Leopold Jacobson

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Leopold Jacobson (born on the thirtieth June 1873 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary , died on 23. February 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was an Austrian-German librettist , journalist , writer , theater - critics , screenwriter and a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Jacobson, who came from the Austro-Hungarian Crown Land of Bukovina (today's Ukraine), came to Vienna at a young age and began his literary career there at the end of the 19th century as a journalist. He wrote a number of theater and operetta reviews and made it to the position of editor-in-chief of the New Vienna Journal . In addition, he began to write texts for operetta works, including Ein Walzertraum , where he wrote the libretto to the music of Oscar Straus together with Felix Dörmann . It would become Jacobson's most famous work. When it premiered on March 2, 1907 at the Carltheater in Vienna , “ A Waltz Dream ” was the first Austrian stage work to be captured on celluloid and later filmed several times (including in Berlin and Hollywood). As a result, he worked with the most famous operetta composers and librettists of his time and created a number of other works, such as The Brave Soldier , On Orders of the Empress , A Ball Night , The Dancing Countess .

Jacobson was also active as a playwright. In 1922 he worked on the screenplay for Friedrich Feher's production The Memoirs of a Monk , an adaptation of Franz Grillparzer's novella The Monastery at Sendomir , his only contribution to the film.

Even after the annexation of Austria in 1938, he continued to live in Vienna as a Jew , namely at Königsklostergasse 7 in Mariahilf , before he was later moved to a "collective apartment" at Ferdinandstrasse 4/9 in Leopoldstadt . In August 1942 Leopold Jacobson was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There he died in the morning hours of February 23, 1943 - the official cause of death: sepsis (blood poisoning).

Jacobson's texts survived the Nazi rule and were sung by great musicians such as Peter Alexander , Rudolf Schock and Dagmar Koller even after the liberation .

Works

Libretti
  • A waltz dream . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Felix Dörmann . Music by Oscar Straus . Premiere: March 2nd, 1907, Carltheater .
  • 1908: The brave soldier . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Rudolf Bernauer . Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: November 14th, 1908, Theater an der Wien .
  • The chaste Barbara . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Rudolf Bernauer. Music by Oskar Nedbal . Premiere : October 7, 1911, Raimundtheater , Vienna.
  • By order of the empress . An operetta idyll from the cozy old days in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky . Music by Bruno Granichstaedten . Premiere: March 20, 1915, Theater an der Wien .
  • The beautiful stranger . Operetta in two acts and an episode by Leopold Jacobson and Leo Walther Stein. Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: January 15, 1915, Carltheater.
  • Why is it now? Burlesque operetta in three acts. Together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Edmund Eysler . Premiere: July 5th, 1916, Metropoltheater, Vienna
  • Moth . Singspiel in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: March 13, 1917, Wiener Stadttheater .
  • A ball night . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: October 11, 1918, Johann Strauss Theater .
  • The devil of love . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Julius Bistron . Premiere: October 17th, 1919, Wiener Komödienhaus .
  • Village musicians . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: November 29, 1919, Theater an der Wien.
  • What girls dream . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Leo Ascher . Premiere: December 6, 1919, Raimundtheater, Vienna.
  • The dancing countess . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Robert Bodanzky. Music by Robert Stolz . Premiere: February 18, 1921, Wallner-Theater , Berlin.
  • The woman in purple . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Rudolf Oesterreicher . Music by Jean Gilbert . Premiere: December 21, 1923, Wiener Stadttheater.
  • Hollywood wedding . Operetta in four pictures. Libretto together with Bruno Hardt-Warden . Music by Oscar Straus. Premiere: December 21, 1928, Johann Strauss-Theater, Vienna.
  • One night . Operetta in three acts. Libretto together with Rudolf Österreicher . Music by Robert Stolz. Premiere: December 23, 1927, Theater an der Wien.
Plays and film scripts
  • The lonely island . Waver in three acts. Together with Rudolf Bernauer. Francke, Berlin / Dessau 1905.
  • Lady Hamilton . Comedy in four acts. Together with Leo Walther Stein. Drei Masken-Verlag, Munich 1913.
  • A monk's memoir . Film script together with Friedrich Fehér . 1922.

literature

  • Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna 1955.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon . Biographical and bibliographical manual. Second volume, Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 888.
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 393 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1873 is mentioned on his death certificate as well as when he left the Israelite religious community (1896). The literature usually mentions the year 1878.
  2. ↑ At birth he was Austrian, as a result of the annexation of Austria in 1938 now German (see also information on citizenship on the death certificate)
  3. ↑ Adolph Lehmann 's general housing advertisement from 1938, Volume 1, 1st part. Residents of Vienna. P. 513 Jacob - Jäger ( 1st column at the bottom ) , accessed on February 26, 2017.
  4. ^ Collective apartment in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ^ Discography Jacobson's œuvre on discogs.com
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German librettist, journalist, writer, theater critic, screenwriter and a victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto