Albin Swoboda (1836-1901): Eigenhändiger Letter Vienna 1879 / Loan Stadttheater For Sale

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Albin Swoboda (1836-1901): Eigenhändiger Letter Vienna 1879 / Loan Stadttheater:
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You are offerding on one handwritten letter of Operetta singer (tenor) and actor Albin Swoboda (1836-1901).

DatedVienna, on the 30th September 1879.

Directedto the directing staff at the Stadttheater Wien, where he was employed at the time. The directing team consisted of Messrs. Friedmann, Lobe, Schönfeld and Tyrolt and was installed for a few months in 1879/80 when no agreement could be reached on a director.

At the request of Baron Schey [di Friedrich Schey Freiherr von Koromla (* 5. March 1815 in Güns; † 15. July 1881 in Lainz), President of the Vienna City Theater] asks Swoboda for Postponement of the repayment of a loan granted by the theater management boards over 300 guilders. This was actually supposed to be on the 1st. September 1879 has to be repaid, but this is not possible for him.

His request for the repayment to be postponed until June 16th. March 1880 was only half met (half of the sum was to be deducted from his salary); but he asks for a complete postponement.

Note:According to his biography, Swoboda was in major financial trouble at the time.

Signed\"A. Svoboda\".

Format:23 x 14.7 cm.

Scope:1 1/2 of 4 pages described; on the last page there is an opening note.

Condition:Only the contents of the letter, without an envelope. More browned and stained, slightly creased, with tiny corner tears. Please also note the pictures!

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Albin Swoboda (* 13. November 1836 in Neustrelitz; † 4. August 1901 in Oberlößnitz) was an Austrian operetta singer (tenor) and actor.

Life: Swoboda came from a family of actors, his father was the actor and later opera singer Josef Swoboda (1806 in Prague - 1882 in Berlin), his mother was the dramatic singer Angelika Perechon (1816-1846). Albin came to Vienna in 1848. Against his father\'s wishes, he went to the theater in Josefstadt, then to Krakow, Salzburg and Linz. He emerged as a tenor with comical singing roles. In 1857 Johann Nestroy hired him to the Carltheater, where he had great success in folk plays. In 1859 he moved to the Theater an der Wien and played in operettas and musical plays. In 1874 he worked for a short time as the artistic director of the Ringtheater in Vienna, and later at the German Theater in Budapest.

After financial difficulties and a few stops in between, he went to the Dresden Court Theater in 1881, where he subsequently only worked as an actor.

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

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

Honor: In 1955, Swobodagasse in Vienna-Hietzing was named after him.

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