You are bidding on oneCabinet photo from 1917out of Vienna.

Motive: the Austrian Actor, vocal comedian, opera singer (tenor) and theater director Carl Pfann (1874-1928) in costume (Roman soldier).

Embossed in the photo Dating 1917.

At this time he appeared in the Vienna Citizens Theater and the Theater an der Wien.

Photographer:Photographic Art InstituteLudwig Guttmann, Vienna, Währinger Str. 18.

Format:cardboard 21.9 x 10.9 cm; Photo 19.5 x 10.4 cm.

Condition: Cardboard slightly bent, stained, corners damaged; the photo with small scratches, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Actor Vienna

About Carl Pfann (source: wikipedia):

Carl Pfann, also Karl Pfann (* 17. January 1874 in Vienna; † 7. May 1928 in Leoben) was an Austrian actor, vocal comedian, opera singer (tenor) and theater director.

Life: Carl Pfann was born as the son of a meat butcher and his wife Franziska (née. Brosch). He was married to the soubrette Suzanne Bachrich-Pfann, the daughter of Sigmund Bachrich and aunt of Albert Bachrich. Their daughter Elisabeth Morgan was a dancer. She received her training in stage dance from W. Fränzl in Vienna. Her engagements: Vienna Volksoper, as a stage manager in the Teatro Maria Vitoria in Lisbon. From here she came to Arabic film. She was married to Ernst Morgan, polyglot and comedian, brother of Paul Morgan. Carl Pfann found his final resting place in the Hietzinger cemetery (group 56, no. 22) in the 13th Vienna district.

Career: Without ever taking theater lessons, at the age of 28 he followed an advertisement in the newspaper for a traveling troupe that was looking for actors. He made his debut in 1892 as “Poldi Purzbichler” in the Waltz King in Tyrnau. Further comedian trips through the province followed. In the same year he received an engagement for choir and small roles at the Landestheater in Laibach. Because an actor suddenly left the engagement, Carl Pfann was given the chance to play a solo role and was so good that he was hired as a youthful hero and lover.

His beautiful voice was also discovered and in 1894 he was hired as a vocal comedian at the German People's Theater in Prague. In 1895 he made his debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in the vaudeville The Little Sheeps and enjoyed general popularity here during his five years of work.

In 1888 [did you mean: 1898?] he decided to take professional singing lessons and to definitely dedicate himself to a career as a singer. In 1901 he appeared in front of the Viennese audience for the first time as an operetta singer at the Theater an der Wien. From 1902 to 1904 he came to the City Theater in Brno for his first lyrical and youthful hero tenor roles. In 1904/05 he was engaged at the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and was then engaged by Hans Gregor at the Komische Oper Berlin (1905 to 1908), where he sang major tenor roles from the opera literature. He then returned to operetta and was very successful at the Metropoltheater Berlin (with Fritzi Massary) and other Berlin theaters. At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Vienna. During the war years he sang at the Vienna Citizens' Theater and at the Theater an der Wien, where he continued to perform after the end of the war. In 1922/23 he worked as director and singer at the Theater in Moravia-Ostrava (Ostrava) and then appeared occasionally as a guest at Austrian operetta stages until 1926. During his career, guest appearances took him to the Frankfurt Opera House. M. (1903), to the Vienna Court Opera (1903), to the Karlsruhe Court Theater (1911) and to the theater in Bad Ischl (1926).

Theater engagements and guest performances

1892: Comedian trips with various performances, e.g. B. in Tyrnau (Trnava)

1892–94: State Theater in Laibach (Ljubljana)

1894: German Folk Theater Prague

1894–95: Pilsen Theater

1895: Theater in Josefstadt

1901: Theater an der Wien, Carltheater, Court Theater in Wiesbaden, Kurtheater in Baden-Baden

1902–1904: Brno City Theater

1903: Frankfurt a. Opera House M., Vienna Court Opera

1904–1905: Theater Hamburg

1905–1908: Metropoltheater Berlin

1911: Karlsruhe Court Theater

1911–1912: New Operetta Theater Berlin

1912–1914: Theater at Nollendorfplatz Berlin

1913: Theater Vienna

1914–1918: Citizens' Theater and Theater an der Wien

1926: Theater Bad Ischl

Filmography

1916: The tragedy at Rottersheim Castle

Carl Pfann as an artistic subject: An autograph card from Carl Pfann forms the source material for a wall exposure by the Austrian artist Birgit Graschopf created in 2017. This 110 cm × 240 cm work of art is a black and white photograph that uses the wall or the room itself (in a private Viennese house) as the image medium.

In 1888 [did you mean: 1898?] he decided to take professional singing lessons and to definitely dedicate himself to a career as a singer. In 1901 he appeared in front of the Viennese audience for the first time as an operetta singer at the Theater an der Wien. From 1902 to 1904 he came to the City Theater in Brno for his first lyrical and youthful hero tenor roles. In 1904/05 he was engaged at the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and was then engaged by Hans Gregor at the Komische Oper Berlin (1905 to 1908), where he sang major tenor roles from the opera literature. He then returned to operetta and was very successful at the Metropoltheater Berlin (with Fritzi Massary) and other Berlin theaters. At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Vienna. During the war years he sang at