- Father of actress 'Helene Thimig' and actors Hans Thimig and Hermann Thimig.
- Another station in his long-standing career was the Theater in der Josefstadt.
- He was among others engaged at the Burgtheater from 1874-1923 and became the director from 1912-1917.
- He worked in a grocery and attended a trade school before making several appearances on stage as an amateur in his home town.
- In 1897 he directed his first play, and from 1912 to 1917 he was also director of the Burgtheater, from which he had long since obtained a contract for life plus entitlement to a pension.
- The actor Hugo Thimig belonged to the most important stage actors in Austria in the second half of the 19th century.
- Hugo Thimig only appeared seldom in front of the camera.
- Thimig was the founding father of one of Austria's most famous theatrical families, but was born in Dresden, the son of a shoemaker.
- As early as 1881 he was appointed Hofrat.
- After his retirement in 1924 at the age of seventy he moved to the Theater in der Josefstadt, run by his future son-in-law Max Reinhardt, where he stayed until 1933, when he finally withdrew into private life, aged almost 80.
- He began his professional life as a commercial clerk, beside it he already played in an amateur group.
- His grave is in the Sievering Cemetery in the 19th district of Vienna, next to that of his wife Franziska (née Hummel; 1867-1944).
- A street - Thimiggasse - is named after Hugo Thimig in Währing, the 18th district of Vienna.
- He made his professional debut in October 1872 in the town theatre of Bautzen. Within only two years, via the theatres in Zittau, Kamenz and Freiberg, Saxony, and the Lobe-Theater in Breslau, he obtained an engagement at the Burgtheater, and arrived in Vienna in 1874 to take it up. A week before his 20th birthday he gave his first performance there as Didier in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's Die Grille.
- Thimig was a passionate collector of theatrical items and memorabilia. His collection of documents and objects formed the basis of the collections of the Austrian Theatre Museum in the Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna.
- 1872 followed the beginning of his professional career with Shakespeare's "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" as Lanzelot Gobbo. Hugo Thimig was celebrated as a new discovery and from 1874 Vienna became his field of activity where he was admitted to the Burgtheater as a member for life.
- He received in 1944 Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna (Ehrenring der Stadt Wien).
- The Theater in der Josefstadt was known in Vienna in the 1920s as the "Thimig Theatre", as besides the father, his three acting children were also engaged there: Helene Thimig, at first the partner and later the wife of Reinhardt, and her younger brother Hermann Thimig. The youngest of the three, Hans Thimig, joined them a little later. The entire family from then on worked in either the Burgtheater or the Theater in der Josefstadt.
- Thimig began as a "shy lover", but soon developed into both comic and serious character roles.
- Hugo Thimig got the Goethe medal for art and science in 1942 on the occasion of his 70-year anniversary, awarded by Adolf Hitler.
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