Friedrich Mitterwurzer

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Friedrich Mitterwurzer
Friedrich Mitterwurzer as Shylock, Richard III., Narcissus and Buchbinder Kleister
Friedrich Mitterwurzer's grave

Anton Friedrich Mitterwurzer (born October 16, 1844 in Dresden , † February 13, 1897 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian actor.

Life

His parents were the singer Anton Mitterwurzer and the actress Nanny Herold, who both appeared at the Dresden Court Theater. He was tutored by his mother and made his debut at the Meissen City Theater in 1862 . Further stations were the Stadttheater Hamburg and Graz (1866). In 1867 he appeared at the Burgtheater as Hamlet , as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and as Tellheim in Minna von Barnhelm .

Since 1867 he was married to the actress Wilhelmine Mitterwurzer . In 1869 he moved to the Leipzig City Theater, where he made his debut as Posa in Don Carlos .

At the age of 27, Mitterwurzer was committed to the kk Hof-Burgtheater in Vienna in 1871 . He was a member of this until 1874 and then again from 1875 to 1880.

Between 1879 and 1884 he worked as a director at the Vienna City Theater . He then moved to the Carltheater as director .

He then made quite successful tours through Germany, the Netherlands and the USA from 1886 to 1894. He also performed as a performing artist in various variety theaters . From 1894 he accepted an engagement at the Burgtheater for the third and last time.

Anton Friedrich Mitterwurzer died on February 13, 1897 at the age of 53, presumably due to ingestion of a solution containing chlorinated potassium intended for gargling.

Despite the commitment to demonic characters, Mitterwurzer is considered a pioneer of naturalness in the art of acting . He played the dervish in Nathan the Wise , the title roles in Julius Caesar , Richard III. and Macbeth , Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , Franz Moor in The Robbers , Marinelli in Emilia Galotti , Mephisto in Faust and Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck .

Mitterwurzer had announced in private circles during his lifetime that he would like to be cremated after his death. Accordingly, the corpse was transported by train to the cremation in Gotha , from where the ashes were brought to Vienna by Antony Mitterwurzer , son of the deceased, and the urn on February 27, 1897 in the family crypt in the Grinzing cemetery (group 11, row 3, number 11) was buried. The grave site was later adopted by the City of Vienna as an honorary dedication .

In 1928 the Mitterwurzergasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him, in 1982 the Mitterwurzerweg was named after his wife (Christine) Wilhelmine, born Rennert (1840–1909).

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Mitterwurzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chlor- alkalis . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . Fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 339.
  2. ↑ C. Bernd Sucher: Theaterlexikon , dtv, Munich 1995, 2nd edition 1999, p. 484
  3. ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Mitterwurzer Anton Friedrich . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) The burial of Mitterwurzer's ashes. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 11681/1897, February 28, 1897, p. 6, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
personal data
SURNAME Mitterwurzer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitterwurzer, Anton Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1897
Place of death Vienna