konrad ernst ackermann

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(baptized Feb. 4, 1712, Schwerin, Mecklenburg died Nov. 13, 1771, Hamburg) German actor-manager. After training with a theatre company that specialized in German adaptations of French plays, he led a troupe on tour throughout Europe in the 1750s. He became known for domestic drama and for playing roles that combined the comic and the sentimental. In 1765 he opened a theatre in Hamburg, considered the first German national theatre, and later turned its management over to his stepson, Friedrich L. Schröder (1744-1816), who brought Shakespeare to the German stage. See also actor-manager system