Hans Fredy

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Hans Fredy (born November 20, 1861 in Breslau , † after 1932) was a German actor and singer.

Live and act

Fredy studied at the Breslau Conservatory for two years before he was allowed to appear for the first time in 1882 at the Leipzig City Theater "through the mediation of his patron Doctor Förster". After this stage debut he was busy with success and without interruptions. He played 1882 in Bremen, 1883 in Kolberg, 1884 in Bromberg, 1885 in Liegnitz, 1886 at the Court Theater in Neustrelitz, 1887 in Königsberg i.Pr., 1888 in Halle and 1889 at the Residenztheater in Dresden, before finally coming to Berlin in 1890. Here he appeared at the Wallner Theater in Friedrichstadt and at the Victoria Theater on Münzstrasse.

Fredy took on roles in operettas, musical antics and comedies in the field of 'youth and character comedians' and as an operetta tenor.

He made guest appearances abroad. He is known to have performed in Riga between 1891 and 1896 . After a short local interlude in Darmstadt in 1897, he performed in Zurich in 1898 . In 1899 he was committed to Paris and Saint Petersburg , Russia , where he was able to achieve great success; from 1900 he was again listed as a 'comedian and director' in Berlin, where he worked in the following years at the Theater des Westens and the Apollo Theater as well as at “Wolzog's Bunter Bühne”, the legendary “Überbrettl” by Ernst von Wolhaben , occurred.

In 1907 he celebrated his 25th stage anniversary. He was awarded the Golden Medal of Merit for Art and Science by the Royal Italian circolo frentano . In 1910 he was on the stage of the Intimate Theater in Frankfurt am Main, where he also directed, in 1912 he played at the theater of the Herrfeld brothers in Berlin on Alexanderplatz.

After the First World War , he continued to tour between 1918 and 1930. He appeared in all the major cities of the empire: in Hamburg, Cologne, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and in Strasbourg, France, again since 1920 . In 1930, in addition to an actor, he also became the office manager at the Intimate Theater in Nuremberg.

After 1932 it is no longer registered in the German Stage Yearbooks.

Fredy discussed gramophone records at Gramophone / Zonophone and Lindström's Odeon brand early on . He sang and recited his own texts and read those from other authors, e. B. by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy or Heinrich Seidel .

Hans Fredy is not related to the stage and silent film actress Frydel Fredy , whose real name was Fri (e) da Döring.

Audio documents

  • at Gramophone (G & T)
    • 41 100 (mx. 37) a) At the Congo b) Three dreams
    • 41 206 (mx. 2168) The clever little schoolmaster
    • 41 207 (mx. 2169-2) A military instruction lesson (Fredy)
    • 41 184 (mx. 1249) The hilarious Posse (Fredy) (in a duet with Martin Kettner )
    • 42 000 (mx. 2722) The chicken and the carp (Heinrich Seidel)
    • 42 000 (mx. 1607) New Schnadahüpfl
    • 42 672 (mx. 2167) Haven't you seen little Cohn? (Julius Einödshofer - Alfred Schmasow ), open. Berlin 1902
    • 42 916 (mx. 2741) My Anneken. Polka from Schrader. Hans Fredy, Berlin
  • at Zonophone
    • × 3-42 023 (mx. 4 ½ y) Modern Volapük songs
    • × 5-21 000 (mx. 1069) The ticklish (Fredy)
    • × 5-21 001 (mx. 1070) dialect jokes
    • × 5-21 027 (mx. 433 from) A hilarious farce (Fredy)
    • × 5-22 047 (mx. 420 from) Adventure at the masked ball. Hans Fredy, with orchestra.
  • at Odeon
    • 303.572 (mx. XBo 3471) adventure on the masked ball (Fredy), aufgen. April 1910
    • 303.573 (mx. XBo 3472) Lach Couplet (Nestroy)
    • 303.574 (mx. XBo 3473) A hilarious farce. Original lecture by Hans Fredy
    • 303.575 (mx. XBo 3474) The Kitzly (Fredy)

literature

  • Annette Delius: Intimate theater. Investigations into the program and dramaturgy of a preferred form of theater at the turn of the century (= university writings in literature. Volume 19). Scriptor Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1976, ISBN 3-589-20419-2 .
  • Frank Eberhardt: The “Colorful Theater” on Köpenicker Strasse . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 8, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 49-58 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): New Theater Almanach: Theater History Year and Address Book. Verlag FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin (from 1889; from 1915: German Stage Yearbook)
  • Peter Jelavich: Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890–1914. Harvard University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-674-58835-5 .
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens (Hrsg.): Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-598-44088-X , p. 1553.
  • Berthold Leimbach: Audio documents of cabaret 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, unpag., Here also picture of the artist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so Leimbach; Dr. August Förster was director of the Leipzig City Theater from 1876 to 1882. In Berlin, he founded the German Theater with Siegwart Friedmann, Ludwig Barnay and Friedrich Haase , which opened on September 29, 1883.
  2. ↑ so Leimbach and Kutsch-Riemens p. 1553.
  3. ^ New theater almanac: Theater history year and address book. Volume 3, 1892, p. 31 “Fredy Hans, Sch. u. S., Riga "
  4. ^ So Kutsch-Riemens p. 1553.
  5. ↑ cf. Eberhardt p. 50.
  6. ^ New theater almanac: Theater history year and address book. Volume 12 (1901), p. 185: “Fredy, Hans, Komiker u. Director, Med. F. K. u. W., currently as a guest at the Apollo Theater, Berlin SW, Besselstr. 2, II. ", Also Volume 14 (1903), p. 193 and Volume 15 (1904), p. 184, here with the addition" Comedian, formerly Wolzo's Buntes Theater ".
  7. ↑ cf. Neuer Theater-Almanach, Volume 3, 1892, p. 414 “Hans Fredy, Inh. D. Ital. Med. F. K. u. W., Sünderstr. 22 ", and Volume 5, 1894, p. 500:" Hans Fredy, Inh. D. Gold. Med. F. K. u. W. des circolo frentano, Parkstr. 6 “; a picture of the medal at pinomiscione.it
  8. ↑ on this s. Jelavich pp. 151-153, 244-245, 287, and the like. 289 and Delius pp. 128, 154, 157.
  9. ↑ a b Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  10. ↑ Karl Valentin made his first appearance outside of Munich here in 1902. It was here that the Nuremberg premiere of the " Threepenny Opera " by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill took place. After a change of ownership in October 1932, the Intime Theater was closed in April 1933, cf. nuernberginfos.de , Photo at kesten.de
  11. ↑ According to Leimbach, there is also an Edison cast gold roller from him: EGW 16 196 Lach-Couplet (Johann Nestroy), which is confirmed by: Edison Phonograph Monthly , September 1911, p. 19; archive.org
  12. ↑ After acquiring the rights to the Lambert Typewriter Company in 1900 , the company was called Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd. for a few years . abbreviated as G & T. As a trademark, it carried the writing angel , before the well-known dog brand His Master's Voice was used from 1909 .
  13. ↑ Text reproduced at lyrikwelt.de ( memento of the original dated August 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  14. ↑ one-sided; label released at ebayimg.com , aufger. 03/25/17
  15. ↑ up . 1912, to be heard on youtube , there also text
  16. ↑ cf. Chr. Zwarg, ODEON Matrix Numbers - xBo 1000 - 6129 (Berlin: Jumbo), phonomuseum.at (PDF) p. 86.
  17. ↑ label shown. at ebayimg.com , aufger. 03/25/17
  18. ↑ label shown. at ebaystatic.com , aufger. 03/25/17
personal data
SURNAME Fredy, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1932