Heinrich Jantsch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinrich Jantsch (1892)

Heinrich Jantsch (born March 7, 1845 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † February 5, 1899 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

The newly built Jantsch Theater on a recording around 1900.

Heinrich Jantsch enjoyed a good middle-class commercial training at a young age. He was trained as a stenographer at the Technical University of Vienna , and he also studied oriental languages . He then worked as a stenographer in a Viennese law firm; he also worked at the Vienna Regional Court. In 1862 he founded the Stenographisches Wochenblatt , a newspaper that he published once a week until 1866.

In parallel to his journalistic activities, Jantsch learned the trade of an actor at the Sulkowsky Theater . In 1866 he was in the role of Count Essex in Marburg for the first time on the theater stage. Jantsch then worked at numerous companies in German-speaking countries, including Sopron , Linz and Ulm . In 1869 he became a member of the court theater in Meiningen and, with the support of Duke Georg II, completed his acting training in Berlin . After a short engagement at the city theater in Halle , Jantsch was also active as a theater actor in Budapest and Mainz from 1872 to 1874 .

From the 1870s onwards, however, Jantsch was not only successful as a theater actor, but was also responsible as artistic director and director. In 1875 he opened the Viktoria Theater in Frankfurt am Main , headed the City Theater in Danzig from 1882 to 1886 and then worked in Halle for three years, from 1886 to 1889 . In Danzig he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Eugenia crowned lion . From 1890 to 1892 he was director of the theater in Königsberg and then, only for a few months, of the theater in Moravian Opava .

In 1893 Jantsch returned to Vienna. He took over the Fürst-Theater in Wurstelprater , named after his predecessor Johann Fürst , which was reopened on September 1, 1898 as the Jantsch-Theater . Initially designed for the staging of cheerful plays, it quickly developed into a house where socio-political critical theater productions also found their place. Jantsch managed the house until his death, at the age of 53.

Jantsch was married twice. In 1870 he stepped in front of the altar with the actress Margarethe von Ziegler . The two had a daughter, Margarethe Jantsch , who also became an actress. After the early death of his wife in 1878, he married the castle actress Olga Lohse in 1882 , with whom Jantsch had a son. In 1890 his second wife also died. In addition, Jantsch had another illegitimate daughter, a woman whose name was not known.

In 1963 the Jantschweg in the Wurstelprater in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The new Jantsch Theater in the Prater. (With illustration). In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 22/1898 (3rd year), August 14, 1898, p. 7, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 473, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The alleged daughter was born in 1879, after the death of her alleged mother. This is a misinformation on the part of Eisenberg, in reality the daughter was illegitimate, see:
    Hilde Haider-Pregler:  Jantsch, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 347 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Jantsch, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1899
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary