Albert Hirsch (actor)

Albert Hirsch (born June 29, 1841 in Vienna ; † August 11, 1927 there ) was an Austrian folk singer and actor.

Life

Albert Hirsch first worked as a primary school teacher before appearing in small roles at the Theater an der Wien from 1870 . Later he was employed in the theater in der Josefstadt and in the theater under the Tuchlauben. Because of the low salary he left the theater, became a folk singer and founded his own folk singer society, which initially consisted only of family members. Hirsch worked as a director, comedian, director and resident poet and had a concession for a musical theater.

He was married to the actress Minna (née Hänlein; 1843–1913), who was initially an actress in Ingolstadt and from 1872 appeared as a singer in Karl Drexler's Singspielhalle in Vienna.

One of his sons was the Viennese song composer Adolf Hirsch .

plant

Around 200 folk scenes, mainly from Jewish folk life.

literature

• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . (Volume 3). Chernivtsi 1928, p. 109.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 196.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 549.
• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . (Volume 2). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .