Josef Modl (singer)

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Josef Modl (left) with the composer Karl Kratzl

Josef Modl (born March 18, 1863 in Vienna ; † March 1, 1915 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ), also known as "the fidele Peperl ", was one of the most famous Viennese folk singers towards the end of the 19th century. In addition to Vienna, he often played in the more liberal Budapest, which had a large German-speaking population. In addition, he made frequent tours , where he played other large entertainment establishments in cities of Austria-Hungary month after month .

Live and act

In 1884 he was engaged at Drexler's Singspielhalle in Vienna's Prater . There the “ funny Viennese child ” and character comedian was the “ darling of all apprentices and tailors ”. In Budapest, for example, in 1887 he played Pruggmayer's Orpheum . The press praised him as a “ character comedian in the sense that the types he brought out are real Viennese folk characters and not caricatures. Some of his lectures, which he mostly writes himself, show a very keen power of observation, a natural, unaffected joke [...] "

In 1889 Modl, who was performing a guest performance in Samossy's capital city Orpheum in Budapest , met the concert hall concessionaire Bernhard Lautzky . He was looking for suitable singers and comedians for a new ensemble. Modl supported Lautzky in this and subsequently became artistic director and one of the singers of the newly founded Budapest Orpheum Society . He left this ensemble, which had originally only been planned as a summer guest performance, at the end of 1889 or beginning of 1890, as he was engaged at the Ronacher establishment , where he experienced the high point of his career in the following years - around 1900.

In the early years of the 20th century, he and his wife ran the Karlovy Vary Orpheum . Before 1912 he was employed at the Fövarosi Orpheum in Budapest for an indefinite period of time with a monthly salary of 2,000 kroner . He then played for a while - at most until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when the building was confiscated as a barracks - at the Colosseum in Linz , where he earned 1,800 kroner a month.

Josef Modl died in 1915 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 24, row 3, number 43).

Works

A selection of couplets that were interpreted by Josef Modl and some of which were also written by himself:

  • All sorts of excuses
  • From the animal kingdom
  • That's a fine one
  • This is the new genre
  • That would be food!
  • The peak of serenity
  • The funny straw widower
  • The main thing is the accompaniment
  • A Gigerl
  • A witty story of ten little negroes
  • Experiences of an inexperienced
  • Made
  • It's okay
  • One must not become enemies
  • So everyone keeps going
  • Drink ma no a bottle, music: Wilhelm Hinsch
  • It's eternally bad for him
  • From 1st to 30th
  • X-ray couplet

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Wacks: The Budapest Orpheum Society - A Varieté in Vienna 1889-1919. Verlag Holzhausen, Vienna 2002, p. 2
  2. ↑ a b Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , April 24, 1898, p. 15. In: Wacks, p. 46
  3. ^ Josef Koller : The Viennese folk singing in old and new times. Vienna 1931, p. 166. In: Wacks, p. 45
  4. ↑ Wacks, pp. 20f

literature

personal data
SURNAME Modl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk singer and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1915
Place of death Carlsbad