Josef Danegger (actor, 1865)

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Josef Danegger , actually Josef Deutsch (born November 15, 1865 in Mischkolz , Kingdom of Hungary , † January 1, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian character actor , director and drama teacher .

Life

After graduating from high school, Danegger trained as a singer at the Budapest Opera . He went to Vienna, where he studied acting with Bernhard Baumeister , Fritz Krastl and Louis Arnsburg . He began his stage career together with Julius Strobl in New York in the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater, known to New Yorkers as the Irving Place Theater . Pressburg followed in 1894. In 1895 he came to Teplitz, where he worked as a director for two years. In 1897 he was engaged at the Cologne City Theater. In 1903 he went to Berlin. In 1906 he came to the Stadttheater Zürich as a director and in 1908 became chief director and lecturer. There he staged, for example, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Beaumarchais' Figaro's wedding with Elisabeth Bergner and Alexander Moissi or Antigone von Sophocles with William Dieterle at Bergner's side. He got on well with the artistic director Alfred Reucker , but between 1916 and 1918 he experienced a competitive struggle that affected his health and repeatedly forced him to take a cure in Orselina , which Reucker disliked and in turn almost caused Danegger to emigrate to Budapest. Only after a little over a year did he leave Zurich after a stay in Berlin with the aim of the Burgtheater Vienna . In the city, rich in venues, he also worked for a time at the Deutsches Volkstheater , at the Theater an der Wien , in the concert hall and especially in the Josefstädter Theater , where he worked as an actor and director with Max Reinhardt .

When he left the theater in der Josefstadt, he took over teaching at the New Vienna Conservatory . Initially he was part of a double leadership of the Conservatory, later its sole director. His students (also outside the conservatory) included the important Swiss film actor Heinrich Gretler , Maria Andergast from Munich , who has become known for home and operetta films , Leopold Lindtberg , one of the most important Swiss theater and film directors, and Egon von Jordan , who lives on the Vienna stage , who also played a role in the Sissi film .

Money worries, emotional pressure and body aches made him pass on New Year's Day in 1933 in his Vienna apartment.

Josef Danegger was the father of a family of actors . His wife was the Austrian actress Bertha Müller . His older son Josef Danegger was an actor. His younger son Theodor Danegger was an opera singer and actor. His only daughter Mathilde Danegger was also an actress. Their first marriage to the Swiss director Walter Lesch came from their daughter, the actress Karin Lesch .

Quotes about himself

“D [anegger] is a correct actor, whose achievements give multiple reasons for recognition and appreciation. It is used successfully in both classical and modern pieces. "

"He was an excellent representative of the subject of hero fathers and so-called bourgeois fathers."

“Danegger had real theatrical blood and would probably have achieved a far more prominent position if a certain tendency towards bohemianism hadn't weakened his ambition. But it was precisely this soft and casual nature of his mind that, in connection with his collegiality, earned him many friends. "

“I saw this cast-iron actor at work. I was there when he tried out half nights with his adoring students and he hardly needed my advice when it came time to convert a concert platform into a stage set up for seventeen transformations. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook . Ferdinand von Kleinmayer Verlag, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1951, p. 297 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Julia Danielczyk: Josef Danegger (1865–1933) . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 429.
  3. ^ A b Ottmar G. Flüggen: Biographical stage lexicon of the German theaters from the beginning of German drama to the present . compiled by OG Flüggen. 1st year. A. Bruckmann's Verlag, Munich 1892, German, Josef, p. 58 .
  4. ^ A b c d e f g Anonymus: Sudden death of the actor Josef Danegger sen. In: New Free Press . No. 24535 , January 2, 1933, p. 3 .
  5. ^ Letter from Danegger to Reucker dated October 22, 1918. In: Akademie der Künste, archive , signature Reucker 267 , pages 404-406.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Josef Reitler: Josef Danegger . In: New Free Press . No. 24536 , January 3, 1933, p. 4 (evening paper) .
  7. ^ Felix Aeppli: Gretler, Heinrich. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., January 19, 2006, accessed on October 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ Thomas Staedeli: Heinrich Gretler. 1897 - 1977. In: cyranos.ch. Retrieved October 12, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Maria Andergast. In: steffi-line.de. Retrieved October 12, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Studer clears up the matter. A new Lindtberg film . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27/1947 , July 5, 1947, film, p. 11 ( spiegel.de [accessed on October 12, 2014]).
  11. ^ Egon from Jordan Biography. Mini Bio / Trivia. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database, accessed October 12, 2014 .
  12. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . With a cover picture. Paul List publishing house , Leipzig 1903, p. 175 .
  13. ↑ Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): German Stage Yearbook. The big address book for stage, film, radio and television . 45th year. Verlag der Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 1934, p. 98 .
personal data
SURNAME Danegger, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian character actor, director and drama teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Mischkolz , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1933
Place of death Vienna