Oscar Aigner

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Oscar Aigner , also known as Oskar Aigner (born November 10, 1875 in Munich , † July 12, 1943 in Hechendorf am Pilsensee , Bavaria , German Reich ) was a German singer (tenorbuffo) for operas and operettas and an actor on stage and film .

Live and act

Aigner received his artistic training in his hometown of Munich from the court actor König in the mid-1890s. His early role was that of adolescent lover. Aigner's first engagement came in the fall of 1899 in the East Prussian city of Elbing . After only one season he went to Plauen for another season (1900/01) and in 1901 for three seasons at the Altenburger Hoftheater (1901-04), in 1904 Oscar Aigner accepted a call at the Dresden Residenz Theater. In between he was seen for five summers during the theater-free time at the royal spa theater in Wildbad (1900 to 1905). With his move to the Elbe metropolis, Oscar Aigner largely turned away from acting and concentrated on singing roles in operettas, and occasionally also operas. Since moving to Dresden, he remained professionally connected to this city until the end and also worked at the local Central Theater.

At a young age, Aigner could be seen as Veit in Undine , as Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte , as Zitterbart in Der Evangelimann , as Lanzelot in Dieuppe , as Jakob in Der Strom , as Schummerich in Die zärtlichen Verwalten , as Lauffen in Zapfenstreich and as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus . Oscar Aigner celebrated his greatest success in later years, however, with Count Danilo in the classic operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár . “His improvised ideas were famous, through which he was able to give the stage events the right flavor”, as the German Stage Yearbook stated on the occasion of his death. At the same place you can read: “In the“ Gypsy Baron ”his Zsupan always aroused storms of applause and his“ beggar student ”was the embodiment of the most popular humor.” Aigner was practically in early retirement when he accepted several small roles in early talkies in the 1930s.

Filmography (complete)

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 171
  • German Stage Yearbook 1944, hrgg. from the Cooperative of German Stage Members. Obituary p. 72.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1944, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aigner, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (tenorbuffo) for opera and operetta as well as an actor for stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1943
Place of death Hechendorf am Pilsensee , Bavaria , German Empire