Wilhelm Bauer (actor)

Wilhelm Bauer ( March 4, 1864 in Vienna - after 1939) was an Austrian child actor , stage actor and singer ( tenor ).

Life

As a ten-year-old boy, the son of a second-hand dealer played the first comedic roles in children's comedies at the Theater in der Josefstadt and when he was 16 years old, he escaped his parents and school and went without ever having received any singing or drama lessons , to the stage.

He began his stage career in Trieste in 1881, continued it in Venice, Milan, Naples, Rome, Florence and Genoa and, after returning to Austria, joined the Association of the Marienbad City Theater (1882), then came to Klagenfurt (1883), Brno ( 1884), Olmütz (1885 to 1886), Graz (1887 to 1889), Frankfurt (1890), Hamburg (1891), then went to New York and joined the Association of the Carltheater in March 1893 , which stage he was the first to perform in 1906 and belonged to the extremely popular and successful operetta tenor. Bauer has also taken part in three guest tours by the Viennese operetta ensemble led by Franz von Jauner to Russia.

At the Carltheater he appeared in several world premieres of operettas, in 1901 in The Three Wishes by Carl Michael Ziehrer , in 1901 in The Sweet Girl by Heinrich Reinhardt , in 1902 in Der Rastelbinder by Franz Lehár and in 1904 in Der Göttergatte , also by Lehár.

From 1906 to 1912 he lived as a guest in Vienna, after the beginning of the radio age he was employed by the Münchner Rundfunk at the end of the 1920s. In the first half of the 1930s, Bauer was hired to perform operas at the Landestheater Coburg , and towards the end of the decade he sang in the same area at the Landestheater von Neustrelitz . At the beginning of the Second World War, already 75 years old, the now retired Wilhelm Bauer disappeared from the public eye.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Wilhelm Bauer . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 58 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Wilhelm Bauer at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

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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