Gabor Steiner

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Gabor Steiner in 1897

Gabor Steiner , Hungarian Steiner Gábor (born May 28, 1858 in Timisoara , Austrian Empire , † September 9, 1944 in Beverly Hills ) was an Austrian theater director.

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Gabor Steiner was born as the son of the actor and theater director Maximilian Steiner . He worked for a year in a textile company, but also supported his father as treasurer at the Theater an der Wien from 1877–1883 and later his brother Franz , who succeeded his father as director. In 1883 he took over the management of the Residenztheater in Hanover himself , but soon afterwards went to his brother in Dresden and shortly afterwards to Berlin , where he leased the Walhalla operetta theater. But he returned to Vienna and became artistic director of the Carltheater in Leopoldstadt. In 1887 he married the ballet dancer Maria "Mizzi" Hollmann (1864–1937) and had a son with her, Max , (1888–1971). In the same year he founded a concert and theater agency as well as a publishing house, and in 1889 also a newspaper ( Neues Theaterblatt ), but in 1890 he had to give it all up due to unprofitability. A few years later Steiner resigned from the Israelite religious community and accepted the Protestant faith. In 1892 he became director of the Hans Wurst stage in the Vienna Rotunda .

From 1894 Steiner leased the "Kaiserwiese" at the beginning of the Vienna Prater from the English The Assets Realization Co. and had the amusement park Venice in Vienna built there with the help of the architect Oskar Marmorek and the painter Ferdinand Moser based on the example of Venice in London Opened in 1895. He also (unsuccessfully) opened a cinema and a vending machine buffet. The construction of the Ferris wheel was a particular concern of his , but he was not related to its later owner Eduard Steiner . In 1897 he became director of Danzer's Orpheum , for which he was able to obtain both a theater and a variety theater concession .

In 1908 Steiner got hit by high investments and costs - u. a. because of the production costs for a performance of Paul Lincke's Der Schlager der Saison - in financial difficulties. He had to file for bankruptcy and hand over the management of his company to Hugo Fürst and Alfred A. Winter.

From 1909 to 1912 he was director of the Ronacher establishment , then he took over the management of Venice in Vienna again, but he accumulated even more debts and went bankrupt again. He escaped from Vienna to avoid the guilty imprisonment that was customary at the time , and he separated from his wife.

From 1913 he stayed in London, Switzerland and New York, and in 1921 he returned to Vienna. With ambitions to become director of the Theater in der Josefstadt , he failed, and so he contented himself with founding a publishing house that mainly brought out pieces of music. Steiner's situation did not get much better, however, and so he received financial support from his son Max, who had become a successful composer in the USA . As a Jew, he had to leave Vienna on September 7, 1938 and subsequently flee to his son in the USA. In Hollywood he married his son's secretary, Erna Mundelius (1880–1943). He died in Beverly Hills in 1944 and found his final resting place in Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Glendale (California)

Honors

The Gabor-Steiner-Weg in Vienna- Leopoldstadt , a footpath in the Kaiserwiese, was named after him in 1987.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabor Christian Steiner at findagrave.com
  2. ↑ maps.google.de , Gabor-Steiner-Weg, 1020 Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Gabor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Timişoara , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1944
Place of death Beverly Hills