Arthur Guttmann (actor)

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Arthur Guttmann (born July 1, 1877 in Baden near Vienna; † June 9, 1956 in Vienna ) was an Austrian stage actor , singer and senior director .

Career

The son of the stage actor Alexander Guttmann received his artistic instruction at the drama school Otto and began his theater career in 1896, the year in which he converted from Judaism to Protestantism, in Budweis in South Bohemia . Before the turn of the century, other theater stations in the kuk province such as Temesvar and Karlsbad followed , before Guttmann appeared in the capitals of Berlin (Residenztheater) and Vienna (Theater in der Josefstadt, Theater an der Wien, Raimund Theater). In Austria's capital, Arthur Guttmann was successful in spoken theater (e.g. as Robert in Gustav Raeder's posse Robert and Bertram), but above all as a singing, character and comedy comedian, and celebrated great successes in the first performances of the operettas Frühlingluft ( Spring Air) in the first decade of the 20th century ( 1903) by Josef Strauss and A Waltz Dream (1907) by Oscar Straus .

Even before the outbreak of the First World War, Guttmann began directing: During this time he can be proven both as a director at the Vienna Colosseum and also as an actor and singer (at Berlin's Metropol-Theater). After the war, Arthur Guttmann concentrated more and more on the work of an opera director. In this position he worked in the 1920s at the Vienna Volksoper as well as at the Zurich Corsotheater. Here, as at other venues, he continued to appear on stage as a singer and actor. In the course of the early 1930s he withdrew more and more from permanent engagements, most recently in the season 1931/32 an engagement as senior director and singer at the operetta of Opava (Czechoslovakia). The converted Jew was no longer employed in the Third Reich; Whether or when Guttmann emigrated between 1938 and 1945 cannot be proven. After the end of the Second World War, the elderly artist found a short job as a singer at Vienna's Raimund Theater, then he retired into private life.

Familiar

Guttmann was married to the actress Marie Guttmann since 1905, who worked as an artist under the name Mizzi Zwerenz . His two brothers were the twins Emil Guttmann and Paul Guttmann , born two years after him , who like him had chosen the acting profession. Arthur Guttmann was given a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to friedhoefewien.at. The online version of the Austrian Music Lexicon names June 3rd
  2. ↑ Arthur Guttmann in Anna L. Staudacher: “reports the exit from the Mosaic faith”

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personal data
SURNAME Guttmann, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1956
Place of death Vienna