Adolf Mylius

Adolf Mylius , born as Adolf Laban (born March 30, 1847 in Pressburg , Austrian Empire , † December 29, 1919 in Traunstein , German Empire ), was a German-Austrian stage actor .

Live and act

Mylius, a self-taught actor from today's Slovak capital Bratislava , had briefly studied in Vienna before he decided to act. He made his debut as a theater mime on Easter Monday of 1867 in Linz . The classic ox tour through the province followed, and Mylius worked on Austro-Hungarian stages such as those in Krems, Trieste, Olomouc and Lemberg. At the beginning of the 1870s, theater engagements followed in Germany, where he could be seen in Regensburg, Düsseldorf, Würzburg, Strasbourg and Bremen.

Back in his kuk homeland, Mylius went to Brno in 1877 and one year later followed an engagement at the Wiener Stadttheater, where he asserted himself in the subject of hero and first lover. In 1880 he went to the Leipzig City Theater and in 1882 to the Hamburg City Theater, to which he would remain loyal as a character interpreter for the next three decades until his retirement in 1912. Even before he turned 60, Mylius said he had played over 1,000 roles in both classic and modern pieces. He was also involved in a central position in the Cooperative of German Stage Members. After his retirement, he moved to Traunstein in Upper Bavaria with his wife and adopted son.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 62.
• German Stage Yearbook 1921, hrgg. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members. Obituary p. 131 f.