Adolf Klein (actor)

Adolf Klein in Berlin in 1904

Adolf Klein (born August 15, 1847 on the Wieden near Vienna ; † March 11, 1931 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor and theater director.

Life

Despite his father's resistance, Adolf Klein attended the Vienna Conservatory and made his debut in Baden near Vienna in 1865 . During the years of his development as an actor, an unsteady wandering life led him to Bucharest . In 1871 Klein received an engagement at the Nationaltheater Berlin , in 1872 he played in Königsberg , 1873 to 1876 in Leipzig and from 1876 to 1880 after a successful guest appearance as Mephistopheles and Wallenstein (Schiller) at the Hoftheater Berlin.

From there, Franz von Dingelstedt appointed him to the Burgtheater as a character actor . He also worked at the Hamburg Thalia-Theater from 1884 to 1885 , from 1885 to 1886 in Moscow , from 1886 to 1889 at the Court Theater in Dresden , then again in Berlin at the Court Theater, the Lessing Theater and the New Playhouse . From 1910 Klein headed the German Theater in Łódź . Klein was married to the Berlin court theater actress Jenny Frauenthal .

The virtuoso, versatile actor Klein appeared at the Düsseldorf Goethe Festival and in numerous guest performances that took him to London . Adolf Klein played in leading roles, among others, Franz Moor , the Wurm , the Duke of Alba , King Lear , Nathan the Wise , the perjurer , Iago and Shylock . In the film he could be seen in Ernst Lubitsch's Anna Boleyn in 1920 .

Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 157 f., ( Digitized ).
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 511, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Stage and world. Vol. 9, No. 3, 1906, ZDB -ID 213830-x .
Neue Freie Presse , November 18, 1915 and March 13, 1931.
Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch, Vol. 28, 1917, ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 130 and Vol. 43, 1932, p. 105 ff.
Direction of the Burgtheater (Ed.): 175 years of the Burgtheater. 1776-1951. Continued until summer 1954. Tomanek, Vienna 1955.
Klein, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 376.

personal data
SURNAME	Klein, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wieden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1931
Place of death	Berlin