Anton Anno

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Anton Anno (1886)

Anton Anno ( March 19, 1838 in Aachen - December 1, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor , theater director , theater director and playwright .

Life

Anno, the son of a theater servant, first completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker. In 1856 he started his late father's profession at the Stadttheater Aachen. In 1860 he was stage manager at the Stadttheater Cologne , where he took on his first small roles. In 1859 he had his first engagement as a young comedian at the Stadttheater Elberfeld . Stations at the theaters in Heidelberg , Pforzheim , Offenbach am Main and Kreuznach followed .

In 1862 he accepted an engagement at the Stadttheater Basel , in 1863/1864 a guest engagement with the Saxon theater association Vereinigte Theater Plauen / Zwickau / Glauchau / Meerane .

In 1866 he was a character comedian in Detmold . From 1867 to 1872 he played at a variety theater in Berlin and was then director and first comedian at the Stadttheater Cologne until 1874. It was followed by Breslau (1874) and Hamburg (1875). From 1876 to 1880 he played at the court theater in Saint Petersburg . Then he went to Dresden and became a royal court actor there . In 1884 he took over the management of the Berlin Residenztheater , in 1887 he finally became director of the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin and in 1889 artistic and technical director of the Lessingtheater in Berlin.

He was married from 1876 to the actress Charlotte Frohn († 1888), then to the actress Lilli Petri (real name Amalie Peterson ; born August 10, 1863 in Cologne; † September 20, 1915 in Baden near Vienna ).

Anton Anno died on December 1, 1893 at the age of 55 in Berlin during a wave of flu . He was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . His grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • Ballet shoes , posse
  • The Hörner family , Schwank
  • The two Reichenmüller , Volksstück

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 28.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Decision (ed.): German stage almanac. 28th edition, Berlin 1864, p. 234.
  2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 294. ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Der Morgen. Wiener Montagblatt, 1916-07-17, page 10. Retrieved on March 13, 2017 .
  4. ^ Anton Anno † . In: Allgemeine Zeitung of December 5, 1893, morning edition, pp. 1–2.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Anno, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, theater director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1893
Place of death Berlin