Franz Wallner (actor, 1810)
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Franz Seraph Wallner , actually Franz Seraph Leidesdorf , (born September 25, 1810 in Vienna , † January 19, 1876 in Nice ) was an Austro-German theater actor , director and writer .
Life
Wallner, son of an imperial Austrian silver keeper, was originally called Leidesdorf, but because he found the name too tragic for lively roles, he changed his name. Later he and his family were allowed to use the name permanently by Emperor Wilhelm I with the permission of the sovereign.
Wallner embarked on a theatrical career in Krems in 1830 , worked at the Josephstädtischer Theater in Vienna from 1836 and, after appearing on numerous stages, took an engagement in Saint Petersburg in 1848 , made another guest appearance from 1850 until he became director of the theater in 1851 Freiburg im Breisgau and Baden-Baden , in 1853 the theater in Posen and in 1855 the then completely dilapidated Königsstädtische Theater in Berlin . He had the new Wallner Theater built there and opened it on December 3, 1864. The Wallner Theater was a very popular folk theater and maintained the Berlin posse .
Franz Wallner leased the theater to the actor Theodor Lebrun in 1868 , partly to allow his poor health to recover, partly to satisfy his desire to travel, which he knew how to use as a writer with skill. He died on the way in Nice , but was buried in Berlin at Cemetery I of the Georgen Parish in Greifswalder Strasse .
His wife Agnes Wallner (1824–1901), foster daughter Robert Blum , was an excellent actress in elegant conversational roles. His son Franz also became an actor.
The Wallner Theater went under in the Second World War. It was east of Alexanderplatz on Wallner-Theater-Strasse . The whole area, which was badly damaged by the war, was cleared and a high-rise housing estate was later built on it. In 1953, a new street was named Wallnerstrasse .
Works
- From the old comedian's diary . Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1845
- Review of my theatrical career and my experiences on and off the stage . Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1864
- From distant shores. Travel sketches from Constantinople, Egypt and Sicily . Otto Janke, Berlin 1872
- Over land and sea. Travel pictures from north and south . Otto Janke, Berlin 1874
- Poor Josy . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 15. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 147-167. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wallner, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1885, pp. 286–292 ( digitized version ).
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Wallner, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 762-764.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 1089 ff., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Wallner . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 369.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallner, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallner, Franz Seraph (full name); Leidesdorf, Franz Seraph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German theater actor, director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1876 |
| Place of death | Nice |