Marc Henry

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Marc Henry (born April 2, 1873 in Paris , † December 24, 1943 in Saint-Raphaël , France ; born Achille Georges Thuret, from 1889 Achille Georges d'Áilly-Vaucheret) was a cabaret artist, chansonnier, opera librettist and author.

Life

Marc Henry was born out of wedlock to Clémence Thuret. From 1889 he was allowed to use the family name d'Áilly-Vaucheret. It is not known whether he was subsequently legitimized by his biological father or took the name of his stepfather. Henry was one of the key figures in early cabaret. He performed as a chansonnier and conférencier in Parisian cabarets in the successor to Chat Noir . In Munich , where he then lived as a student and correspondent for French newspapers and published a revue Frano-Allemande from 1899 , he co-founded the Elf executioners in 1901 . In Vienna he founded the cabaret Nachtlicht (1906) and the cabaret Fledermaus (1907) together with Marya Delvard . In April 1906 there was an assault on Karl Kraus , which had consequences in a court case. He then completed numerous tours with Marya Delvard through Germany and France. He sang French chansons, ballads, his own compositions and folk songs from earlier centuries, which he compiled or wrote himself in the old style and published as music books in the Scharfrichter-Verlag (later transferred to Friedrich Hofmeister ). He sang Parisian chansons such as La Ballade des trois Gosses , Le Testament de Pierrot and La Berceuse bleue by Gabriel Montoya from the repertoire of Yvette Guilbert . In French folk songs like La Légende de St. Nicolas or the Chansons légères et galantes , Henry usually accompanied himself on the lute. He performed French soldiers' songs in a real Zouave costume .

Henry's lost drama Les yeux morts , written in 1897, formed the basis for the opera Die toten Augen (Premiere 1916) by Eugen d'Albert , for which he wrote the libretto together with Hanns Heinz Ewers . For the opera Ivas Turm (premiered in 1926) by Ernst von Dohnányi , Henry worked again with Ewers as a librettist.

Marc Henry was married to the singer and cabaret artist Marya Delvard (1874-1965).

Works

  • with Hanns Heinz Ewers : Joli Tambour! The French folk song. New life, Berlin 1911.
  • with Hanns Heinz Ewers: The dead eyes . Stage poetry (opera). Music (1912/13): Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1916.
  • Au pays des maitres-chanteurs. Payot, Paris 1916.
  • Trois villes: Vienne - Munich - Berlin. Payot, Paris 1917.
  • Beyond the Rhine. Memories of art and life in Germany before the war. Dodd Mead and Company, New York, 1918 ( digitized ).
  • with Hanns Heinz Ewers: Ivas Tower. Stage poetry (opera). Music (1926): Ernst von Dohnányi . Premiere 1926.

Voices about Marc Henry

"M. (The abbreviation was formerly Monsieur, later Marc) Henry managed the company with great skill by introducing each of us to the guests in an extremely well-groomed broken German, gently preparing them for our peculiarities and, for example, from me, as I am with burning Cigar used to stand on the podium, assured: 'He is the prototype of a Berlin bohemian; he can smoke as if there were nothing. '"

- Erich Mühsam : Non-political memories, Viennese episode. Development of the paperback publishing house, 1927.

"Henry, speaking fabulously spoken German, in an endlessly long frock coat, his curly head with the beautifully twisted mustache screwed up by an enormous collar, held the introductory conference. With a lovely smile, with small, round, explanatory hand movements, he explained the cabaret idea. And he concluded his speech with the triumphant sentence: 'And now, my very despicable gentlemen, we can say: from today on Vienna has the first cabaret.' "

- Richard Wiener : The classic cabaret. In: The Stage No. 111, December 23, 1926.

literature

  • Michael Buhrs, Barbara Lésak, Thomas Trabitsch : Cabaret Fledermaus. A total work of art by the Wiener Werkstätte . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85033-082-6 .
  • Revue Franco-Allemande / Franco-German Rundschau: Fondée à Munich en 1897 by Marya Delvard, M. Henry, Fritz Holl, JG Prod'homme. Continuée à Munich en 1964 by Marya Delvard, Fritz Holl, Hans KEL Keller sous les auspices de la Société Franco-Bavaroise, Bavarian-French Society, publisher of the Grotius Foundation, Munich, 1964.
  • Hans-Gerd Koch (Ed.): Franz Kafka . Diaries Volume 1: 1909–1912 in the version of the manuscript. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 149 f. ( online ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirko Nottscheid (ed.): Karl Kraus - Frank Wedekind: Correspondence 1903 to 1917 (= Wedekind readings: writings of the Frank Wedekind Society. Volume 5) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3701- 6 , p. 386 f. (annotated register of persons).
  2. ↑ According to other information, Marc Henry is said to have died as early as 1915, cf. Klaus Budzinski : The cabaret: 100 years of literary criticism of the times (= Hermes Handlexikon Volume 10037). ECON Taschenbuch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-612-10037-8 , p. 98 ( limited preview in Google book search) and exhibition catalog Fledermaus Kabarett 1907 to 1913 . Brandstätter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85033-082-4 , p. 234 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b Register of persons and subjects on Erich Mühsam, Tagebücher Volume 2. P. 19 ( online ; PDF; 395 KB). www.muehsam-tagebuch.de, accessed on September 20, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Mirko Nottscheid (ed.): Karl Kraus - Frank Wedekind: Correspondence 1903 to 1917 (= Wedekind readings: writings of the Frank Wedekind Society. Volume 5) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260- 3701-6 , p. 176 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Wolfgang Victor Ruttkowski : The literary chanson in Germany. 2nd Edition. Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2013 (1966), ISBN 978-3-86815-576-1 , pp. 57-67 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Eckart Früh (Ed.): Even more. The double-beaten Torch Kraus. Vienna, June 2006 ( online ( memento of the original from April 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 1, 6 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.damaschke.de
  7. ^ Karl Kraus : Die Fackel No. 201 (April 19, 1906), pp. 26-28 and No. 203 (May 12, 1906), pp. 17-24 about the dispute Marc Henry - Karl Kraus around Marya Delvard, the ended with a beating scene at the Casino de Paris and subsequent lawsuits.
  8. ^ Frithjof Trapp: Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Part 1: A – K (= manual of the German-speaking exile theater 1933-1945. Volume 2). Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 169 f. ( accessed via De Gruyter online).
  9. ^ Wilhelm Neef: Das Chanson: a monograph. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1972, p. 192 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  10. ^ Ivas tower , object description in d: kult digital art and culture archive Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Áilly-Vaucheret, Achille Georges (real name); Vaucheret, Achille Georges; Thuret, Achille Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cabaret artist, chansonnier, opera librettist and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1943
Place of death Saint-Raphaël , France