Siegfried Jelenko

Siegfried Jelenko (born April 19, 1858 in Vienna ; † March 2, 1935 there ) was an Austrian theater actor and theater director .

Life

Siegfried Jelenko moved with his parents to Cincinnati while still a child and spent part of his youth in America. When he returned to Vienna, he first became an official of the Vienna Reinsurance Company and later of the Handelsbank. His inclination to the theater grew stronger and after Adolf von Sonnenthal declared him qualified and he had already acted with good success as "Ferdinand" (June 5, 1876) and in "Faust", he left the office of the Banking institute forever and first stepped onto the boards in Gleichenberg under his baptismal name (1876). Then he took on engagement at the court theater in Sigmaringen, then went to Bremen in 1877, then to the Ostend Theater in Berlin in 1878, and then began a wandering life that led him to Mödling, Olmütz, Pest, Brünn, Kissingen, Würzburg and Marienbad until he was committed to the court theater in Karlsruhe in 1883. After having worked at this court stage for five years, he joined the Association of Berlin Theater in 1888 . In 1890 he advanced to director and in 1892 to senior director. In this capacity he moved to the Residenztheater in 1894, where he remained until 1896, worked at the Berlin theater in 1897 and 1898 and from 1899 onwards he was the director of the theater at the Hamburg City Theater. There he was a member of the Hamburg Masonic Lodge Absalom to the three nettles . In 1931 he went to Vienna, where he also died.

literature

• Jelenko Siegfried. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 97.
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 477.
• Susanne Blumesberger , Michael Doppelhofer , Gabriele Mauthe : Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J – R, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 602.
• Inka Le-Huu: Siegfried Jelenko, director. In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 84-87.

Web links

• Siegfried Jelenko at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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