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Oscar Teller (born October 1, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 10, 1985 in Giv'atajim , Israel ) was an Austrian cabaret artist , reciter , singer and author .
Life
After graduating from a Vienna commercial academy in 1921, where he had joined the Jewish secondary school association "Jedidea", he studied singing in Dresden. Then studied law in Vienna, doctorate in 1932. With Viktor Schlesinger, he developed the self- ironic "Das Original Jüdische Heurigen - Duo Teller and Schlesinger" since 1923 .
In 1927 he was the founder and head of the Jewish Cultural Center in Vienna and in the same year founded the “Jüdisch-Politische Cabaret” together with Schlesinger , whose premieres all started in the cinema and theater hall of the Porrhaus , Vienna-Wieden , and then in the Zionist local groups of Vienna were played. The first revue appeared under the title Jews out by "Viktor Berossi", the collective pseudonym of Teller, Schlesinger and Fritz Stöckler, and Benno Weiser joined the group. Between 1935 and 1938 , plays translated from Yiddish were performed in the Jewish Cultural Theater.
In 1938, Teller and Schlesinger emigrated to New York via England , where they ran the Jewish-political cabaret “Die Arche” from 1941, which existed until 1945. Teller's daughter, Friedl Teller, also worked on the Ark .
After 1945, Teller moved to Tel Aviv and headed the “Jewish Cultural Center” there. He toured Israel , England and the USA with programs in German (“Humor from 3000 Years of Jewish Literature”) .
Fonts
- Viktor Berossi (pseudonym), The political songs from the revue "Jews out" , Vienna: AV Schlesinger, 1930
- Oscar Teller (Ed.): David's Witz-Schleuder. Jewish-Political Cabaret. 50 years of cabaret theaters in Vienna, Berlin, London, New York, Warsaw and Tel Aviv , Darmstadt: Darmstädter Blätter 1982 ISBN 3-87139-073-9
literature
- Rudolf Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna . Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1970.
- Henryk M. Broder (ed.), Hilde Recher (ed.): Jewish calendar. 2008-2009. 26th year. Five thousand seven hundred sixty-nine . Ölbaum Verlag, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 3-927217-54-9
- Joanne Maria McNally, Peter Sprengel (eds.): Hundred Years of Cabaret: for the staging of social identity between protest and propaganda , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2488-5
- Alexander Rausch, Monika Kornberger: plates, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Roubicek : The customs were so strict there. Memories of an old Jewish national couleur student WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2000, p. 81.
- ↑ Corinna Kranjecz: Oscar Teller: A comedian from Vienna in exile. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2014, p. 11
- ↑ also: Victor Schlesinger , see: Oscar Teller: Davids Witz-Schleuder , p. 20
- ↑ Oscar Teller: David's Witz-Schleuder , p. 368
- ^ Weys: Cabaret , p. 62.
- ^ Weys: Cabaret , p. 63.
- ^ Joanne Maria McNally, Peter Sprengel (Ed.): Hundred Years of Cabaret p. 67
- ↑ Benno Weiser Varon Obituary ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Friedl Teller. In: Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 258f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teller, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cabaret artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1985 |
| Place of death | Giv'atajim , Israel |