Wolfgang Heribert Dalberg

Dalberg, Wolfgang Heribert, Reichsfreiherr von (Herrnsheim, Worms, 1750-1806, Mannheim), was from 1778 to 1803 Director (Intendant) of the Mannheim National Theatre. He wrote a number of ephemeral plays and also made adaptations of Shakespeare, Southern, and Cumberland. Dalberg accepted Schiller's Die Räuber for first performance (1782), and later Fiesco and Kabale und Liebe (both 1784). Though he appears in an unsympathetic light in Schiller's correspondence, he was a capable director.