Reinhold Wellhof

Reinhold Wellhof , actually Reinhold Wellhofsky , (born January 30, 1850 in Kronstadt , † September 17, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor and singer .

Life

Since the family's financial resources did not allow for training as a clergyman or craftsman, the then 16-year-old came to the stage in his home town in 1865. When the theater had to close due to bad business, he moved through the country as a folk singer. His next permanent engagement was for two years with smaller roles at the city theater in Timisoara . He then joined a traveling group with whom he toured Romania, Slavonia and southern Hungary for two years. From there his path led via Ödenburg , where he worked as an actor and director in 1877/78, to Germany, where he was engaged at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin in 1878 . He stayed there until his death, but also appeared at other Berlin theaters ( Theater Unter den Linden , Victoria Theater , Theater des Westens and 1890–92 at the Adolf Ernst Theater ).

Wellhof appeared mainly in the role of the operetta comedian and in antics , u. A. on October 3, 1883 at the world premiere of One Night in Venice by Johann Strauss .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Wellhof, Reinhold . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1111 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
• Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . VI / fascicle 32/33: Weisbrod – Wiel. Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-093611-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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1. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . tape 4 . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Remarks

1. ^ In the German Theater Lexicon also Richard Wellehofsky