Alois Prasch

Alois Prasch (born October 8, 1854 in Böhmisch Leipa , † February 22, 1907 in Prague ) was an Austrian actor, director, theater director and writer.

Life

Alois Prasch was born as the son of the Austrian public prosecutor Johann Prasch. After attending grammar school in Prague , he was supposed to complete a law degree, but went to Vienna against the will of his parents to pursue a career in theater. There he received acting training from Strakosch and at the Eduard Kierschner Theater Academy and made his debut in Linz in 1875 . In 1876 he was committed to the court theater in Meiningen , in 1878 to the city ​​theater in Frankfurt / Main and in 1879 as the first youthful hero to the court theater in Karlsruhe . In Frankfurt he became a member of the Freemason Lodge Socrates for steadfastness . In 1885 he founded the Süddeutsche Hoftheater-Ensemble, with which he went on tour as director and senior director. In 1889 he was appointed director of the city ​​theater in Strasbourg and in 1892 he was appointed artistic director at the court and national theater in Mannheim . In 1895 Prasch went to Berlin, where he took over the management of the Berlin theater . From autumn 1897 to 1898 he also took over the management of the Theater des Westens . With this double function he had taken on himself artistically and financially and had to resign as early as 1898 from the management of the Theater des Westens and in 1899 also from the Berlin theater. From 1903 he headed the Theater des Westens again, but in 1906 he had to give up his position for good and retired into private life. He was married to Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg . Their son was Rolf Prasch .

Leading roles

Egmont , Mortimer , Faust , Hamlet , Melchthal , Prince von Homburg and Tasso .

Publications

Fairy tales and festivals, among others: Sleeping Beauty (1891), Hohenzollern (1894), The brave little tailor (1895) and Struwwelpeter (1902), Der Jägerwirt (drama, music by Hans Steiner, 1887), songs of a wandering bird (1899)

literature

• Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8, KG Saur, Munich 1999, p. 53.
• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 5, 6th edition. Leipzig 1913, p. 335.
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2003–2018, ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4 .