Jan Edgar

Jan Edgar , actually Jan Edgar Balasits (born July 5, 1847 in Kolomea , Galicia , † July 26, 1900 in Woltersdorf bei Erkner ) was an Austrian theater actor , theater director , writer and editor .

Life

Edgar came from a respected family of civil servants in Lviv and, after completing his training in Vienna at the Kierschner Theater Academy, devoted himself to the stage. He got his first engagement in 1871 at the court theater in Dessau , then he came to the Weimar court theater , then to the city theater in Berlin.

In 1874 he interrupted his stage career and carried out his long-cherished plan to switch to Polish drama in Lemberg. He worked there as an actor and director in Polish comedy, but this step remained a passing episode in his life, although it had enhanced his versatility and agility.

As early as 1875 he played at the Dresden Residenztheater , then at the Wiener Stadttheater (1878) under Heinrich Laube , then at the National Theater in 1879, and then at the royal theater (1880) in Berlin. In 1881 he became a member of the Oldenburg Court Theater. This was followed by an epoch of changing engagements (1884 in Danzig, 1885 in Augsburg, 1886 in Düsseldorf) until he came up with the plan to give up the stage entirely and to devote himself to teaching and writing, for which purpose he lived in Berlin hit.

From 1880 he held the post of editor of the Deutsche Bühnengenossenschaft until his unexpected death caused by a fatal illness during a summer vacation .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 219.

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