Bogumil Dawison

Bogumil Dawison ( born May 15, 1818 in Warsaw, † February 1, 1872 in Dresden ) was a Polish- German actor.

Life

Dawison came from a poor Jewish family in Warsaw, where he experienced a privation youth. He earned his living as a copyist, a sign painter, writer and reviewer. He learned by self-study German and French.

In 1837 he debuted in the Polish theater of his hometown. In 1841 he was induced by guest performances by Julie radish and Ludwig Lowe, to switch from the Polish to German stage. About Lviv and the Hamburg Thalia Theater, he came in 1849 to the Burgtheater, where Heinrich Laube promoted the change in the nature of trade. His egocentric behavior led to a rift with gazebo.

1854 to 1864 he was engaged in Dresden, where he retired in strife. Since 1864 he was a very successful concert tours that took him to America. By overexertion broken physically and mentally, he returned, lost art, back to Dresden, where he died on 1 February 1872. The actor was buried in the old cemetery in Dresden's southern suburb Anne.

He was a great character actor ( Shylock, Mephisto, Franz Moor ).