Anton Anno (19 March 1838 in
Aachen
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...
- 1 December 1893 in Berlin) was a German
theatre actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...
,
theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...
, and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
.
Hans-Jürgen Mende
Hans-Jürgen Mende (19 May 1945 in Berlin-Kreuzberg – 21 September 2018 in Rostock) was a German historian. He was a lecturer in the history of philosophy at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. After the reunification of Germany (1989/90) he ...
: ''Lexikon Berliner Begräbnisstätten''. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, , .
Life
Anton Anno was the son of a theatre attendant. He first completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker. In 1856 he started his late father's job at the Aachen City Theatre. In 1860 he was stage manager at the Cologne City Theatre, where he took on small roles. In 1859 he had his first engagement as a young comedian at the Stadttheater Elberfeld.
Works
*Ballet shoes, posse
*Family Horns, Schwank
*The two Reichenmüller, Volksstück
Literature
* Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century. List, Leipzig 1903, p. 28.
References
External links
Anton Annoin the
Online Bavarian Musicians Lexicon (BMLO)
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19th-century German male writers
19th-century German writers
People from Aachen
1838 births
1893 deaths