Johann Fürst (actor)

Johann Fürst (caricature by Karl Klietsch , 1872)

Johann Fürst (born April 17, 1825 in Vienna ; † October 19, 1882 there ) was an Austrian folk singer , actor and theater director.

Life

The beginnings as a folk singer

Johann Fürst was raised in a foundling house and first came as an apprentice to a butcher, then to the button turner Seidl, the father of the popular singer Wenzel Seidl (1842–1921). His musical talent emerged early on - according to a legend circulated by Hugo Paul, he was discovered when he was singing the yodel of a female singer in a suburban pub behind a hedge without errors. Fürst already appeared as a folk singer in the suburbs at the age of 16 and founded his own troupe in 1856, with which he also had success and became wealthy in society.

The theater director

In mid-1861 he bought the last vacant monkey theater in Wiener Wurstelprater (Fireworks Allee, today: Exhibition Street ). He ran it from April 21, 1862, initially as a singspielhalle (also: Liederspielhalle ; later, after receiving the theater license, as Fürst's Volkstheater in the Imperial and Royal Prater , then Fürst-Theater ).

The site previously belonged to the menagerie owner and animal dealer Heinrich Schreyer , who opened there on April 25, 1847, after which it was managed by Carl Orbán and Laurent Casanova (sometimes also: Louis Casanova).

Theater in the Josefstadt

In addition to his ownership of the summer the seasonal music hall leased Prince the dilapidated theater in Josefstadt , and, after renovation, it reopened on October 7, 1865 the local Posse Old and New Vienna by Karl Bayer , however, put bitter experiences because of a series already May 1, 1866 the management down.

Together with Josef Matras , Fürst established his Prater stage in 1862/63 as a center of classical Viennese folk singing. In July 1870, Fürst rented the premises of the Pest Winter Orpheum for five years in order to give performances with his company as Fürst's Vaudeville Theater during the winter season.

With the resignation of Heinrich Börnstein and Karl Bukovics (1835–1888) on July 19, 1871, Fürst again took over the management of the Josefstadt theater as a tenant (until 1877).

Theater principal and author

Fürst made a name for himself as the author of couplets, folk plays and antics, especially as a house poet for his theater. The folk play A Viennese folk singer had its premiere on September 16, 1859 in the Theater an der Wien ; Among his most famous couplets are On Monday, start all over again , Well, just ka water net, well, well , des mag i net and the duet Allerweil fidel .

You will never know my name

A famous oxymoron from one of his antics, possibly not invented by him, became the proverbial: "You will never know my name - I am the Emperor Josef." This referred to the theatrical incognito of Emperor Joseph II , who traveled to France as a "Count of Falkenstein". In a rhythmically improved form, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando uses the sentence at the end of his piece " Emperor Joseph and the Railwayman's Daughter ": "But you should never know my name - I trust everyone knows him." Jura Soyfer transposes the sentence in his satire "The most loyal citizen of Baghdad" into the Orient: "But you should never know my name! I am the Caliph Harun al Radschid!"

Death, funeral, fame

Johann Prince, who had known up to receive thirty years at the height of its popularity , died at the age of 57 years at his home in the Franzensbrückenstraße 8, Wien Leopoldstadt , and was on 21 October 1882 the Central Cemetery in an honorary dedicated grave is buried (Group 30 D, Row 10, No. 13).

In 1940 the Johann-Fürst-Platz in the Wurstelprater was named after him.

literature

• M. Blau: The old prince theater in the Prater . Sn, s. l. 1930.
• Otto Wladika: From Johann Fürst to Josef Jarno. The history of the Vienna Pratertheater. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1961, OBV .
• Marion Linhardt : royal seat and metropolis. On a cultural topography of Viennese entertainment theater (1858–1918) . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-66050-3 .
• Gertrud Doublier:  Prince, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 693 ( digitized version ).
• Prince Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 381.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 442.

Web links

• Entry on Johann Fürst (actor) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• About Johann Fürst. With photos (grave in Vienna's central cemetery, Fürst-Theater in Vienna's Prater, etc.) and biography from several (specified) sources.

Newspaper articles

• Theater director Fürst † .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , October 21, 1882, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
• Johann Fürst .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, October 21, 1882, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
• Johann Fürst's funeral ceremony. In:  Neue Freie Presse , October 22, 1882, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hugo Paul: The last original Viennese. (on the 50th anniversary of Prince's death) in Wiener Bilder Nr. 23, June 5, 1932, p. 18 [1]
2. ↑ Theater show. Vienna. (...) The folk singer Prince (...). In:  Blätter für Theater, Musik und Kunst , No. 54/1861 (Volume VII), July 5, 1861, p. 215, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Theater show. Vienna. (...) Fürst's Easter Monday opened the “Singspielhalle” (...). In:  Blätter für Theater, Musik und Kunst , No. 33/1862 (8th year), April 23, 1862, p. 131, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ also: Heinrich Schreier; (* 1793 in Lemberg , † August 22, 1847 in Vienna)
5. ^ The opening of the monkey theater in the Prater. In:  Der Humorist , No. 100/1847 (11th year), April 27, 1847, p. 399, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ Features. In the autumn. (...) We are on the threshold (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , supplement Wiener Abendpost , No. 230/1865, October 7, 1865, p. 918, column 3 below. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ Theater and Art News. Directions-laying down of the Lord Prince. In:  Die Presse , supplement Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , No. 105/1866 (XIXth year), April 18, 1866, p. 1 (running page), center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. (...) The director of the Volkstheater in the Prater (...). In:  Morgen-Post , No. 203/1870 (XXth year), July 25, 1870, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ Theater show. (...) The direction of the Josefstädter Theater (...). In:  Blätter für Theater, Musik und Kunst , No. 59/1871 (17th year), July 25, 1871, p. 234, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
10. ↑ Stefan Zweig: Marie Antoinette , chapter "The brother visits his sister" [2]
11. ↑ Herzmanovsky-Orlando: Complete Works Volume VI, edited on behalf of the Brenner Archive Research Institute under the direction of Walter Methlagl and Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1985.
12. ↑ in Jura Soyfer: The good God created order [3]
13. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) † Johann Fürst. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 6520/1882, October 20, 1882, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
14. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Johann Fürst . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 25, 2013.

Remarks

1. ↑ Bayer was the in- house author of the Singspielhalle . After Prince's death, he was in charge of this Prater stage from 1883–1886 (which now focuses on operettas). - Linhardt: Residenzstadt und Metropolis , p. 81.