Albin Swoboda, Sr.

Albin Swoboda ( born November 13, 1836 in Neustrelitz; † August 4, 1901 in Oberlößnitz; Complete name Albin August Heinrich Emil Swoboda ) was an Austrian singer and actor.

Life

Swoboda came from a theatrical family, his father was the actor and later an opera singer Josef Swoboda ( 1806-1882 ). Albin came to Vienna in 1848. Against the will of his father he went to the theater in the Josefstadt, then to Krakow, Salzburg and Linz. He joined with comic singing roles emerged as the tenor. In 1857 he was engaged by Johann Carl Nestroy to the theater, where he had great success in folk plays. In 1859 he moved to the Theater an der Wien and played in operettas and musical comedies. In 1874, he worked a short time in the artistic direction of the Ring Theatre in Vienna and later at the Deutsches Theater in Budapest.

After financial difficulties and a few other stations, he went in 1881 to the Dresden Court Theatre, where he acted only as an actor in the subsequent period.

Swoboda was married twice, first with the Viennese operetta performer Friederike Fischer (1844-1898), from whom he was divorced in 1898 and died in Dresden, in a second marriage with actress Gretchen Swoboda ( 1872-1921 ). From his first marriage came the Dresden-born son Albin Swoboda, Jr. (1883-1970), a bass - baritone.

Swoboda died 1901 in Oberlößnitz and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Honor

In 1955, we named the Swobodagasse in Vienna Hietzing after him.