Martin Klein (actor)
Martin Klein ( March 27, 1864 in Szerred - November 3, 1924 in Berlin ) was an Austro-Hungarian opera singer ( tenor ), violinist , entertainer , theater actor , theater director and theater director .
Life
Martin Klein, son of a wine wholesaler, devoted himself to singing from an early age, but also attended the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied violin. He found his first engagement in Wiener Neustadt, then came to Landshut, Posen, to the German Theater in Pest, Karlsbad, Wroclaw, Halle, to the German Volkstheater in Vienna, Danzig, Cologne, Stuttgart (court theater), to the Munich court theater, directed for four years in the summer season the court theater in Baden-Baden and also worked as director of the Friedrichsbautheater and the royal Wilhelmatheater in Stuttgart.
Klein actually began his career as a singing comedian, but was also often active in drama, comedy and folk plays, tried to succeed Alexander Girardi at the Theater an der Wien and was always considered to be a very skilled performer and singer.
In the last few years he even made the transition from operetta to opera, and it was tenor buffo parts that he himself performed at the court theater in Munich. “Mime” and “Beckmesser” were described as quite notable achievements by the artist. In the first-mentioned role he achieved brilliant success in 1902 on the occasion of the Wagner performance at the Imperial Opera in Moscow. In the same year he was hired as a senior director and actor at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich.
From 1903 to 1904 he worked at the Centraltheater Berlin , and until 1907 he appeared as a singer. From 1907 to 1912 he directed the theater in Czernowitz and from 1912 to 1921 the Luisentheater in Königsberg.
literature
- Little Martin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 384.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Martin Klein . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 512 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Martin Klein in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Martin Klein at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian tenor, violinist, entertainer, theater actor, theater director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szerred |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1924 |
| Place of death | Berlin |