Sigmund Lautenburg

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Sigmund Lautenburg
Theater director Sigmund Lautenburg rides in the Berlin zoo, 1906

Sigmund Lautenburg (born September 11, 1851 in Pest , † July 21, 1918 in Marienbad ) was an Austrian theater actor, director and theater director.

Live and act

Lautenburg was the son of a Jewish factory owner; He graduated from high school in Vienna, but had to leave school due to the income of his parents and then entered the banking business. He also worked as an actor. An uncle then brought him to Vienna, where he continued his education at the Academic Gymnasium; but here, too, the theater was more attractive to him than school. Under these circumstances he decided to devote himself entirely to dramatic art. He received training from the actors A. v. Sonnenthal and Ujházy; At the end of 1871 he made his debut in Neusohl (Slovakia) as Ferdinand in " Kabale und Liebe ". After completing his military service, he played ( intriguants and character roles ) 1873/74 at the Urania Theater in Hamburg, 1874/75 in Barmen, 1876/77 in Elberfeld, 1875/76 at the Deutsches Theater in Pest, 1877/78 in Jena, 1878– 80 at the Ostend-Theater in Berlin, under mood in 1880/81 at the Vienna City Theater and 1881/82 in Stettin.

Lautenburg has also worked as a director since his engagement in Jena; In 1882 he became director of the Elysium Theater in Stettin, in 1883 of the German Theater in Amsterdam, in 1884 of the Tivoli Theater in Bremen, in 1885 of the Lübeck City Theater and in 1886 of the Residenz Theater in Hanover. From 1887–1904 he was head of the Residenztheater in Berlin (interrupted in 1897/98 by a substitute activity at the New Theater in Berlin) . Under his leadership, which was also open to newer currents, during these years at the Residenz Theater, in addition to French social plays by Alexandre Bission or Georges de Porto-Riche (“In Love”) and others. a. also performed works by Tolstoy , August Strindberg , Henrik Ibsen and Max Halbe . He was the first in Germany to perform Halbes “ Jugend ” and Ibsen's “ Wildente ”. In 1907 Lautenburg took over the management of the Raimund Theater in Vienna, which, despite his artistic recognition, he resigned after six weeks due to financial difficulties. In 1915/16 he organized and directed guest performances at the front in Poland and Russia. In the winter of 1917/18 he was on stage for the last time as part of a guest of honor at the Berlin Royal Theater. According to Burg also worked as a translator of French plays, as Octave Feuillet comedy Scylla and Charybnis (published by Reclam 1907).

In 1906 the Schaubühne expressed its criticism of Sigmund Lautenburg: “ ... The Lautenburg type naturally does not have a taste that involuntarily faltered from the artistically horrible taste. "

literature

  • Gotthilf Weisstein: Siegmund Lautenburg's farewell. In: National-Zeitung , 60 vol. (1907), April 29, Abendblatt, p. 2.

Web links

Commons : Sigmund Lautenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lautenburg, Sigmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Gunther Nickel. The Schaubühne - the world stage: Siegfried Jacobsohn's weekly and its aesthetic program. 2013
  3. ↑ Die Schaubühne: complete reprint of the years 1905–1918. Athenaeum, 1979
personal data
SURNAME Lautenburg, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1918
Place of death Marienbad