Already at an early age, people became aware of his voice, and it was first Carl Speigler and later Fritz Plank who put him on stage.
He took lessons from Carl Hermann and Franz Krückl and started his stage career in 1882 in Strasbourg, where he made his debut as "Ruggiero" in La Juive and stayed there four years.
In 1900, he made a guest appearance at the Oper Frankfurt in June and at the Hoftheater in Vienna in November.
In 1914, he went to the court opera in Vienna, where he had great success as "Hans Sachs" in Die Meistersinger.
Guest performances brought him to the court theatre in Karlsruhe (1902), to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1903-1910), to Cologne (1905-1908), then to Dresden (1906), Munich and Stuttgart, to the German theatre in Prague (1907, 1909) and Weimar.