Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Voldemar Heyntze

 

H. was born on 23 June 1895 in Lodz, Poland, to Christian parents. His father was a [boyaynzshiner].

He learned in a folkshul. Afterwards he completed four classes of Broyz's gymnasium. For a short time he learned with the director of the local Yiddish theatre Adolph Klein, and for a few years acted with him in small roles. In wartime he crossed over into greater roles, while being known as Walter Wasserman in the German theatre

In 1916 he performed in Kuperman's Yiddish provincial troupe (then in Czestochowa), in which he performed in Yiddish as the "amateur" in Jacob Vaksman's "Malvinke vil azoy". After several weeks as part of Kuperman's troupe at Lodz's Skala Theatre as a conférencier, he soon after became engaged by Adler-Vaksman at the Grand Theatre. After acting there for a season, he participated in a tour across the province, acted later with Kompaneyets in Warsaw, and Adler-Serotsky in Minsk, afterwards with a united troupe in Bialystok, and nine years in Kovno's Yiddish theatre in which he, during these years, was director.

Specialty: Dramatic lover.


M. E.

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 610.
 

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