Leopold Nowak (actor, 1856)

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Leopold Nowak ( May 17, 1856 in Brno - after 1917) was a theater actor and director .

Life

Nowak, the son of a state official, took lessons from an actress at the Brno City Theater and then devoted himself to the stage. He had his first engagement in Gera, then he came to Hanau, Lübeck, Liegnitz, Görlitz, Posen, Königsberg, Zurich, Nuremberg, Graz, Oldenburg and from there he was engaged in the newly founded Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater in Vienna in 1898 , where he was Quintilius Varus ” made his debut in the Hermannsschlacht . In 1899 he had a role in Turandot, Princess of China .

In November and December 1903 he was seen as Colonel von Velsen in the comedy Liebesmanöver . The reviews were devastating, which, however, affected the piece more than the actors. Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn , who had opened the new city theater with the Hermannsschlacht in 1898 , was financially ruined in 1903 and had to withdraw from the theater business.

Nowak later worked at the Raimund Theater in Vienna . He also worked there as a director. It can be traced back to after the First World War .

Contemporary reception

“Nowak represented the character subject in which he was effective. In both the classic and the modern piece, he always endeavored to embody the characters in uniform characteristics. He used clear, sensible and clear language, and this hardworking, capable actor also received due recognition. "

- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. century

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program sheet . ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. euro-boek.nl @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.euro-boek.nl
  2. ^ Program of the Kaiser Jubilee City Theater. karlheinz-everts.de
  3. ^ Killy Literature Lexicon . Volume 8: Marq-Or . 2nd Edition. de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022046-9 , p. 413
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume II: Hurka-Pallenberg . de Gruyter, 1960, p. 1671
  5. ↑ Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 732 f. Text archive - Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Nowak, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH after 1917