Adolf Karl Kühns

Adolf Karl Kühns , also Adolf Kühns , (born May 17, 1868 in Prague , † July 1, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German singer, actor and director.

Life

The son of actor Carl Paul Volkmar Kühns (1832–1905) began his professional career as an actor and singer in the 1888/89 season at the Deutsches Theater in Sarajevo . He was engaged there as the second operetta tenor. With his versatile talent, he could be used in the productions as a young singing comedian or, because of his extended voice, as a tenor baritone. The engagements took him through Austria and Eastern Europe to Russia. From the 1905/06 season, Adolf Kühns took on not only his role as an actor but also the position of senior director at the Central Theater in Berlin . In the 1910/11 season he went to the German Theater in New York and worked there as an actor and chief director of the operetta. His employment ended after a year and he returned to Europe. He spent the time before and during World War I on various stages in Austria and Germany. In 1917/18 Adolf Kühns took on additional administrative responsibility for the first time as deputy director of the Eden Operetta Theater in Aachen . In this capacity he was last mentioned at the Deutsches Theater in Hanover . He spent the end of his life in Berlin.

Engagements

• 1889/90: Sarajewo (Bosnia), German Theater
• 1891/92: Marburg a. Dr. , City Theatre
• 1892/93: Trieste , Anfiteatro Fenice
• 1893/94: Wiener Neustadt , KK private city theater
• 1894/95: Chernivtsi (Ukraine), City Theater
• 1895/96: Kronstadt (Transylvania, Romania)
• 1896/97: Magdeburg , Wilhelm Theater
• 1897/98: Olomouc , Royal City Theater
• 1888/89: Pressburg , Royal Free City Theater
• 1899/00; Teplitz-Schönau , City Theater
• 1900/01: Innsbruck , City Theater
• 1901/02: St. Petersburg , Aquarium-Theater
• 1902/03: Reichenberg (Böhmern), city theater
• 1904/05: Pressburg, Royal Free City Theater
• 1905-08: Berlin, Central-Theater
• 1908-10: Düsseldorf , Apollo Theater
• 1910/11: New York (USA), Deutsches Theater
• 1911/12: Aussig (Bohemia), subsidized city theater
• 1913/14: Vienna , Viennese operetta ensemble (tour)
• 1914/15: Hanover, Mellini Theater
• 1916/17: Berlin, Berlin theater ensemble
• 1917/18: Aachen, Eden Operetta Theater
• 1919/20: Altona , Flora Theater
• 1920/21: Berlin, Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater
• 1921/22: Hanover, Schauburg (New Operettenhaus)
• 1922/23: Dortmund , Olympic Operetta Theater
• 1923/24: Hanover, Deutsches Theater

literature

• Th. Dez (Ed.): Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , Berlin. Volume 57 (1893).
• New Theater-Almanach , Ed .: Cooperative of German Stage Members, 1 (1890) - 25 (1914).
• German stage yearbook. Ed .: Cooperative of German Stage Members, 26 (1915) - 42 (1931)
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon , Klagenfurt and Vienna. 2nd volume 1960, page 1124.
• Paul S. Ulrich: Theater, dance and music in the German stage yearbook , volume 1. Verlag Arno Spitz.