Siegmund Anczyc

Siegmund Anczyc , also Antschitz , (born September 14, 1783 in Vilnius , † June 5, 1855 in Krakow ) was a Polish theater actor and director.

Life

Siegmund Anczyc studied in Breslau and has been acting since 1799. He played in larger cities in Lithuania , Poznan , Poland and Belarus . He interrupted his activity in 1810 and began managing goods. He did this until 1816 and returned to the stage the following year. In 1819 he married the actress Barbara Hrehorowicz. From 1822 he acted in Warsaw and from 1826 in Krakow.

In 1838 and from 1844 Anczyc acted as director of the Warsaw Theater. He also founded a theater company with which he performed in Lublin , Płock , Posen and Kalisz . But in 1849 Chlędowski was appointed theater director, which is why Anczyc was forced to leave the stage. Since the latter was now unemployed, the local council appointed him to be a scraper.

During this time Anczyc hardly earned any money. He was later able to return to the theater, but was very weak and still impoverished, so that he had to rely on donations. In 1855 he finally died in Cracow at the age of 71. He left the writer Władysław Ludwik Anczyc (1823-1883).

Siegmund Anczyc's son Władysław Ludwik Anczyc was also known as a writer (photograph from 1860).

Act

Anczyc translated German and French language operas into Polish and revised them. He pursued this activity for a period of about 50 years.

Constant von Wurzbach described Anczyc's abilities positively: "As a performer, A. was true and strong, as a translator he was agile and experienced on the stage."

Works

revised works

• The Freischütz
• The daughter of the regiment
• Belisarius
• The Haymons Children
• Count Ory
• Death and the tenant
• Arsenins the misogynist
• The spendthrift
• On the ground floor and first floor
• The house of temperaments
• Deborah

further translations

• The Parisian good-for-nothing
• Hinko the Freiknecht
• Carean King

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Antschitz, Sigmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anczyc Siegmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 19.