Carl Friese (actor)

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Carl Friese in Woodruff by Johann Strauss (Son) (1896)

Carl Friese (born October 5, 1855 in Ödenburg , Kingdom of Hungary , † May 9, 1912 in Dresden ) was a German stage actor and director of Hungarian origin.

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Carl Friese was the son of the actor Carl Adolf Friese (1831-1900). His professional life began as a banker, but he also appeared on the club stage. After two years he finished his banking career and he now devoted himself professionally to stage arts without having had any artistic training. Carl Friese gave his first role as a professional actor on October 19, 1876 with the role of Stieglitz in the play The Pastor's Cook in Krems, Lower Austria. After six years of acting career at different venues in the Austro-Hungarian province (u. A. In Chernivtsi, Opava, Marienbad), it developed as a character comedian in, came Friese 1882 to Vienna and became a member of the ensemble of the Theater in der Josefstadt , went below Year for one season at the Residenztheater in Hanover, in 1884 at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg, and then back to Hanover. In 1886 Carl Friese went to the United States to appear on German-speaking stages: he began his work there at the Thalia Theater in New York and traveled from here to around 40 American cities, including San Francisco. In Reno he appeared as Colonel Ollendorf in Der Bettelstudent in front of cowboys and Indians.

Returning to Europe in 1890, Friese played again in Hanover and after another two years, after a detour to Berlin, joined the ensemble of the Dresden Residenz Theater , to which he belonged for twenty years until his death. When the theater reopened on September 16, 1893, its Dresden premiere was the Beernboom in the operetta Lachende Erben , in which Rudolf Dellinger also made his debut for more than twenty years as orchestra leader and musical director. On December 9, 1893, he was Director Springer in the German premiere of Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride on the stage. Numerous antics, comedies and operettas followed: for two decades it was to dominate the artistic face of the theater. His repertoire included a. the Mylius in the Hochtourist , the Valentin in Raimund The Spendthrift , who Wieberg in Paul Lindau's comedy The two Leonore , the Wodrow in trip to the moral , Rommel in Messrs sons and the councilor Müller in Educated people . Although not trained as a singer, he convinced in his operetta roles.

Shortly after his farewell performance at the Residenz Theater - Friese wanted to move to the Albert Theater - he died suddenly. According to the information in the 1913 Theater Almanac, which appeared the year after his death, Friese was on stage in 5760 performances with 428 different roles in the Dresden Residenz Theater. Eisenberg's biographical lexicon of the German stage from 1903 stated that Friese proved to be “an experienced, stage-savvy, thinking artist who is not only concerned with the effect”, but “with artistic tact and understanding towards the solution of his tasks presented figures in the sense and also in the interest of the author.

At the Residenz Theater in Dresden, Friese was also active as a director of comedies, comedies, antics and operettas, such as Lehár's The Merry Widow in 1906 , he became vice director of the house alongside Alexander Rotter .

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 290 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 70.
  • New Theater Almanac 1913, ed. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members. Obituary p. 167.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Hagemann, the year 1879 given in the Eisenberg is based on a printing error
  2. ↑ a b New Theater Almanach 1913, p. 167
  3. ↑ Eisenberg, p. 291.
  4. ^ Peter Herrich: On the history of the musical folk theater in Dresden. In: Peter Gunold (Ed.): 50 years of the Dresden State Operetta - 225 years of musical folk theater in Dresden . Läzer, Weimar 1997. Without ISBN, p. 28.
  5. ↑ Andreas Schwarze: Metropolis of pleasure. Musical folk theater in Dresden from 1844 until today. Saxophon, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-943444-59-9 , p. 47.
  6. ↑ Eisenberg, p. 291
  7. ↑ Andreas Schwarze: Metropolis of pleasure. Musical folk theater in Dresden from 1844 until today. Saxophon, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-943444-59-9 , p. 46.
personal data
SURNAME Friese, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Ödenburg , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1912
Place of death Dresden