Carl von Carro (actor)
Carl Felix Ritter von Carro , pseudonym Karl Carode , ( March 22, 1846 in Vienna - March 22, 1896 ibid) was an Austrian theater actor , reciter and playwright .
Life
Carro, son of an Austrian Uhlan riding master, who in turn was the son of Johann von Carro , left commercial school at 17 and became an actor.
After twelve years at various German and Austrian provincial theaters, he was engaged at the Hofburgtheater as the successor to Franz Kierschner . But after only a year he left to work as a reciter , especially the Anzengruber folk plays. He made this known with several hundred lectures in Germany, reciting freely from memory.
In 1896 he took over the artistic direction of the Kurhaus theater in Göggingen near Augsburg . In 1890 he turned back to reciting, travels took him to Milan. From 1890 to 1891 he worked as a lecturer at the Graz Opera Institute of Anna Mayer-Peyrimsky .
His nephew Heinrich von Carro was also an actor.
Works (selection)
- His spirit to the ancestor
- The Goargescheite
- The cartel rag
- The caretaker's desk
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 152, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Carl von Carro in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b baptismal register Vienna Reformed City Church, tom. IV, p. 94 ( facsimile )
- ↑ Death book Vienna Reformed City Church, tom. VIII, p. 99 ( facsimile )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carro, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carro, Carl Felix Ritter von (full name); Carode, Karl (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater actor, reciter and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1896 |
| Place of death | Vienna |