Josef Jarno

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Josef Jarno , actually Josef Kohner (* 24. August 1866 in the oven , Empire of Austria ; † 11 January 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and theater director . He was the brother of the opera and operetta composer Georg Jarno , who was two years his junior .

Josef Jarno
Grave of the Jarno family in Vienna's central cemetery . Note the inscription: It states August 25, 1865 as the date of birth.

Life

Jarno made his debut in 1885 at the Kurtheater Bad Ischl , Upper Austria . He performed here every summer for the next 14 years.

In 1897 the Bad Aussee summer theater was inaugurated and Jarno was appointed its first director. He gave up this post two years later when he went to Vienna in 1899 to take over the management of the Theater in der Josefstadt . Together with the Berlin actor and director Gustav Rickelt , he wrote the Schwank "The Fortune Teller" around this time.

In Vienna, Jarno was able to realize his ideas of modern drama by bringing Henrik Ibsen , August Strindberg , Arthur Schnitzler and George Bernard Shaw to the stage and cross-subsidizing them with his more popular productions . Jarno worked here until 1923 and married the actress Hansi Niese in 1899 . With her he had two children, Josef (November 10, 1899 - February 17, 1964) and Hansi (February 26, 1901 - March 21, 1933, married Breza).

The German-language premiere of Ferenc Molnár's suburban legend “ Liliom ” with Jarno in the title role of the astray showman in 1913 established the play's worldwide success.

In 1905 Jarno bought the Fürst-Theater in Vienna's Prater (converted into a cinema in 1927) and ran it in parallel with the Josefstädter Theater. From 1925 to 1931 Jarno was director of the Vienna Renaissance Theater . In the 1928/1929 season he also held this position at the Carltheater . In addition, from 1921 to 1930, during the summer months he led the Ischl Kurtheater, where he had made his debut. He also promoted writers through soirées , readings and similar events.

His grave of honor is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 C, number 4). Two years later, his widow Hansi Niese was also buried here.

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Jarno  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. "Berliner Leben" magazine (issue 05, 1899).
  2. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Wiener Salonblatt, 1919-04-19, page 7. Retrieved on October 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Jarno, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohner, Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Furnace , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1932
Place of death Vienna