Joseph Giampietro

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Joseph Giampietro
Joseph Giampietro in the review Halloh! at the Metropol Theater (1909)

Joseph Giampietro , also Josef Giampietro (born June 21, 1866 in Vienna , † December 29, 1913 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor , operetta singer and comedian.

Life

Giampietro studied at the Technical University in Vienna, attended the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music there , began his career in Budapest in 1886, continued in Bozen and Meran , to Salzburg in 1887 and in 1888 to Karlsbad . He had an excellent position in the theater life of the city of Vienna, especially in the operetta in the German Volkstheater in Vienna and in the Theater an der Wien . Engaged in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in 1899 and then went to the New Theater. In 1901 he sang the song And Meyer looks at me in the Berlin cabaret Die Böse Buben , which Kurt Tucholsky praised as the “classic Berlin couplet ”. From 1892 he was married to Ella Funk (stage name: Erau). A special feature is an early sound film recording by the German sound film pioneer Oskar Messter in which Giampietro appears with Fritzi Massary .

He found his final resting place in an honorary grave in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 43, number 40).

Theatrography (selection)

  • Court Marshal Kalb ("Cabal and Love")
  • Philipp Moser ("The stain on the honor")
  • Gelbhofbauer ("The Kreuzelschreiber")
  • Leonhard ("Maria Magdalena")
  • First cuirassier ("Wallenstein's camp")

literature

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuuaQPBu04 , from 13:15, the name "Giampetro" is written in the subtitle.