Matthias Karl Ludwig Treumann (27 July 1823 – 18 April 1877) was an Austrian actor,

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singer (

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theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

and writer.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a printer in his native

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in 1841, he went to the in Pest, where his brothers were already active. In order to avoid conscription for military service in Hamburg, he joined a touring theatre troupe in

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. From 1843 to 1845 he worked again in Pest. 1847 he was engaged on the recommendation of

Franz von Suppé Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 181921 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A c ...

for the

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. In 1852 he moved to the

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in Vienna, which was under the direction of

Carl Carl Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director. Bernbrunn was born illegitimately to Maria Anna Alxinger and Karl Andrä Bernbrunn. Maria Anna was the wife of the poet (175 ...

, where he appeared with

Johann Nestroy Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and ...

and

Wenzel Scholz Wenzel Johann Scholz (Wenzislaus Johann, real name Wenzel von Plümeke; 28 March 1787 – 5 October 1857) was an Austrian actor in Ljubljana, Laibach, Klagenfurt, Graz and in Vienna, above all at the , who became known as the partner of Johann ...

. At first Nestroy was displeased by the engagement of Treumann, because he saw his position endangered by him. But soon there was an excellent understanding between Nestroy, Treumann and Scholz. Treumann was known for his talent for mimicry. In 1860 he took over the management of the Carltheater. The triumphal success of Offenbach's ''

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'', in his adaptation with Nestroy as Jupiter laid the foundation for the development of the Viennese

. In order to escape the high lease of the new owners of the Carltheater, at which Nestroy had already failed as director, in 1860 Treumann founded the ("Kaitheater" or "Treumann-Theater"), which he managed until its destruction by a fire in 1863. From 1863 to 1866 he was director of the Carltheater again. Treumann undertook many tours to Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Lemberg, Budapest and Brno, and in this way acquired a significant fortune. He also gained a reputation as a translator of operetta texts (for works by Offenbach). He also wrote the libretto for the operetta '' Prinz Methusalem'' for

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. Treumann, whose wife Maria had died in 1862, died of a stroke in the morning hours of 18 April 1877 in

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Bibliography

* Ludwig Eisenberg: ''Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert''. Edition by

Paul List Pawel M. List (, ; Odesa, 9 September 1887 – London? 1954) was a Russian Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship. He was born in Odesa, Ukraine (then Russian Empire). He had a separate chess ...

, Leipzig 1903, * *

Constantin von Wurzbach Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author. Biography He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...

: Treumann, Karl. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 47. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1883, * Christian Fastl: Treumann, Karl. In: ''

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''. Online-Ausgabe, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Druckausgabe: volume 5, edition of the

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, Vienna 2006,

References

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