For those of you interested in the life of Adolf Tefner, whom I think was
involved with Sidi Thal's tour, here is a partial biography for him that I
translated from Yiddish to English. It only covers his life through the
early 1930s.
T. was born on 13 February 1908 in Chernalitsye (Czernelica), Galicia. His
father was a "vinkl-shreyber (corner-writer)." A year later he took his
family to Czernowitz, where T.'s father opened a bakery.
He learned in a folkshul and studied Yiddish courses with his father. He
sung with a cantor, afterwards in a chorus of the great synagogue. The
chorus director Yosel Tavtshay, who also was chorus direction in Axelrad's
troupe, took him in to the theatre and had him play in children's roles.
During the war he switched his studies in the city gymnasium, T. went to
Vienna, where he worked in a liquor factory and was an understudy and helper
with decorations in the German Karl Theatre. Afterwards he sang there in the
chorus and also acted in small roles. Due to military service he changed his
stage career. He acted again at the end of 1918 in the Czernowitz German
State Theatre, afterwards in Axelrad's Yiddish troupe, debuting as
"Beynushl" in "Pintele yid." Later T. led a management partnership with
Sarah Kaner, afterwards he acted with Clara Young and for a long time in
Bucharest, leading in a partnership with Leon Berger a troupe in Iasi,
touring with Sarah Kaner across Galicia, Poland, afterwards in
Czechoslovakia , participating in Yiddish "revistas" in Bucharest, acting in
various troupes in Romania, Poland and Berlin, in Paris and London with
Blumental and a season in South Africa.
In 1928 he acted in Bucharest, and later he performed with a Yiddish troupe
in Iasi, later guest-starring across the Romanian province.
Specialty: Fat- and character-comic.
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www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/T/tefner-adolf.htm
Regards,
Steve Lasky
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