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Josefstadt Theater
The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply ''Die Josefstadt''. Following remodeling and rebuilding in 1822 — celebrated by the performance of the overture '' Die Weihe des Hauses'' ('Consecration of the House') by Beethoven — opera was staged there including Meyerbeer and Wagner. From 1858 onwards the theatre gave up opera and instead concentrated on straight theatre and comedy. Major figures in musical and theatrical history connected with the house *Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner conducted there. * Johann Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund were connected to the theater as actors and poets. * Johann Strauss I performed in the Sträußelsälen. *In 1814, Ferdinand Raimund had his Vienna debut as Franz Moor in ''Die Räuber'' by Friedrich Schiller. *In 1822, '' Die Weihe des Hauses'' composed and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wien Theater Josefstadt
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Pepita De Oliva
Josefa Durán y Ortega (1830–1872), known by the stage name Pepita de Oliva, was a Romani Spanish dancer who performed across Europe, popularizing Spanish flamenco dancing and costumes. Despite her official marriage with her dance teacher Juan Antonio Gabriel de la Oliva in 1851, the following year she established a partnership with the British diplomat Lionel Sackville-West with whom she had five children. Her daughter Victoria gave birth to the English writer Vita Sackville-West, who in 1937 published a biography of her grandmother titled ''Pepita''. Biography Born in Málaga in 1830, Josefa Durán y Ortega was officially the daughter of Pedro Durán and Catalina Ortega although it was rumoured her father was the celebrated nobleman Francisco de Borja Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, the 10th Duke of Osuna. Her mother was a gypsy washerwoman and dealer in old clothes who had earlier performed in a circus, while Pedro Durán, a barber, died in a street brawl when she was six. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Schenk
Otto Schenk (born 12 June 1930, in Vienna) is an Austrian actor, and theater and opera director. Life and career Schenk was born to Catholic parents. His father, a lawyer, had Jewish roots and therefore lost his job after the Anschluss in 1938. His mother was Italian. Schenk studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, and started his acting career at the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Wiener Volkstheater, and as a comedian at Vienna's Kabarett Simpl. His directing career began in 1953 at small Viennese venues, later leading him to renowned stages like the Burgtheater, the Munich Kammerspiele or the Salzburg Festival, staging plays by William Shakespeare, Arthur Schnitzler, Ödön von Horváth, Anton Chekhov. In 1957, Schenk directed his first opera, Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'' for the Salzburg Landestheater. His breakthrough as an opera director came in 1962 with Alban Berg's ''Lulu'' at the Theater an der Wien. This production was later moved to the Vienna State Opera, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Stoß
Franz Stoss (28 May 1909 – 21 June 1995) was an Austrian stage. film and television actor. He also worked as a theatre director. Following the Second World War he worked at the re-opened Vienna Burgtheater.Yates p.236 Selected filmography * ''Sarajevo'' (1955) * ''The Model Boy'' (1963) * ''Condemned to Sin'' (1964) * ''I Learned It from Father'' (1964) * ''Trouble with Trixie'' (1972) * ''Der Bockerer ''Der Bockerer'' is a 1981 Austrian drama film directed by Franz Antel. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where Karl Merkatz won the award for Best Actor. The film was also selected as the Austrian entry for the Bes ...'' (1981) References Bibliography * Yates, W.E. ''Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History, 1776-1995''. Cambridge University Press, 2005. External links * Franz Stoß(in German) from the online-archive of the Österreichischen Mediathek 1909 births 1995 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male television a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Steinboeck
Rudolf Steinboeck (1908–1996) was an Austrian theatre actor and director. He also directed and acted in several films.Fritsche p.232 & 246 He was married to the actress Aglaja Schmid. He headed the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ... from 1945 to 1953. Selected filmography * '' The Priest from Kirchfeld'' (1937) * '' The Other Life'' (1948) * '' Dear Friend'' (1949) References Bibliography * Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity ''. Berghahn Books, 2013. External links * 1908 births 1996 deaths Austrian film directors Austrian male film actors Austrian male stage actors Actors from Baden bei Wien {{Austria-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Lothar
Ernst Lothar (; 25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer. He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller is a very common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans Müller-Einigen, by contrast, added a surname. Biography Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the Czech Republic) and died in Vienna. Amongst his novels was ''The Angel with the Trumpet'' and ''The Prisoner''. In 1943 he published ''Beneath Another Sun'' (Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, N.Y.). It was evidently written in exile as the foreword is signed Colorado Springs, Summer, 1942. He was married to the Austrian actress Adrienne Gessner. They both fled into exile following the 1938 Anschluss. Honours and awards * Bauersfeld Prize (1918) * Gold Medal of Vienna (1960) * Kainz Medal (1960) * Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1961) * Literature Prize of the City of Vienna (1963) * Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as '' Laura'' (1944) and ''Fallen Angel'' (1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with themes which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (''The Man with the Golden Arm'', 1955), rape (''Anatomy of a Murder'', 1959) and homosexuality (''Advise & Consent'', 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had several acting roles. Early life Preminger was born in 1905 in Wischnitz, Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Vyzhnytsia, Ukraine), into a Jewish family. His parents were Josefa (née Fraenke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Reinhardt (theatre Director)
Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century. In 1920, he established the Salzburg Festival with the performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's '' Jedermann''. Life and career Reinhardt was born Maximilian Goldmann in the spa town of Baden near Vienna, the son of Wilhelm Goldmann (1846–1911), a Jewish merchant from Stupava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and his wife Rachel Lea Rosi "Rosa" Goldmann (''née'' Wengraf; 1851–1924). Having finished school, he began an apprenticeship at a bank, but already took acting lessons. In 1890, he gave his debut on a private stage in Vienna with the stage name ''Max Reinhardt'' (possibly after the protagonist Reinhard Werner in Theodor Storm's novella '' Immensee''). In 1893 he perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Pokorny
Franz Pokorny (22 December 1797 – 5 August 1850) was an Austrian theatre manager. He owned two leading theatres in Vienna, the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Theater an der Wien, where he staged notable productions. Life Early career Pokorny was born in (now in the Czech Republic), son of a teacher. He was initially a school assistant. In 1819 he moved to Vienna, where he was a clarinettist at the Theater in der Josefstadt. In 1822 he was a clarinettist at the civic theatre in Pressburg (now Bratislava in Slovakia), where from 1827 he directed the theatre orchestra."Pokorny, Franz (1797-1850), Theaterdirektor" ''Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon''. Retrieved 19 December 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Carl
Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director. Bernbrunn was born illegitimately to Maria Anna Alxinger and Karl Andrä Bernbrunn. Maria Anna was the wife of the poet (1755–1797), and daughter of army supplier Abraham Wetzlar, who converted to Catholicism in 1776. Bernbrunn became an actor in Munich with Carl Weinmüller. In 1822 Bernbrunn became the director of the in Munich, and in 1826 became the director of the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. In 1838 he bought the Theater in der Leopoldstadt which he ran in parallel to the Theater an der Wien until 1845. The Theater in der Leopoldstadt was demolished and rebuilt in 1847 under the name Carltheater. In Munich Bernbrunn married Margarethe Lang. Bernbrunn died from a recurrent stroke on at Bad Ischl. See also *Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Hensler
Karl Friedrich Hensler (1 February 1759 – 24 November 1825)Karl Friedrich Hensler data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 25 January 2018. was a dramatist and theatre manager in Vienna. Life Hensler was born in in 1759, son of a ducal physician of Württemberg, and studied at the . From 1784 he lived in Vienna, where an uncle sought to obtain a diplomatic career for him. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Jarno
Josef Jarno (born 24 August 1866 in Pest, died 11 January 1932 in Vienna) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. He was the older brother of opera composer Georg Jarno. Life Jarno made his debut in the ''Lehártheater'' in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria. He visited the place every summer for the following 14 years. In 1897 a summer theatre was initiated in Bad Aussee, with Jarno as its first director. Two years later he gave up the job and moved to Vienna to take over as the leader of the Theater in der Josefstadt. In Vienna, Jarno could carry out his ideas about modern drama. He brought plays by Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Arthur Schnitzler and George Bernard Shaw onto the stage. Jarno worked in Vienna until 1923. During this time, he married the actress Johanna Niese. The German-language premiere of Ferenc Molnár's suburban legend ''Liliom'' (1913) featured Jarno in the title role and made the play a worldwide success. In 1905, Jarno bought the Fürst-Theater and lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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