Anton Ascher (actor, 1820)

Anton Ascher (born July 15 and July 16, 1820 in Dresden ; † April 21, 1884 in Meran , Austria-Hungary ) was a German theater actor , director and director .

Life

Anton Ascher's gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery mentions July 16, 1820 as his date of birth.

After the death of his father, who was strictly against his career aspirations, Ascher took dramatic lessons for the stage from Ludwig Tieck on the advice of court actor Ferdinand Heckscher . In 1838 Ascher made his debut in a small supporting role in Hainichen. Appearances in Meißen, Bautzen and Zittau followed. In 1839 he played at the court theater in Wiesbaden and Hanover. From 1840 to 1844 he began working at the Dresden Court Theater. Hamburg followed in 1845, Königsberg from 1846 to 1848 and the Kassel court theater from 1848 to 1849. From 1848 to 1860 he was chief director at the Friedrich Wilhelm Theater in Berlin and from 1860 to 1863 director and actor at the Quai Theater in Vienna . When it burned down in June 1863, he moved to the Carl-Theater in Vienna , where he was director from 1866 to 1872. He then moved to Merano, where he died in 1884. As a result, he was transferred to Vienna and buried at the Israelite Cemetery of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1, Group 6, Row 29, Grave Number 56). Ash was with the actress since 1848 Wilhelmine Rubenow married

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Ascher, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 32 ( digitized version ).
Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 35f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Ascher, Anton. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 208-209.

Individual evidence

↑ Anton Ascher's gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery mentions July 16, 1820 as his date of birth.
^ According to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien : "born July 16, 1820 Dresden" ( Genteam , "Index of the Jewish registers WIEN and Lower Austria".)

personal data
SURNAME	Ascher, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater actor, director and director
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1884
Place of death	Meran , South Tyrol

[1] Anton Ascher's gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery mentions July 16, 1820 as his date of birth.

[2] According to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien : "born July 16, 1820 Dresden" ( Genteam , "Index of the Jewish registers WIEN and Lower Austria".)