Ben Tieber

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Ben Tieber's Apollo establishment
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Ben Tieber's grave (Simmering fire hall)

Ben or Bernhard Tieber (born February 18, 1867 in Pressburg , Kingdom of Hungary , today Slovakia , † May 29, 1925 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater director. He always used the spelling Tieber (on the announcements of the Apollo Theater as well as in the Vienna address book this spelling is exclusively found), but also appears in the specialist literature with Tiber .

Life

Ben Tieber was director and from 1905 owner of the Vienna Apollo Theater (today Apollo Cinema ), which opened in 1904 in Vienna's 6th district, Mariahilf . In the following years, the last years of peace in Austria-Hungary before the First World War, which was triggered off in 1914, he made the Apollo the most popular variety theater in Vienna. The Apollo was able to overtake its biggest competitor, the Ronacher establishment in the 1st district, not least by specializing in "nudities".

On August 17, 1911, Ben Tieber bought the Otto Wagner villa at Hüttelbergstrasse 26 in the Hütteldorf district of the 14th district, Penzing , from Otto Wagner , a Viennese architect who was already very well known at the time , and lived there until his death. The building was later referred to as Villa Wagner I, as Wagner had Villa Wagner II built on the neighboring property in 1912/1913 and thus became Tieber's neighbor until his death in 1918. Tieber's villa later belonged to the painter Ernst Fuchs, who died in 2015 .

death

Ben Tieber has an urn grave for the duration of the cemetery at the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (Dept. MR, Group 46, Grave 1G). According to the electronic grave search of Friedhofe Wien GmbH, Tieber's ashes were buried in this grave on November 28, 1925. There is no evidence as to why six months elapsed between death and urn burial.

The Apollo Theater, named Tieber's underage children, was sold in 1928 to the then city -owned cinema operating company Kiba and is still operated as the Apollo Cinema today.

Fiction

According to the Scottish Austrian historian Andrew Barker, Heimito von Doderer's novel No. 7 / II , published in 1967 from the author's estate , appears as a fragment . The Border Forest is the Jewish theater entrepreneur in the guise of the Hungarian variety owner Béla Tiborski.

Vincenz Ventruba , with whose experiences the novel begins after his return from the First World War , meets an elderly gentleman in a café in the suburbs who seemed to have established his office here . He was a variety director, and everyone in Vienna knew the name of his establishment. The building was used as a reserve hospital during the war. Everything now had to be renovated. ... Nobody could be received there. And my house is too far out , said Mr Béla Tiborski.

Tiborski would have liked to employ the younger Ventruba as a personal assistant, but Ventruba already has plans in his father's industry. One of Ventruba's comrades in question is also eliminated. Finally Tiborski's office was available again, and he no longer officiated in the café and stayed away at all.

Ben Tiber is mentioned in Karl Kraus ' monumental drama " The Last Days of Mankind " in the scene of the two commercial councilors in front of the Hotel Imperial (3/7). In the magazine " Die Fackel " Kraus writes: "It was the time of the great change of the world and the idol Ben Tieber, the only one who was given power over the Moloch, commanded life and death. Then someone stepped before him who was a singer of war, and said: Save me. You alone decide whether I will live or die […]. But Ben Tieber said: Stay with me and you shall have a good life. And made him a dramaturge. " [Torch 437, November 1916, p. 108]

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Lehmann's General Housing Gazette for Vienna , 1925 edition, Volume I, p. 1901 = p. 1941 of the digital representation of the Vienna Library
  2. ↑ Andrew Barker: Depth of Time, Shallows of Years. Heimito von Doderer's 'Austrian Idea' and the 'Athens Speech'. In: Kai Luehrs (ed.): Eccentric inserts. Studies and essays on Heimito von Doderer's work , de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, p. 263 ff.
  3. ^ Biederstein-Verlag, Munich 1967, licensed edition for the Gutenberg Book Guild, Vienna, p. 13 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Tieber, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tieber, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1925
Place of death Vienna