Biography

Adolphe L'Arronge was born on March 8, 1838 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Mein Leopold (1914), Mein Leopold (1924) and Hasemanns Töchter (1920). He died on May 25, 1908 in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

His best known work is the 1873 comedy play My Leopold which has been adapted into numerous films.

Adolphe L'Arronge was a German playwright and theatre director.

Adolph L'Arronge studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. He subsequently worked as a theater conductor in Cologne, Königsberg, Würzburg, and Stuttgart, among other places. In 1866, he became director of the Kroll Opera in Berlin. At the same time, he wrote his first plays.

In 1881, Adolph L'Arronge purchased the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater in Berlin, which until then had primarily staged light entertainment such as farces. He had it renovated and reopened it in 1883 as the Deutsches Theater (German Theater). This theater now focused primarily on classical dramas. With his concept of blending these with popular folk plays, he transformed it into one of the most important German-language theaters of its time. He earned the reputation of being the most successful theater director and playwright of the Wilhelmine era.

In March 1908, Adolph L'Arronge celebrated his 70th birthday in Berlin. At the numerous festivities held in his honor, he appeared to be in excellent health. However, during a visit to his daughter in Breslau, L'Arronge soon contracted influenza, which was quickly followed by other ailments. His health deteriorated so severely that he was admitted to the Binswanger Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance. There he seemed to be on the road to recovery, but then died of heart failure on the evening of May 24, 1908, in the presence of his wife and their son.