Josef Jarno

Josef Jarno, origin. Josef Kohner ( born August 24, 1866 in Budapest, † 11 January 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and theater director. He was the brother of two years younger opera and operetta composer Georg Jarno.

Life

Jarno debuted in 1885 on Kurtheater Bad Ischl, Upper Austria. He performed the following 14 years every summer here.

1897 Summer Theater Bad Aussee was consecrated and appointed Jarno to its first director. He gave this office two years later, when he went in 1899 to Vienna to take the lead at the Theater in der Josefstadt. Together with the Berlin actor and director Gustav Rickelt he wrote at this time of the farce " The Fortune Teller ".

In Vienna, Jarno was able to realize his ideas of modern drama by bringing Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Arthur Schnitzler and George Bernard Shaw on stage and cross -subsidized by its more popular productions. It was here Jarno until 1923 and married the actress Hansi Niese.

The German -language premiere of Ferenc Molnár's suburban legend " Liliom " with Jarno in the title role of the wayward showman founded in 1913 the worldwide success of the piece.

1905 bought the Jarno (1927 in a converted cinema ) Prince Theatre in the Vienna Prater and directed it in parallel with the Josefstadt theater. From 1925 to 1931 Jarno was director of the Vienna Renaissance theater. In the season 1928/1929 he had this capability at the Carl Theatre. In addition, he led from 1921 to 1930 in the summer months the Ischler Kurtheater to which he had once made ​​its debut. He also promoted by writers soirées, lectures and similar events.

His grave is located in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group C 14, number 4). Two years later his widow Hansi Niese was buried here.