Emil Guttmann

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Emil Guttmann (born September 23, 1879 in Baden near Vienna , † March 26, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , director and singer .

Life

The son of the actor Alexander Guttmann (1851–1889) began his artistic career in 1897 at the Stadttheater in Wiener Neustadt . He then worked for a long time in Graz , where he also appeared as a stage manager. Guttmann was also able to direct in the Styrian capital for the first time in 1902. In the following year he followed a call to Innsbruck , another year later (1904) he finally found himself in Vienna to take up an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Emil Guttmann, who worked as an actor and singer, stayed in the Austrian capital for the next 30 years until the end of his life in the spring of 1934. Guest tours led him a. a. to Berlin . Guttmann later advanced to senior stage director (e.g. at Vienna's City Theater) and was temporarily senior director and deputy director at the Theater an der Wien .

After several forays in front of the camera, Emil Guttmann returned to the stage for the last time in the 1933/34 season and fulfilled an obligation as an actor at the Theater an der Wien and Stadttheater, now managed by Hubert Marischka . He committed suicide in March 1934.

His twin brother was the stage actor Paul Guttmann , another brother was the actor Arthur Guttmann (1877-1956).

Emil Guttmann was married to the soubrette Polly Koss . He rests in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Vienna Central Cemetery (II, 136), next to his wife.

Filmography

as an actor
  • 1916: The tramp
  • 1918: The two Meier
  • 1918: His Highness, the tramp
  • 1923: Heaven full of violins
  • 1930: Viennese hearts ( Archduke Otto and the laundress )
  • 1931: Excursion into life, Consul Wiedemann
  • 1931: Purple and Wash Blue, The Master of Ceremonies
  • 1931: The Bridegroom Widow, Huntington Attorney
as a screenwriter
  • 1930: Kaiserliebchen

literature

  • Franz Planer: The Yearbook of the Vienna Society 1928. Vienna 1928, p. 128.
  • Michael Wolf, Klaus Edel: Selected celebrity graves at the Evangelical Cemetery Simmering. An introduction to the history of the cemetery and a guide to selected celebrity graves, published by Evangelischer Presseverband in Österreich, Vienna 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Guttmann, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1934
Place of death Vienna