Hans Pagay
Hans Pagay (born November 11, 1843 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † January 21, 1915 in Berlin ) was an Austrian theater actor , theater director and operetta singer with a long career on German theaters.
Live and act
At the request of the father, the son of a stockbroker should follow in his father's footsteps and first take up a commercial profession. Pagay junior, however, pushed it onto the stage and began his artistic career at the theater as a singer in the choir. The Viennese received his first major engagement in Linz in the 1860s, where he made his debut as an actor with the part of Marinelli in Lessing's Emilia Galotti . In the following years Pagay was cast as a lover and hero, but also as a comedian and turned to the operetta. In 1871 he joined an operetta company, with which he went on tour to (then) Russian Odessa. Back at home, Pagay accepted engagements on small and medium-sized theaters in Austria-Hungary and southern Germany. He was seen, for example, at the Strampfer Theater in Vienna at the side of Alexander Girardi and Josefine Gallmeyer .
1874 came to Pagay for the first time in the German capital to appear at the Viktoria Theater there. In the following years he made the transition from operetta comedian to character actor. He then went to the German provinces and was most recently (in 1887 at the Hannoveraner Residenz Theater) as a director of operas and operettas. In the same year, 1887, Pagay returned to Berlin, where for many years, until his death in early 1915, he was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Otto Brahm and Max Reinhardt . He achieved his first great success there in 1889 as old Ekdal in Ibsen's Die Wildente . Hans Pagay received other important stage roles with the monastery brother in Lessing's Nathan the Wise , the brother Lorenzo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the old gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , the Grand Inquisitor in Schiller's Don Karlos , the Schmock in Freytag's Die Journalisten , Valentin in Raimund's Der Verschwender , the Weiring in Schnitzler's Liebelei , the old farmer in Hauptmann's Before Sunrise , Brother Martin in Costa's play of the same name, and the Hauderer in Anzengruber's The Double Suicide .
Hans Pagay, who is clearly not identical to "Hans Pagay" who starred in Joe May's silent film The Mistress of the World in 1919 , was married to the actress Sophie Pagay , née Berg.
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1725
- E. Marktl: Pagay, Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 288.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 744 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Vossische Zeitung of January 21, 1915 (obituary)
- New Free Press of January 22, 1915 (obituary)
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, edition 1916, p. 173 f. (Obituary)
Web links
- Hans Pagay on Jewish Encyclopedia (online)
Individual proof
- ↑ Most older sources give “1845” as the year of his birth, but festschriften on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1903 and his 70th birthday in 1913 have come down to us.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pagay, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian stage actor, director and operetta singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1915 |
| Place of death | Berlin |