Paul Jensen (actor)
Paul Jensen ( March 20, 1850 in Koenigsberg - 1931 ) was a German theater actor , singer ( baritone ), singing teacher and theater manager .
Life
Jensen began his stage career not as a singer, but as an actor, and he first stepped onto the stage in Görlitz in 1868. We find him in Freiburg in 1869, in Königsberg in 1870 and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg from 1870 to 1881 .
Only after Eugen Gura drew his attention to his beautiful voice and trained it did he begin his singing career. In 1881 he found engagement at the city theater in Cologne and in 1882 he received a call to the court opera theater in Dresden. The artist worked there until 1895, after having also taught solo singing at the local conservatory from autumn 1886. In 1896 the artist left the ranks of the Dresden court theater and was entrusted with the management of the technical and economic department.
In 1897 he resigned from this office and temporarily withdrew from the arts until he was appointed artistic director of the Frankfurt Opera on November 1, 1900. He headed this until 1911.
family
He came from a very musical family. His father Eduard Jensen was a tenorist, concert singer and singing teacher, his grandfather Wilhelm Martin Jensen , generally known as the editor of the Prussian chorale book, was the teacher and musical advisor of the Prussian royal family in East Prussia in 1807. His cousin Adolf Jensen was a recognized song composer and the professor at the Cologne Conservatory Gustav Jensen was also part of his family.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Paul Jensen . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 480 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Paul Jensen at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Paul Jensen. Pictures in the Manskopf Collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jensen, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, singer (baritone), singing teacher and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1931 |