Jocza Savits

Jocza Savits (born May 10, 1847 in Novi Bečej , † May 7, 1915 in Munich ) was a Hungarian actor , director and writer from 1875 .

As the son of a businessman, he lived in Vienna from 1854 , where he began an apprenticeship as a businessman and completed an acting course with Adolf von Sonnenthal . In 1865 he played in Basel and St. Gallen, in 1866 in Augsburg, in 1867 he made his debut on the mediation of Franz von Dingelstedt as Arnold von Melchtal at the court theater in Weimar in Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" , where, with one interruption, from 1869 to 1870 at the Burgtheater , was in the subject of the youthful hero , bon vivant and comic lover, until 1883.

From 1884 to 1885 he was senior director and artistic director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . From 1885 he was a director from 1896 to 1906 he was senior director at the National Theater in Munich .

He directed plays by Franz Grillparzer and the Zarzuela .

In 1889 he brought King Lear onto the revolving stage with the artistic director Karl von Perfall and Carl Lautenschläger (theater machinist) . He wrote theatrical-theoretical works and translated Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin . He was a member of the German cooperative. Members of the stage, honorary member in 1896. He is buried in Munich's north cemetery.

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1. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon , [1] ; German biography , [2]
2. ↑ Werner Ebnet, You Lived in Munich: Biographies from Eight Centuries, p. 512