Ernst Bach (actor)

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Ernst Bach in 1902

Ernst Bach (* 10. May 1876 in the Bohemian Eger , Austria-Hungary , † 1. November 1929 in Munich ) was a German playwright and actor . His parents were the Prague manufacturer Emil Bach (until 1874: Bauch) and Henriette (Jette) Dannhauser from Hohenems .

Life

Ernst Bach made his debut in 1894 as Natzl ( Im Austragsstüberl ) in Laibach, then was in Abazzia, Freiberg i. S., Breslau, St. Gallen and Zurich. In 1899 he was engaged in the Raimund Theater in Vienna . He came to Berlin in 1903. At the Residenztheater , later at the Lustspielhaus , he played amateur roles in French comedies and began working as a director. Bach was also active as a playwright. In 1909 he met Franz Arnold , with whom he founded the author duo Arnold and Bach . The very productive and successful collaboration ended in 1929 with the death of Ernst Bach.

After the First World War, Ernst Bach became director of the Volkstheater in Munich. He was a member of the board of directors of the German Stage Association and the German Stage Club.

Works

  • The great Theophil (with Wilhelm Popp)
  • The chaste bon vivant , 1921
  • The true Jakob (with Franz Arnold ), Schwank, 1924
  • The daring swimmer (with Franz Arnold), 1926
  • The resigned woman (under the pseudonym Soda Soda), 1911
  • The better half , 1923
  • The journey into happiness (with Franz Arnold), music by Jean Gilbert , 1916
  • The exchanged woman (with Franz Arnold), operetta, music: Walter Kollo , 1925
  • Dolly (with Franz Arnold), operetta, lyrics by Rudolf Bernauer , music: Hugo Hirsch . Prepared for radio by Cornelis Bronsgeest, 1927
  • Women like it (with Franz Arnold), operettas, lyrics by Rideamus , music: Walter Kollo, 1926
  • Hulla di Bulla (with Franz Arnold), 1930
  • Hurray, a boy (with Franz Arnold), 1927
  • Better rich, but happy (with Franz Arnold), 1933, music: Walter Kollo
  • Löwenthal's successor , 1915
  • Spanish fly , 1913
  • Stöpsel (with Franz Arnold), 1926
  • Under business supervision (with Franz Arnold), 1929
  • Week-End in Paradise (with Franz Arnold), 1930

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Clemens Kosel: German-Austrian artist and writer lexicon. Volume 1: Biographies of Viennese Artists and Writers. Edited by Paul Gustav Reinhardt. Society for the graphic industry, Vienna 1902–1906, p. 178.
  2. ↑ See the obituary in the Neue Freie Presse on November 2, 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1929
Place of death Munich