Michael August Shift

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Michael Augustschichtl (born October 22, 1851 in Munich ; † February 16, 1911 there ) was a German showman . He belonged to the Bavarian layerl theater family .

Life

Augustschichtl came from an old artist family and was the youngest son of Ignatz and Barbaraschichtl. He first learned the basket making trade, but he was primarily interested in the salon magician training that his brother Franz August completed.

In 1869 he opened the “Magic Theater” together with his brothers Franz August and Julius and thus became a legendary theater director, crier, magician and drum virtuoso at the Munich Oktoberfest . He became famous for the beheading of a living person using a guillotine , which was included in the program in 1872. Layerl performed with his magic theater not only in Munich, but in all of southern and central Germany at many folk festivals, fairs and markets.

Shiftl was married to Eleonore Karl (1855–1922), the daughter of a "tightrope walker" who brought her daughter Wilhelmine into the marriage. In 1907, she's only biological daughter, Mariele, died at the age of 13.

Michael Augustschichtl was buried in the Munich forest cemetery on February 18, 1911, with great sympathy from Munich . His widow sold the theater to her foster son Johann Eichelsdörfer († 1954) after the Oktoberfest in 1911.

Radio plays by Justin Schröder

Note: Since the data records between 1928 and the end of the war in 1945 (as of May 2020) have not yet been recorded in the ARD radio play database, only the information on productions from 1950 and 1969 by Bayerischer Rundfunk is available. The record of the radio play from 1969, however, shows that Justin Schröder (1899–1971) wrote the radio play about Augustschichtl as early as 1937.

Speaker:
  • 1969: Let's go to the shift! (Original radio play) - Composition and conductor of the studio orchestra: Raimund Rosenberger ; Director: Olf Fischer ; First broadcast: November 22, 1969 | 87'40 minutes
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  1. ^ The shift at the Munich Oktoberfest
  2. ↑ ARD audio game database (Let's go at the Shift !, BR 1969)
personal data
SURNAME Shiftl, Michael August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian showman
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1911
Place of death Munich