Pilgrimage

Lortzing’s birth-place in Berlin, Breite Straße 12.
This picture is from 1936; the house was destroyed during W.W. II.
Source: Jürgen Lodemann: Lortzing (Göttingen, 2000)
Another picture of Lortzing’s birth-place in Berlin, Breite Straße 12.
Source: Heinz Schirmag: Albert Lortzing, Glanz und Elend eines Künstlerlebens. Berlin, 1995.
Plaque at Lortzing’s birth-place in Berlin.
Destroyed during W.W. II. Source: This picture is taken from Heinz Schirmag: “Albert Lortzing. Ein Lebens- und Zeitbild”. Schirmag didn’t specify his sources.
Osnabrück – Turmstraße/Ecke Jakobstraße.

Osnabrück, Turmstraße 8. In 1827 Lortzing lived in the house most left at the picture, at the corner of the Jakobstraße. On the house was a granite plaque, granted by the “Neuen Liedertafel” from Osnabrück:

“In diesem Hause wohnte im Jahre 1827 Albert Lortzing, geb. 23. Oktober 1801 zu Berlin, gest. daselbst 21 Januar 1851”.

The house is destroyed.
Source: Reinhard Krollage, Albert und Rosina Lortzing. Ihr Wirken in Osnabrück und die Erinnerung an den Komponisten. Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 97, 1992. Photo: W. Eggert.

Osnabrück – Stadttheater
Source: H.C. Worbs: Lortzing
Detmold – Rosental 5
Lortzing’s first house in Detmold; he lived here 1826-1827
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Detmold – Rosental 5 – plaque
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Detmold – Kleine Markt 43

In this house in Detmold Lortzing and his family lived between 1827-1830, with his collegue Gladbach.
On 2 Feb 1830 there was a fire in the house; after this Lortzing moved to the house at the Lange Straße.

Detmold – Lange Straße – Haus des Bäckermeisters Priester

Lortzing lived here from Feb 1830 until 1832.
Source: H.C. Worbs Lortzing

Detmold – Kleine Markt 43 in 2007
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Detmold – Kleine Markt 43 – plaque
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Detmold – Lortzing Monument by Rudolf Hölbe (1901)
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Detmold – Lortzing Monument Detail,
Opening bars of “Undine”
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Detmold – Landestheater
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Detmold – Landestheater (detail)
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Lortzing monument in Bad Pyrmont
©Willem Jager
Postcard with Lortzing monument
Leipzig – Contemporary map with locations of the three houses where Lortzing lived
Source: O.W. Förster & G.M. Hempel – Leipzig und die Freimaurer, Leipzig, 2008
Leipzig – Große Funkenburg
Große Funkenburg – plaque
©George Overmeire 2009
The Leipzig Theatre during Lortzing’s time.
Posted by George Overmeire on February 8th, 2020