Josef Matras

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Josef Matras as Sigismund Prince of Trocadero in Prince Methuselah by Johann Strauss

Josef Matras (born March 1, 1832 in Vienna ; † September 30, 1887 there ) was an Austrian actor and folk singer .

Life

Matras came from a humble background. He earned his living as a waiter. As such, he occasionally performed Viennese songs , couplets, etc. at his workplace . Ä. to the lecture.

At the age of 20, Matras was discovered in 1852 and, after performing as a jump-in , invited by the folk singer Johann Kwapil (1822–1907) to join his singing company. In November of the same year, Matras left the Kwapil Society, saying I have to go to the theater and went first to Wels , then to Pest as a chorus and episode player . Later, until 1855, he was active as a singer on various stages in and around Vienna.

After May 1855, Matras and Johann Fürst , who had joined Kwapil at the end of 1854, (and Franz Deckmayer senior, who left after three weeks in a dispute ), founded their own folk singers' society. 1862 Matras was where the Prater incurred Prince Theater of Moritz Lehmann (1819-1877) for the Carl Theater poached in which he mainly plays by Johann Nestroy occurred.

At the Carltheater, Matras appeared together with Karl Blasel, who came to the stage in 1869, and Wilhelm Knaack, who had been active in Vienna since the end of the 1850s, as a very successful comedian trio that continued the tradition of Nestroy - Scholz - Grois and to which Josefine joined Gallmeyer joined.

In 1879 Matras, who had developed an aversion to touring tours and never played outside of Vienna again, began to be ailing, his memory deteriorated, and physical and mental pain made itself felt in the performances. Franz Tewele , who had taken over the permanent management of the Carltheater in 1878, felt compelled to offer the artist a lower fee. Matras declined resolutely, ended his contract, withdrew, but came back months later to the offer made by Teweles to take over Melchior in A Joke - and could no longer deal with the consequences of the disease that dominated him in his stage lecture hide. After a further exploring attempt in Marie Gordon's one-act farce, a lecture by the caretaker , Matras had to end his stage career.

Friends took Matras to a cold water sanatorium in Kaltenleutgabe in 1881 , but the patient's condition deteriorated further until October 5, 1882 (under the pretext of taking Matras to the writer OF Berg , whom he knew), and was transferred to the Lower Austrian Land -Irren-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt ( Vienna-Alsergrund , Lazarettgasse 14) took place and an incurable mental illness was diagnosed. With the help of friends, Matras spent the last years of his life in the institution, where he died at the age of 55.

He found his final resting place in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 19). In 1912 Matrasgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Matras was the father of the actress Pepi Kramer-Glöckner .

Roles (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Local report. (...) Prince and Matras. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 6527/1882, October 27, 1882, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Matras †. In:  Die Presse , Abendblatt, No. 269/1887 (XL. Year), September 30, 1887, p. 2, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ↑ † Joseph Matras. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 8295/1887, September 30, 1887, p. 2 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Josef Matras . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on May 26, 2014.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Father of Greanen Toni ( Green Toni ), the last Viennese lyre man Franz Deckmayer jun. (1851-1898).
  2. ↑ At that time there were two water spa facilities in Kaltenleutzüge, that of Wilhelm Winternitz (1835–1917) and that of Karl Emmel (1840–1918). - See: Peter Nics: Cold people from then to now. Second sequel . In: kaltenleuthaben.gv.at , accessed on June 3, 2014, as well as -: Kaltenleuthaben from then to now. Third sequel . In: kaltenleuthaben.gv.at , accessed on June 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Matras, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1887
Place of death Vienna