Ludwig Mantler

Ludwig Mantler ( Czech Ludvik Mantler ; born March 21, 1861 in Prague , Austrian Empire ; † probably on June 27, 1936 there , now Czechoslovakia ) was a Bohemian-Austrian classical singer and theater actor .

Live and act

The son of a merchant was originally supposed to take up his father's profession, but quickly remembered his artistic inclinations and in 1893 he was trained as a singer by Julius Stockhausen . The following year, on October 3, 1894, Ludwig Mantler began his stage career in then German Metz (Lorraine) with Gasparo in a performance of The Talisman . In 1895 he moved to Olomouc (Moravia), one year later to Strasbourg in Alsace, in 1899 to Frankfurt am Main, and finally at the beginning of the new century, in 1901, he went to Vienna for the first time. At the court opera there and at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he also appeared from 1905, Ludwig Mantler alternately experienced his artistic highlights in the following decades.

Until 1925 he was successful at both venues as a bass buffo, especially with comical roles. Mantler played and sang, among others, the Kezal, the Beckmesser, the Baculus, the Figaro, the Leporello, the Mephisto, the Bombardon, the Bartolo and the Alberich. “With all the preservation and emphasis on characteristic punch lines in the lecture, he led himself as a vocal, excellent singer who knows how to handle his finely trained, soft, sonorous voice with an extremely skilful, undaunted manner and through his sharply individualizing, pointed play that differs from far from exaggeration, it adheres brilliantly ”, as was already stated in 1903. In addition to opera houses, concert halls were also part of Mantler's artistic home. His wife Drusilla Mantler, who died in 1909, was active as an opera singer. Ludwig Mantler also worked as a singing teacher; his students included, for example, the actress Alice Hechy .

In 1934 he returned to his hometown Prague to teach as a lecturer at the university there. The Jewish artist was buried in the Czech capital on June 28, 1936. Since, according to the Jewish rite, he should have been buried within 24 hours, Mantler probably died the day before.

plant

• Ludwig Mantler: The formation of the Belcanto, Vienna 1912

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the Stage, Leipzig 1903. P. 638 f.
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt a. Vienna 1960, p. 1348
• Karl-Georg Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon, Volume Hirata – Möves, p. 187. Verlag KG Saur, Bern and Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11598-9
• Austrian National Library (ed.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin, 18th to 20th centuries . Volume 2, J-R. No. 6778, p. 893. Verlag KG Saur, Munich 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eisenberg, p. 639