!!!Girardi, Alexander

Girardi, Alexander, b. Graz (Styria), Dec. 5, 1850, 
d. Vienna, April 20, 1918 actor. From 1871 at the Vienna 
Strampfer Theater (with J.  Gallmeyer), from 1874-1896 at the Theater 
an der Wien, where he became one of the most famous young performers 
and singing comedians; from 1896/97 at the Carltheater, from 1898-1900 
character actor at the Deutsches Volkstheater; guest performances at 
the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Raimundtheater, the Johann-Strauss 
Theater and the Stadttheater in Vienna as well as in Berlin, Hamburg 
and Dresden; two months before his death, debut at the Vienna 
Burgtheater as Fortunatus Wurzel in Raimund's "The Peasant as a 
Millionaire" ("Der Bauer als Millionaer"); character actor in Raimund 
plays (Valentin) and comic actor in operettas by J. Strauss, K. 
Milloecker, E. Eysler and F. Lehár; film actor (et al. 1913 
"Der Millionenonkel").

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Work: Ach, da muss ich sehr bitten (in: Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 
4. 12. 1910).

!Literature
K. F. Nowak, A. G., 1908; H. Klang, A. G. 
Leben und Buehnentaetigkeit, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1937; R. Holzer, 
A. G. und das Theater an der Wien. Die Wiener Vorstadtbuehnen, 
1951.


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