Joseph Wagner
* 15.03.1818 in Hannover; ✝ 05.06.1870 in Vienna
Actor
Biography
Born the son of a Vienna copyist, Wagner began his acting career in 1835 at the Theater an der Wien when has was only 17 years of age. After an interlude in Pest in 1844 he moved to Leipzig, where he gave many successful performances. Heinrich Laube eventually managed to bring Wagner (who had, for a brief period, also been acting in Berlin) to the Vienna Burgtheater on a lifelong contract.
Shakespeare Roles
- Hamlet (Hamlet)
- Lear (King Lear)
- Romeo (Romeo and Julia)
- Leander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Literature
Primary Literature
- Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift. Wien, 1862.
Album pages with this person
Citation and Licence
Wagner, Joseph, in: The Digital Shakespeare Memorial Album. Edited by Christa Jansohn. URI: http://www.shakespearealbum.de/uri/gnd/117102458. (Accessed on 20.03.2023)
This text is published under the following licence: CC BY-ND 3.0 DE. Digitzed media reproduced with the permission of the library of Birmingham.