Carl Brandt
type: Item
description: Theatermeister in Berlin
alternative label: Brandt, Karl
alternative label: Karl Brandt
Type of information: Person
date of birth: 1828-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date of death: 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z
country of citizenship: Germany
Source URL: p025809.htm
father: Elias Friedrich Brandt
Note: distinguished himself, beyond his activities as machinist at the Munich Court Theatre, machinist and theatre master at the Königstädtisches Theater Berlin and head of the mechanical engineering department at the Court Theatre Darmstadt, particularly through the technical equipment of Richard Wagner’s operas, such as the “Ring of the Nibelung” for the opening of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre in 1876. During this period Darmstadt was a kind of reloading point for technical expertise, not least because of the Brandts. It was here that Carl Brandt, like his “teacher” Ignaz Dorn, passed on his technical knowledge to such influential names as Carl Lautenschläger (1843-1906), “inventor” of the revolving stage, and it was also here that Josef Hoffmann came to work on Wagner’s “Ring”.In the Bayreuth projects Carl supported his brother Fritz
Field: stage mechanics and sets
Wikidata source: Q65144974
Importance: Not rated
Has worked in: Germany