Richard John (actor)
Richard John , actually Richard Jonas , ( March 7, 1845 in Berlin - March 13, 1928 in Vienna ) was a German theater actor and director .
Life
The son of a bookseller was also destined for his father's profession and although he was active in Berlin and Leipzig and even in America until 1871 - he had already taken dramatic lessons from Theodor Döring against his father's will - for Stage went.
At the time of this decision he was in New York, from where he went directly to Leipzig to meet Franz Deutschinger in order to prepare himself for an acting career .
John found his first engagement in Kassel, then he came to Rostock to Deutschinger (1872 to 1874), then to Breslau (1875), to Mainz (1877), to Leipzig (1878) and worked at the Germaniatheater in New York from 1886 to 1887. Disgruntled by the not always pleasant personal circumstances at the theater, he withdrew from the stage in the last year mentioned, stayed away from the theater for a long time and only took part in the German Volkstheater in 1889 . In 1893 he became a member of the Raimund Theater , which he left in 1898 to join the Association of the Kaiser Jubilee Theater. When the Deutsches Schauspielhaus opened in Hamburg in 1900, John answered a call to the same. John, who was also a director there, left the association of this stage in 1902.
For a few years, alongside Adolf von Sonnenthal, John was Vice President of the Cooperative of German Stage Members .
He was married to his colleague Adele Groß . He died by suicide.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 484, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1929 , publisher: Cooperative of German Stage Members, Berlin, 1929, p. 101 f.
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon . Second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 917.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | John, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jonas, Richard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1928 |
| Place of death | Vienna |