Wilhelm Urban (actor)
Wilhelm Urban (born September 14, 1793 in Munich ; † February 28, 1833 there ) was a German actor and librettist .
Life
Urban appeared on November 28, 1813 for the first time as "Fridolin" in Holbein's play of the same name in a larger role on the court stage of his hometown. From 1814 until his death he was on this stage. Although he was small in stature, he impressed as a young lover with his lively, black eyes and his pure, melodious voice. He had a sense of the great and was distinguished by artistic seriousness, great intimacy and delicacy of conception. Among other things, he played the title role in Goethe's Tasso and Faust , as well as the Pylades in Iphigenie , and also “Bassanio” in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , but above all he shone as Hamlet , whose monologue in the third act he is said to have uttered unsurpassable. Frequent guest appearances, e.g. B. in Berlin (1817), Vienna (1823) and Hamburg made his name famous outside of Munich, but the Viennese seem to have liked it little, according to the records in Costenoble's diaries. Urban also tried his hand at being a poet. He wrote a “Dramatic Fantasy Painting” in one act under the title Das Awakening Conscience , which was performed in Berlin on July 12, 1817 with music by Lindpaintner , and provided a free adaptation of Shakespeare's Die Komödie der Errungen , which was published in 1832 on the Munich stage went. He died young at the age of 39.
tomb
The tomb of William Urban is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 25 - number 10 - number 40) location .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1061
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Urban, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 351.
Web links
- Wilhelm Urban in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Wilhelm Urban in The Opera Project of the University of Cologne
Remarks
- ^ Month after Eisenberg and the ADB, the BMLO writes January
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urban, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1833 |
| Place of death | Munich |
- ↑ Date of birth as noted on the tombstone ( memento of the original from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
