Karl von Bukovics

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Karl von Bukovics von Kiss-Alacska , also Carl Bukovics von Kiss-Alacska (born September 6, 1835 in Vienna ; † April 3, 1888 ibid) was an Austrian theater actor , comedian , singer ( tenor / baritone ), theater director and director .

Life

Bukovics was destined for the soldier's class and raised as a pupil of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. Retired as a lieutenant on September 1, 1853, after two years he was promoted to lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, and also became a staff adjutant to Major General Count Mennsdorff.

However, his beautiful voice was so highly praised that he was pushed by court opera singer Karl Schmid and court conductor Heinrich Proch , after a long hesitation finally made the decision to acknowledge his army of officers and turn to the stage.

The well-known musician Richard Levy trained his pretty tenor voice , and by the end of 1858 he was able to make his debut on the Graz stage. It turned out so cheap that in 1859 he joined the Association of the Imperial Court Opera in Vienna. He made his debut there on September 2nd as "Max" in the Freischütz , occasionally the new production of this opera, and his appearance was accompanied by such extraordinary success that this performance is considered the first important event of the season 1859/1860 ( Marie Louise Dustmann- Meyer sang the "Agathe"), designated.

However, Bukovics only worked at this art institute for one year and went abroad in 1860. He took on engagements in Bremen, then in Düsseldorf, Königsberg and Berlin, where he became one of the most popular members by name at the Woltersdorfertheater.

Returning to Vienna in 1869, he took over the management of the theater in der Josefstadt , but soon gave it up again due to a lack of major success. From 1871 to 1873 we find him as director of the theater in Wiener Neustadt and from 1874 to 1874 as director of the new city theater in Teplitz .

Bukovics had already moved from opera to drama, where later his extraordinary talent in the comic field came into its own. Heinrich Laube saw him play in Teplitz in 1875 , immediately recognized the "positive comedian" with his penetrating theater view and hired him, as Theodor Reusche was appointed to the Burgtheater for the Wiener Stadttheater, whose direction he had just taken over for the second time. Bukovics started his Viennese engagement in Maria Magdalena as "Kommerzienrat Werren" with extremely favorable success and knew, through his cozy humor, based on the cheerful local tone, to gain the fullest sympathy of the audience in the shortest possible time. Yes, even after the first year he was considered the avowed darling of the Viennese and just as his splendid tenor baritone found numerous admirers in the past, he was now considered one of the most amiable, pleasant, likeable and effective comedians.

Bukovics was generally popular as an actor until he took over the management of the Vienna City Theater on September 25, 1880 after Laube had resigned for the third time. The new management largely retained the previously cultivated genre of theater, but switched to cultivating modern German and French drama and comedy (opening performance on September 25, 1880, Countess Lea, play by Paul Lindau ). The audience transferred the sympathies to the director Bukovics, and when the first three years of his management were up, the artist, who did not cease to be among his own best energies, was leased the city theater for a further six years.

On January 31, 1884, Bukovics celebrated his 25th anniversary as an actor in the most rosy mood to the cheers of his admirers ( Franz von Schönthan's Schwabenstreich was given with numerous ovations ), and on Friday, May 16, the theater and with it all the hopes of its director fell to rubble and ashes .

But Bukovics didn't have to worry about his artistic future for long. The Hofburgtheater assured itself of this eminent artistic power. At the court theater too, he found ample opportunity to develop his comic talent. His tall, corpulent figure served him well. Presumably out of vanity, however, the artist used a degreasing cure. Perhaps he may have exaggerated it, the heart seems to have been affected - he fell ill soon afterwards and died on April 3, 1888 in Vienna.

Bukovics brother was Emerich Bukovics , director of the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. His daughters Camilla and Christine also became actresses.

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SURNAME Bukovics, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukovics von Kiss-Alacska, Karl von (full name); Kiss-Alacska, Carl Bukovics from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater actor, comedian, singer (tenor / baritone), theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1888
Place of death Vienna