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SONNENTHAL, ADOLF VON (1834–1909)

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SONNENTHAL, ADOLF VON (1834–1909) , See also:Austrian actor, was See also:born of Jewish parentage in See also:Budapest on the 21st of See also:December 1834. Though brought up in penury and apprenticed to a working tailor, he yet cultivated the histrionic See also:art, and was fortunate in receiving the support of a co-religionist, the actor Bogumil See also:Dawison, who trained him for the See also:stage. He made his first See also:appearance at See also:Temesvar in 1851, and after engagements at Hermannstadt and See also:Graz came in the See also:winter of 1855–1856 to See also:Konigsberg in See also:Prussia, where his first performance was so successful that he was engaged by Heinrich See also:Laube for the Burgtheater in See also:Vienna, making his first appearance as See also:Mortimer in See also:Schiller's Maria See also:Stuart. Under Laube's careful tuition he See also:developed within three years into an actor of the first See also:order, excelling both in tragedy and See also:comedy; and in 1882, after 25 years of brilliant service at the See also:Court See also:Theatre, he was given a patent of See also:nobility. In 1884 he became manager-in-See also:chief of the theatre; and in • 1887–1888 acted as See also:artistic adviser. He visited the See also:United States in 1885, and again in 1899 and 1902, achieving See also:great success. His chief parts were Nathan in See also:Lessing's Nathan der Weise, See also:Wallenstein, and Der Meister von See also:Palmyra.

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