Richard Tauber (actor)

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Anton Richard Tauber (born 21st April 1861 in Vienna , Empire of Austria ; died on 4. August 1942 in Pregassona in Lugano ) was an Austrian stage actor and in 1912 theater director , most recently from 1918 to 1930 General intendant of the municipal theater in Chemnitz .

biography

Tauber was the son of a Jewish Hungarian wine merchant. From 1878 he attended the Nicklassche Theater School in his hometown. He made his first appearance in Wels . This was followed by stations in St. Pölten , Znaim , Essegg , Troppau , Laibach , Eger and Linz . A longer engagement took him to Graz in 1885 , before he played for ten years in Berlin from 1887 at the Königliches Schauspielhaus and the Deutsches Theater and in 1888 at the Berlin Theater . In between, he came to the Theater an der Wien as part of guest performances in 1889 , where he took on a role in the play Clémenceau by Alexandre Dumas . The main role of Isabella was played by Adele Sandrock . After a trip to the United States the following year, during which he was a guest at the Amberg Theater in New York , he appeared at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague from 1891 and again in 1900 for a guest appearance at the Berlin Theater. From 1899 to 1912 he found a permanent position at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Wiesbaden , before he was offered the position of director at the city theater in Chemnitz in 1912 . In 1918 he was appointed general manager there. But the anti-Semitic hostility became increasingly noticeable in the 1920s , because Tauber was a Jew . After 18 years of management, he retired in August 1930, resigned but celebrated by the public. He then lived in what is now the Weißen Hirsch district of Dresden . before it during the period of National Socialism in Switzerland emigrated .

During his era as an actor, Richard Tauber interpreted the Jew Shylock in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , the Fool Iago in Shakespeare's Othello , the lawyer Torvald Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's Nora or Ein Puppenheim or Demetrius in Friedrich Schiller's eponymous drama fragment Demetrius . As artistic director he led the Chemnitz stage to a high reputation. In 1914 the Saxon premiere of Parsifal could be celebrated there. While well-known conductors and actors of their time performed or worked under Tauber's artistic directorship in Chemnitz, Franz Lehár said that he was “one of the most outstanding theater directors in Germany”.

During his guest appearances, Richard Tauber got to know the soubrette Elisabeth Denemy . Their relationship resulted in a son whom Tauber brought to Wiesbaden in 1903, but did not adopt until 1913: the singer Richard Tauber, born in Linz in 1891 . In the same year Richard Tauber made his debut on the stage directed by his father in Chemnitz .

Awards

Richard Tauber was made an honorary member of the German Stage Association for his services to the German theater . At the same time he was the first chairman of the artistic directors' association.

literature

  • Theo Stengel (arrangement) in connection with Herbert Gerigk : Lexicon of Jews in Music . With a list of titles of Jewish works. (Publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for the research of the Jewish question, Frankfurt am Main, Volume 2) Bernhard Hahnefeld Verlag, Berlin 1940, Sp. 272 ​​(reproduced as facsimile in: Eva Weissweiler with the collaboration of Lilli Weissweiler: Ausgemerzt! Das Lexikon der Juden in der Music and its murderous consequences. Dittrich-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 , p. 321.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Our contemporaries. Who is it . VIII edition, Degener, Leipzig 1922, p. 1556.
  2. ↑ a b c d Anton Richard Tauber. from Große-chemnitzer.de, accessed on December 13, 2015.
  3. ^ According to the Reich Manual of the German Society only in 1890.
  4. ↑ a b c d Tauber, Anton, Richard. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1888 (with picture).
  5. ↑ Named after its builder Gustav Amberg (1844–1921), built in 1888. Amberg lost it in 1891 after failures. See: Gerald Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak: The Oxford Companion to American Theater. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-516986-7 , p. 23.
  6. ^ According to the Reich Manual of the German Society only in 1892.
personal data
SURNAME Tauber, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tauber, Anton Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater actor, theater director, general manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1942
Place of death Pregassona near Lugano