Hubert Marischka

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Hubert Marischka (1910)

Hubert Marischka (born August 27, 1882 in Brunn am Gebirge ; † December 4, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , operetta singer (tenor), director and screenwriter .

Life

Grave site in the cemetery in Hietzing

The son of the kuk court purveyor (profession: gilders ) Jiří (Johann) Marischka and his wife Berta were initially a carpenter. He trained as a singer and began his career in 1904 as an operetta singer at the city theater of St. Pölten in The poor Jonathan by Karl Millöcker . As an actor he was initially successful in Brno, as Danilo in 1906 in The Merry Widow . On July 27, 1907, he sang at the world premiere of Der fidele Bauer by Leo Fall in Mannheim. On December 23, 1908, he first appeared at the Carltheater in Falls The Divorced Woman in Vienna. After that he was particularly successful at the Theater an der Wien . Later he worked there as a director, mainly for operetta performances. In 1923 he was promoted to director of the Theater an der Wien. On February 28, 1924 he premiered the operetta Gräfin Mariza here . At the end of the twenties he sang in One Night in Venice at the Vienna State Opera .

He made contact with the new medium of film at an early stage. Here he worked as an actor, director and screenwriter. His films can often be assigned to the genre of Viennese film . He made well-known films with Hans Moser , such as We ask for a dance (1941) or Der Herr Kanzleirat (1948). Marischka was temporarily director of the Vienna City Theater and the Raimund Theater , head of the Papageno music publisher and professor of operetta at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts .

In 1907 he married Felicitas Anna "Lizzy" Léon († 1918), the daughter of Victor Léon . He had three children with her: the future actress Lisl (1908–1945), Viktor (* 1915) and the future director Franz (1918–2009). After Lizzy's death, Marischka married the daughter of the theater director Wilhelm Karczag , Lilian "Lilly" Karczag, and had the children Georg Marischka and Tassilo (* 1928) with her . After the divorce he was briefly married to Juliane, his third wife, during the war. In 1946 he got his fourth marriage with the actress Trude Basch-Havel.

Hubert Marischka's honorary grave is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 66, row 10, number 1 A) in Vienna.

In 2009, the Marischkapromenade in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him and two of his brothers, Carl and Ernst. 

His brother was Ernst Marischka .

Libretti

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suicide of the Kommerzialrat Franz Marischka. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt (No. 24273/1932), April 11, 1932, p. 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the four Marischka brothers see: Suicide of the Kommerzialrat Franz Marischka. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt (No. 24273/1932), April 11, 1932, p. 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
personal data
SURNAME Marischka, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, operetta singer (tenor), director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunn am Gebirge
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1959
Place of death Vienna