Viktoria Pohl-Meiser

Viktoria Pohl-Meiser (born November 28, 1858 in Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria , † June 17, 1936 in Mödling , Austria ) was a German-Austrian stage actress and singer .

Live and act

The daughter of the actor Ludwig Pohl-Meiser was already active on the stages of her hometown Munich as a four-year-old child. Viktoria Pohl-Meiser received her artistic training at the Munich Conservatory, followed by engagements in Augsburg, then again in Munich, where she now also worked as a dancer. In 1877 the Austrian Johann Fürst brought the Bavarian woman to his winter guest tour and two years later to his Vienna Pratertheater. In between, Viktoria Pohl-Meiser worked briefly on stages in Budapest, Karlsbad and at the Vienna Ring Theater . In 1879/80 she was engaged at the Theater an der Wien , the following season at the National Theater in Berlin and then in Linz. From 1883 to 1891 Viktoria Pohl-Meiser appeared on various stages in Germany, Russia and Switzerland. Until then, the actress had covered the subject of the cheerful lover and soubrette, but this changed from 1892 when Viktoria Pohl-Meiser was hired at the Carl-Theater in Vienna and now switched to the subject of the comical elderly.

She performed her parade roles (often associated with singing) in plays as varied as The Butterfly Battle, How To Tie Up Men, Gasparone and The Prince Consort . Viktoria Pohl-Meiser's most successful phase began in 1894 when she appeared for the next 14 seasons as a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Josefstadt . Now the buxom, plump artist was allowed to play jealous wives, quarrelsome mothers-in-law and matchmakers - mainly in (French) comedies and teasing. The Munich resident resorted to a drastic and energetic presentation of the characters shown. At the Pratertheater in the Austrian capital, Pohl-Meiser was seen more often in later years in the operetta (e.g. in Edmund Eysler's The Immortal Rascal in 1910 ), but also in the same genre at the Vienna Citizens' Theater. From 1921 Viktoria Pohl-Meiser directed an operetta school in Vienna and from 1925 also appeared on the Viennese radio. When she was very old, she finally retired to Mödling.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 122.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hagemann, on the other hand, mentions the year 1862, but that seems very unlikely in view of her stage debut in the mid-1870s

Web link

• Biography in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon