Leo Friedrich

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Leo Friedrich , real name: Leo Hermann (born May 6, 1842 in Vienna , † August 2, 1908 in Berlin ) was an Austrian and German actor and teacher of dramaturgy , director and writer .

Live and act

The son of a dentist in Austria's capital completed military training as a cadet at the time of Archduke Heinrich , which also included “behavior and dance lessons”. Due to his acting talent, he joined a traveling drama troupe in Styria at the age of 21 and worked at the Josefstädter Theater in Vienna from 1869 . In 1870/1871 he was a character player at the Theater an der Wien . There he played in the operetta Die Banditen by Jacques Offenbach .

Name change

Originally his family name was Loewy , also spelled Levy . He had him officially changed to Hermann in 1871 , when he was already practicing the acting profession. Then he put on the pseudonym Leo Friedrich , "Friedrich" was formerly his second, official first name. At the same time he left the Mosaic faith . He then entered the Roman Catholic Church . The writer, journalist and theater critic Siegfried Loewy (1857–1931) was his younger half-brother.

Castle actor

In 1871 the young actor moved to the Hofburgtheater . In his first stage appearances, he played the roles of “Streichberger” in the ennobled Kaufmann , “Don Cletos” in a recipe for mother-in-law and the “schoolmaster” in Deborah . His main roles also included “Duperron” in The Poor Marquis , “Cimber” in Julius Caesar , “Cheops” in Atho, the Priest King and “Franz Moor” in The Robbers . At the Burgtheater he was temporarily employed as an extra series director and director .

Teacher at the Vienna Conservatory

In 1877 Leo Friederich resigned as a court actor in order to devote himself full-time to his secondary activity, which had existed since 1874, as a professor at the Vienna Conservatory for the fields of "dramatic representation" and "oral lecture". He also worked as a director on the opera stage of the Vienna Conservatory. The Dresden opera singer Mathilde Fröhlich (1967-1934) was one of his students, as was the actress and founder of a theater school in Frankfurt am Main in 1896, Thessalia Klinkhammer (1859-1934).

Head of the Castle Theater in Tata (Hungary)

Leo Friedrich temporarily headed the private palace theater in Tata, Hungary (German: Totis) of Count Esterhazy (1839-1897), which was completed in 1888 .

Award

His awards included a gold medal for art and science , which was awarded to him by the “Promotore” society in Naples.

Professor at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin

From 1890 Leo Friedrich worked at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin . For several years during his professional activity in Berlin, he lived in Schöneberger Martin-Luther-Strasse . At the conservatory, Friedrich worked at the associated “opera school” and he was also the director of the “drama school” that had been set up on an experimental basis. After Friedrich's death, the reciter Bruno Tuerschmann continued the drama school.

Resting place: Evangelical cemetery Matzleinsdorf

His last apartment in Germany was on Charlottenburger Rankestrasse . Friedrich was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Austria's capital. He left three grown children, two sons and a daughter. His wife had died years earlier. One son, Fritz, was an actor in Vienna. The daughter, Hella Friedrich-Hermann, also lived in Vienna. Leo Friedrich also lived in Porzellangasse in Vienna - most recently before moving to Berlin - when he still had his own stage school.

Works

  • Cheerful lectures for salons and clubs. [A collection of self-written and foreign poems set up for the lecture and tested in public lectures by Leo Friedrich. Cover with a portrait photo of the author]. Daberkow's Verlag, Vienna o. Year (first published in 1895); a total of 3 volumes.
  • After dinner (comedy). Co-author: Karl Gröber (1847–). 1904.
  • Jeanette (Little Play ), published 1904.
  • The Nihilistin ( Schwank ) composed with Karl Gröber.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the IXX. Century. Paul List publishing house , Leipzig 1903, p. 289., keyword: "Friedrich, Leon (recte Hermann)"
  2. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950. P. 288, Hermann, Leo; Ps. Friedrich Leo (1842–1908), actor, director and writer
  3. ^ Role portrait taken by Fritz Luckhardt, Vienna; Theater Museum Vienna, online collection
  4. ↑ born as Leo Friedrich Löwy , according to History Wiki Vienna ; Leo Hermann
  5. ↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". [18000 withdrawals from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates] Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, M./Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New York, NY / Oxford / Wien 2009, ISBN 978- 3-631-55832-4 , p. 378
  6. ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 2, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 286.
  7. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List Publishing House, Leipzig 1903, p. 514.
  8. ^ Leo Friedrich: cheerful lectures for salons and clubs , third volume. Note on the (inner) title page
  9. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1889 ; Digitized version of the Vienna library
  10. ^ Location of the conservatory at Bernburger Strasse 22a
  11. ^ New theater almanac. Theater history year and address book. 20th year 1909, p. 172: Date of death: August 2, 1908, the place of death is called "Vienna", which according to other, more recent sources was Berlin / Brandenburg.
  12. ^ Berlin address book 1908, III. Part p. 530 column 2; Entry: Friedrich, L., Professor
  13. ^ Wilhelm Klatte, Ludwig Misch: The Stern Conservatory of Music in Berlin: 1850-1925. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary. Pp. 50, 51.
  14. ↑ At that time, Charlottenburg was an independent municipality in the province of Brandenburg. Adressbuch Berlin 1908, III. Part, p. 656 column 2
  15. ^ Wiener Abendpost , No. 177, supplement to the Wiener Zeitung of August 3, 1908; Category theater, literature and art , p. 5 column 1
  16. ^ Vienna IX. District, Porzellangasse 60; Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator , 1909, volume 2, p. 280, column 3
  17. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator, 1905; Didigitalisat der Wien-Bibliothek, Volume 2, S. 316 Column 2
  18. ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 2. Leipzig 1913, p. 448.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermann, Leo; Loewy, Leo Friedrich; Levy, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1908
Place of death Berlin