Gustav Braunmüller (actor)

Gustav Braunmüller (born July 14, 1811 in Lahr , † August 5, 1881 in Vienna ) was a German child actor , theater actor , director and comedian .

Life

Both father and mother were considered good actors. The father was a Nassau court opera singer , a popular tenor and died on April 26, 1818, his mother, first heroine and lover, also at the Nassau court theater, married a second time after the death of her husband in 1820 with the actor and then known and popular, dramatic writer Theodor Rabenalt .

Braunmüller, who accompanied his parents on their hiking trains, entered the stage early. He played his first child role as "Otto" in debt , later "Walter Tell", and others. a. Actually, his parents were against him devoting himself to the theater, but they couldn't dissuade him from it.

For the first time in a larger role he appeared in Strasbourg as "Viktorin" in The Orphan and the Murderer by Ignaz Franz Castelli (1826). Since he was very popular, he also received “Brackenburg” in Egmont , the “Husch” in page pranks and other roles in which he had ample opportunity to prove his talent. From 1827 to 1829 he was a member of the Innsbruck Theater , then was engaged in Laibach, Linz, Salzburg, Karlsbad etc. and played a comic role in the latter city for the first time, as the sudden departure of a member forced him to " Schneider ”in Lumpaci . Due to the great success he achieved with this, he decided to continue to show his art in this subject. He worked in Karlsbad from 1835 to 1843, then took on the role of senior director at the Lviv Theater, where he again appeared exclusively in the hero and lover subject.

In 1846 he came to Alois Pokorny at the Theater an der Wien . There he made his debut with a lot of luck in He must go to the country , but after two years of successful work he was won over by Carl Carl for the Leopoldstädter Theater , where he appeared for the first time as an "advocate" in the play Das Pasquil on Easter Monday 1848 and soon became one of the most popular Became members of this stage. When Johann Nestroy took over the management, Braunmüller had to play antics at first, but soon switched to character roles, in which he also found great recognition.

When Karl Treumann opened his new theater in 1860, almost everyone in the Karltheater joined him, including Braunmüller. When this theater burned down in 1863, however, he moved back to his old artist's asylum. His last heroic role was in 1864 the “Wetter von Strahl” in Käthchen von Heilbronn . Despite his increasing age, he remained loyal to the Karltheater under all changing directors, to which he belonged until his death as one of the bravest, most dutiful and popular members.

In March 1875 the Viennese people insisted on sending him innumerable proofs of admiration and recognition on occasion of his 50th anniversary as an actor. At the end of the 1870s he began to be ailing, asthmatic conditions gradually undermined his almost unbelievable constitution until he died on August 5th, 1881.

His demise was genuinely mourned all over Vienna , but especially in Leopoldstadt , where he was particularly popular and suffered in all circles not only as an artist but also because of his honest, honest demeanor.

Braunmüller was married to the local singer Louise Fränzl , who was popular at the time and who survived him. One son of this marriage was the dialect poet Gustav Braunmüller .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 124, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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