Hansi leader

Hansi Führer: On the phone. Postcard from 1907

Johanna "Hansi" Führer (born January 12, 1879 in Vienna , Empire Austria-Hungary ; † April 1, 1955, same place, Republic of Austria ) was an Austrian folk singer ( soubrette ) and actress .

Life

Hansi Führer first appeared in the restaurant “Zur Hühnersteige” at a young age in her native Vienna. She was then engaged at Danzer's Orpheum . She then played in Gabor Steiner's entertainment establishment “ Venice in Vienna ”, whose operetta soubrette she stayed for four years, and at the Ronacher . She then went freelance in the artistic field and ran her own establishment, the “Bradyschen Wintergarten”, in Ballgasse (Vienna, 1st district) for three seasons from 1908–1910; From October 1, 1910, she played in the opening performance of the cabaret "Himmel". In June 1913 she appeared in the "Varietétheater Reklame" in Vienna. She also went on a tour of Germany.

In those years, Führer was in a relationship with Kapellmeister Fritz Zeillinger . In the Viennese cabaret and cabaret stage " Orpheum " she met the art piper Fred Kornau (aka Siegfried Kohn), whom she married. With him she went on tour through North America , Cuba and Mexico . From 1914 to 1921 she lived with her husband in the USA . In New York she founded the establishment "Weißes Rössel", where she put on German-American cabaret programs.

In 1921 she returned to Vienna and until 1929 belonged to the “Ensemble Ullmann”. She then played in circuses , variety shows and operetta stages in Germany . She appeared at Circus Hagenbeck, where she performed in a cage with 50 bears . In the 1930s she again toured Cuba and the United States. In 1938 she said goodbye to the stage in "Stalehners Etablissement" ("Stalehner").

Führer, who embodied the type of “reschen, hard Viennese woman”, had its heyday in the years before the First World War . She was considered to be the “stir-up” of noble Viennese society and the nobility. Between 1904 and 1908, the Odeon record company made numerous recordings with Hansi Führer. Her chansons, songs and couplets, including the successful Hansi Führer on the phone , were considered "paprika" and "daring". In the Austrian silent film Lerchenfelder Sonntagskinder (1925) she played alongside Robert Rainer and Leo Wintermayer ; it was her only film appearance.

Führer died in April 1955 in Vienna, the city of her birth. After losing her fortune, she lived largely impoverished. She was buried in the Gersthof cemetery . She was played by the Austrian actress and singer Gretl Schörg in the Austrian post-war film Die Deutschmeister (1955) .

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume I: A - Hurka. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1953, ISBN 978-3-907820-27-8 , p. 511.
• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 1: A – F. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028460-7 , p. 417.
• Uwe Harten : Leader, Hansi (Johanna). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .

Web links

• Hansi Führer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hansi Führer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Hansi leader ; Vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Birgit Peter, Robert Kaldy-Karo (ed.): Artist life on forgotten ways. A search for traces in Vienna . LIT VERLAG, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50499-9 , p. 54. (books.google.de)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Elisabeth Th. Fritz, Helmut Kretschmer (Ed.): WIEN. Music history. Folk music and Wienerlied . LIT PUBLISHER. Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8659-X , pp. 262/263. (books.google.de)
3. ↑ The music titles from Führer, Hansi . Compilation. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
4. ^ In spring in the moonlight in the Prater in Vienna. Detail with Gretl Schörg as Hansi leader. Retrieved March 22, 2018.