Eugen Moritz Mauthner
Eugen Moritz Mauthner (born July 6, 1855 in Brno , † November 13, 1917 in Wiesbaden ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .
Mauthner was the son of a factory owner, was self-taught as an actor and first appeared as an actor in the role of State Secretary Davison in Maria Stuart in the Leipzig City Theater (under August Förster ). There he played mainly small supporting roles until 1880. After that he often took on the role of a bon vivant . He was at the Meiningen Court Theater from 1880 , at the Burgtheater in Vienna and Berlin, before going to New York City from 1882 to 1884 , where he played in the Germania Theater. After returning to Berlin in 1885, he founded the theater troupe of Berlin actors , with whom he played in East Prussia (Bromberg, Elbing, Graudenz) and Danzig. In the 1886/87 season he was at the Stadttheater Halle and in 1887/88 at the Wallner Theater in Berlin and from 1889 to 1891 he directed the Stadttheater in Elbing and until 1894 the Stadttheater in Liegnitz . In the same year he again founded his own theater company ( Mauthner Ensemble ) in Hamburg , which performed in the USA, among other places. Among other things, he played there in the Carl-Schultze-Theater . In addition, he directed the Stadttheater Barmen from 1895 to 1897 and from 1897 to 1900 he directed the Thalia Theater in Halle and from 1902 to 1912 the New Theater in Halle, which was founded in 1870, reopened after a fire in 1902 and closed after Mauthner's departure (it later served as a storage room).
He was married to the actress Helene Bensberg-Mauthner .
Mauthner translated pieces by John Galsworthy .
literature
- H. Stekl: Mauthner, Eugen Moritz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 161.
- Entry in Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , KG Saur
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 906f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Godazgar, The silent death of the old New Theater , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, March 10, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mauthner, Eugen Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1917 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |