Carl Pfann

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Photo from the last years of life
Pfann as Apollo in the revue Donnerwetter, impeccable .
Gravesite of Carl Pfann and the Pfann family at Hietzing cemetery

Carl Pfann , also Karl Pfann (born January 17, 1874 in Vienna ; † May 7, 1928 in Leoben ), was an Austrian actor , comedian, opera singer ( tenor ) and theater director .

Life

Carl Pfann was born as the son of a meat sucker and his wife Franziska (née Brosch). He was married to the soubrette Suzanne Bachrich-Pfann , the daughter of Sigmund Bachrich and aunt of Albert Bachrich . Their daughter, Elisabeth Morgan, was a dancer . She received her training in stage dance from W. Fränzl in Vienna. Her engagements: Volksoper Vienna , as a stage operator in Teatro Maria Vitoria in Lisbon . From here she came to Arab film. She was married to Ernst Morgan, polyglot and comedian, brother of Paul Morgan . Carl Pfann found his final resting place in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 56, no. 22) in the 13th district of Vienna.

Career

Without ever having taken theater lessons, at the age of 28 he followed the newspaper ad for a traveling troupe who were looking for actors. He made his debut in 1892 as "Poldi Purzbichler" in the Waltz King in Tyrnau . This was followed by more comedian trips through the province. In the same year he received an engagement for choir and small roles at the Landestheater in Laibach. Since an actor suddenly left the engagement, Carl Pfann was given the chance of a solo role and was so good that he was hired as a teenage hero and lover.

His beautiful voice was discovered in the process and in 1894 he was hired as a comedian at the German People's Theater in Prague . In 1895 he made his debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vaudeville Die kleine Schäfchen and enjoyed general popularity here during his five years of activity.

In 1888 he decided to take professional singing lessons and definitely to devote himself to the singing career. In 1901 he performed for the first time as an operetta singer in front of the Viennese audience at the Theater an der Wien . From 1902 to 1904 he came to the city theater in Brno for the first lyrical and youthful heroic tenor roles . In 1904/05 he was engaged at the Carl-Schultze-Theater Hamburg and was then committed by Hans Gregor to the Komische Oper Berlin (1905 to 1908), where he sang major tenor roles from opera literature. Then he returned to operetta and worked very successfully at the Metropoltheater Berlin (with Fritzi Massary ) and other Berlin theaters. At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Vienna. During the war years he sang at the Vienna Citizens' Theater and at the Theater an der Wien, where he continued to appear after the war. In 1922/23 he was artistic director and singer at the theater of Mährisch-Ostrau (Ostrava) and then occasionally appeared as a guest at Austrian operetta stages until 1926. Guest appearances took him to the Frankfurt Opera House during his career . M. (1903), to the Vienna Court Opera (1903), to the Court Theater Karlsruhe (1911) and to the Theater in Bad Ischl (1926).

Theater engagements and guest performances

  • 1892: Comedian trips with various appearances, e.g. B. in Tyrnau (Trnava)
  • 1892–94: State Theater in Laibach (Ljubljana)
  • 1894: German People's Theater in Prague
  • 1894–95: Pilsen Theater
  • 1895: Theater in the Josefstadt
  • 1901: Theater an der Wien, Carltheater, Hoftheater in Wiesbaden, Kurtheater in Baden-Baden
  • 1902–1904: Brno City Theater
  • 1903: Opera House Frankfurt a. M., Vienna Court Opera
  • 1904–1905: Theater Hamburg
  • 1905–1908: Metropoltheater Berlin
  • 1911: Court Theater Karlsruhe
  • 1911–1912: New Operetta Theater Berlin
  • 1912–1914: Theater am Nollendorfplatz Berlin
  • 1913: Theater Vienna
  • 1914–1918: Citizens' Theater and Theater an der Wien
  • 1926: Bad Ischl Theater

Filmography

Carl Pfann as an artistic subject

Exposure by Birgit Graschopf in a Viennese private house. The actor is shown Carl Pfann (1874–1928).

An autograph card from Carl Pfann forms the starting material for a wall exposure created in 2017 by the Austrian artist Birgit Graschopf . This 110 cm × 240 cm work of art is a black and white photograph that uses the wall or the room itself (in a private house in Vienna) as a carrier.

literature

Sound documents (selection)

  • German National Library: Complete collection of Carl Pfann ( https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=carl+pfann )
  • Austrian media library, Fassbinderlied from Boccaccio (City Theater), sound cylinder recording
  • Record: First recordings on Pathé (Vienna, 1903; Berlin, 1911) then on G&T or HMV (numerous titles, mostly from operettas, but also some opera recordings)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Music Lexicon , accessed on February 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Pfann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, comedian, opera singer (tenor) and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1928
Place of death Leoben