Edmund Loewe
Edmund Loewe , also led by Edmund Löwe , (born September 16, 1870 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † after 1923) was an Austrian actor and operetta singer (tenor) on domestic, German and international stages as well as a silent film director .
Life
As a young civil servant, Loewe discovered his talent for entertainment and appeared as a couplet singer at club events . Thereupon he decided in 1890 to take up the profession of actor and singer and appeared in Teplitz-Schönau for the first time in front of a paying audience. Further engagements followed in the kuk province, including Prague. Born in Vienna, his first German engagements took him to the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater in Berlin and to the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg. As a member of the Ferenczy Ensemble, Edmund Loewe came to New York in 1896. In the season 1897/98 the singer and actor was a member of the ensemble at the Theater an der Wien , then went as a guest to the Grazer Landestheater and at the turn of the century (1899–1901) again to the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg. In 1902 Loewes was again committed to the Theater an der Wien. During these years Loewe celebrated his greatest successes as an operetta singer but also as an actor in theater antics. The best-known pieces of those years with him include " The Doll ", " The Geisha ", " The Opera Ball " and " The Poor Girl ".
Loewe returned to Germany in the first decade of the 20th century and performed at the Dresden Central Theater . Back in Berlin, Loewe made a largely unnoticed film debut in 1912 in the drama European slave life . In the same year he performed again abroad, this time in Amsterdam. Edmund Loewe spent most of the First World War in the German capital, where he not only acted in theater, but also appeared again in front of the camera. Shortly before the end of the war he returned to Vienna and began directing the Hugo Held film for the first time. Back in Berlin in 1920, Loewe appeared this time at the Thalia Theater and continued his work as a film actor in Europe until 1923. In 1924 he went to the United States, where his son Frederick Loewe later became a successful composer.
Filmography
- 1912: European slave life
- 1915: The Collins Diary
- 1915: tears of children
- 1916: BZ-Maxe & Co.
- 1918: The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar (Director)
- 1919: night asylum
- 1919: Charly Bill
- 1919: sins of parents
- 1919: The bastard
- 1919: Don Juan, six parts (director)
- 1919: The strangler of the world
- 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg
- 1920: The Devil's Elixirs (also director)
- 1921: Memoirs of a valet, two parts
- 1921: The house on Dragonergasse
- 1921: The Secret of the Four Days (also screenplay)
- 1922: Lucifer
- 1922: Marie Antoinette
- 1922: The juggler of Paris
- 1923: In the shadow of the mosque
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 617, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1272
Web links
- Edmund Loewe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edmund Loewe at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Edmund Loewe at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loewe, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leo, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and operetta singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1923 |