Franz von Jauner

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Franz Jauner, before 1870. Graphic by Adolf Neumann .
Franz Jauner around 1870
Franz von Jauner 1899

Franz Xaver Sebastian Jauner , from 1880 Ritter von Jauner (born November 14, 1831 in Vienna ; † February 23, 1900 there ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

biography

Franz Jauner was the son of the court engraver Franz Jauner (1808–1889), who was called "Viennese Cellini " because of his artistry . His two younger brothers were the court engraver Heinrich Jauner (1833–1912) and the administrative officer August Jauner von Schroffenegg (1835–1907). Since Franz Jauner did not want to take over the business and profession of his father, he started as an accessist in the kuk Hofburg Chancellery (administration) after finishing school .

Musically gifted, Jauner had piano lessons since childhood and was musically encouraged by the composer Simon Sechter . He actually made his stage debut as a teenager in the role of a silent page in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Die Huguenots . In 1854 he then got his first speaking role in August von Kotzebue Who knows what it's good . Heinrich Laube got to know him and engaged him; between February 15, 1854 and June 30, 1855, Jauner was part of the Burgtheater ensemble . His official farewell performance was William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ; he gave the Oberon in it .

In 1855 Jauner accompanied the actress Amalie Haizinger and her daughter Luise Neumann on their tour to the Grand Ducal Court Theater Karlsruhe and the City Theater in Mainz . There he separated from them and went to Paris to the Théâtre-français . After a few smaller guest appearances here and there, Jauner was committed to the Dresden court theater in autumn 1858 . There he met the actress Emilie Krall (1831–1914) and married her the following year.

In 1871 Jauner was engaged by the theater director Anton Ascher at the Carltheater (Vienna) and was able to successfully perform there on April 25, 1871 in the role of "Beethoven" in Adelaide . With effect from July 1, 1871, Jauner succeeded Ascher as director of the Carltheater and managed it until 1878. His sensational successes in this office brought him to the management of the Vienna Court Opera on April 9, 1875 .

Since he was still contractually committed to the Carltheater, this was provisional; from the spring of 1878 he held this office in full. He made his official debut in 1875 with Verdi's Requiem . Through Jauner's initiative and mediation, Richard Wagner's tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung was performed for the first time in Vienna (outside Bayreuth ) . As great as Jauner's artistic merits were, his business successes were so little. With effect from June 30, 1880, he resigned . Nevertheless, it was whether his achievements of Emperor Franz-Joseph I of the Iron Crown medal awarded. According to the statute of the order, this also resulted in an ennoblement ( knighthood ).

With effect from June 1, 1881, Jauner took over the Ringtheater and brought the fairy tale comedy Die Rattenfänger von Hameln ( Victor Ernst Nessler ) to the stage on October 1 of the same year . Ludwig Ganghofer was brought in by him as a dramaturge in the same year . In addition to his work as a theater director, he also appeared again as an actor from this time; u. a. as "Count Almaviva".
On December 8, 1881, during the performance of Hoffmann's stories ( Jacques Offenbach ), a fire broke out in the theater and 386 people died (according to Ludwig Eisenberg there were almost 1,000 deaths). As the director in charge, Jauner was charged with negligence and sentenced to three years in prison, but was released by imperial pardon after only a few weeks in prison.

After that, Jauner stayed away from the theater until in 1884, together with Camillo Walzel and Alexandrine von Schönerer, he again took over the management of the Theater an der Wien . But after a short time he gave up this office again. In 1892 he was involved in several productions on the occasion of the "International Theater and Music Exhibition Vienna". In the season 1894/95 he gave a successful guest performance as an actor in Hamburg and afterwards he took over the management of the Carltheater in Vienna again. On October 4, 1895, he brought the operetta Das Modell ( Franz von Suppè ) to the stage for the first time with great success .

Since here, too, the artistic success was much greater than the financial, Jauner undertook an actor tour to Moscow and Saint Petersburg ; he occasionally acted as a conductor. But the debts got bigger and bigger and on the occasion of a cash check on February 23, 1900 only the immediate bankruptcy of the theater could be determined. Jauner then committed suicide by shooting himself that same day. He found his final resting place in the Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof in Vienna (group RG, number 57).

Roles (selection)

Honors

In 1955 the Jaunerstraße in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, page 476, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Jauner, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jauner, Franz Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1900
Place of death Vienna