Franz Thomé

When his mother remarried, the family moved back to Vienna, where he began his theater career at the age of 17.

[1] In 1847 he was engaged by Count Skarbek after Lemberg in his newly built theatre as artistic director, but returned to Ljubljana, Trieste and Klagenfurt as early as 1848.

A saying of this time - based on the excellent stage design he supported - was: One must hear the prophet[2] in Vienna and see it in Gratz."

Some well-known actors, like the later Viennese Burgschauspieler Konrad Adolf Hallenstein and the singers Franz Innozenz Nachbaur and Eduard Bachmann, he brought into his ensemble.

A foundation of Thomé was the New Town, Prague theatre he built at his own expense, from 1868 he also directed the stage of Linz.