Emil Sautter

Emil Sautter (born October 29, 1864 in Zurich ; † January 27, 1954 ) was a Swiss theater actor , theater critic and author of numerous comedies in Zurich dialect . With the play Hans Böheim, the Pauker von Niklashausen on the early modern preacher Hans Böhm , he gained the reputation of a innovator of dialect theater.

Life

As a high school student, Emil Sautter played in performances by the Zurich Dramatic Society . After graduating from high school in 1883, he studied acting in Berlin.

Between 1886 and 1892 he had engagements for one season each at the City Theater Hanau , the Princely Theater Sondershausen , the City Theater Basel , the City Theater Frankfurt an der Oder , the Princely Reussian Theater in Gera and the City Theater Zwickau . He ended the latter prematurely in order to get into his father's business.

From 1909 to 1936 he wrote under the abbreviation ES as an art critic and theater reviewer for the Zürcher Post .

Since 1919 he has been writing comedies and Schwänke in Zurich dialect for the Zurich Dramatic Society , of which he was an honorary member .

Stage works (selection)

• 1919: De Schrämmli
• 1919: D'Wonig
• 1920: The honest scoundrel . The one-act act was ascribed "remarkable approaches to social criticism".
• 1922: Anna Matter
• 1922: D 'Schlumpf family
• 1925: 's ward
• 1927: De sächzgischt Giburtstag , first performance for the 60th anniversary of the Dramatic Society founded in 1866 . The one-act dialect comedy was the model for the operetta " Der Schwarze Hecht " by Paul Burkhard and Jürg Amstein.
• 1927: 's Schmätterlingsnetz
• 1931: homecoming
• 1934: Hans Böheim, the timpanist from Niklashausen , premiered on October 27th at the St. Gallen City Theater .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Emil Sautter in the Theater Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on November 16, 2016
2. ↑ Zurich dialect literature in the Schweizerisches Idiotikon , accessed on November 16, 2016