Alfred Hauck
Alfred Hauck , actually Alfred Hock ( October 5, 1856 in Prague - January 31, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German theater actor as well as opera and operetta singer ( tenor ).
Life
The merchant's son Hauck was also supposed to take up the profession of a merchant, but he began to be interested in the theater at a young age and took his first acting steps at the St. Niclas lover's theater in Prague. After Hauck had trained his singing voice at the “Gesangsschule Prag” (Singing School Pivoda) with František Pivoda and had drama lessons from the actors Emil Hüvart and Carl Beringer , he began his stage career at the City Theater Pressburg , where he was on January 27, 1877 "Marasquin" made its debut in Giroflé-Girofla .
In the same year he came to Gera, where he was offered many comedy roles in addition to “ Mortimer ” and “ Kosinsky ”, but was also successful as “Paris” in Schöne Helena , “Ange Pitou” in La Fille de Madame Angot and tried other singing roles. He found his next engagement in Elbing (1878–79), then came to Brno in 1879, the following year to Teplitz-Schönau (1879–80), Olomouc (1880–82) and finally to Karlsbad. Commitments to Hanover (1882–83 at the Residenztheater), Bremen (1882/83), 1884 to the German Theater in Budapest, then to Bad Ischl and 1884–1885 to the Wilhelm Theater in Cologne followed.
In 1886 he worked in Hanover and in the same year, on October 1, 1886, joined the association of the Frankfurt City Theater for the subject of tenor buffo (play tenor and character tenor ) and character comedian. In this engagement, Hauck was able to show his great versatility in drama and comedy , in the farce and in the Frankfurt Opera . He sang and played roles such as " Papageno ", " Mime ", " Fra Diavolo ", Remendado in Carmen , " Schneider Zwirn " and the servant "Valentin" in the spendthrift . He appeared in Lortzing operas, such as Georg ( The Armourer ) and Veit ( Undine ), and played Wenzel in Smetana's The Bartered Bride . In November 1902 he worked in Frankfurt in the role of cellar master in the world premiere of Humperdinck's opera Sleeping Beauty .
His main field of activity, however, remained the operetta. Here Hauck had an extensive repertoire. It included, for example, the roles / plays The Mikado (as Ko-Ko), The Fledermaus , The Obersteiger , The Bird Trader (as Adam), Poor Jonathan , Fatinitza , The Merry War , The Bells of Corneville by Robert Planquette and The Doll . "In these and many other operettas, Alfred Hauck provided the Frankfurt audience with countless happy and enjoyable hours through his magnificent, degaged, brisk and characteristic playing and his sympathetic, effective singing performance."
Hauck also appeared as a guest in Mainz, Mannheim, Bonn and Gmunden . In 1899 he appeared at the Wiesbaden Court Theater , and in 1906 at the Kassel Court Theater .
In order to create a second professional mainstay, Alfred Hauck bought a Havana cigar import shop in downtown Frankfurt . In 1916 he said goodbye in Frankfurt, where he sang “Prince Basil” in the Lehár opera Der Graf von Luxemburg . Alfred Hauck is an honorary member of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. Hauck died in January 1935 at the age of 79.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 402 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
- Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters from the beginning of German acting to the present . Compiled by OG Flüggen. 1st year. A. Bruckmann's Verlag, Munich 1892. p. 131.
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 806 (entry under Alfred Hock)
- Karl-Josef Kutsch / Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3: Franc – Kaidanoff, S. 1988. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
Web links
- Alfred Hauck at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Kosch, Eisenberg mentions the unreliable year 1860
- ↑ Eisenberg, p. 402
- ↑ Honorary Members of the Städtische Bühnen , accessed on November 20, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauck, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hock, Alfred (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and opera and operetta singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1935 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |