Gender:
Male
Throughout his career Hermann Florack contributed an unknown number of original compositions to the various companies and troupes he worked for.
Much of Floracks' touring during the late-nineteenth century was in the company of his wife. Although identified after her death as Phoebe Florack, aged 66, it is unclear she was the performer known as Madam Florack. In this respect the Kerang Times and Swan Hill Gazette ('Caught at Last,' 19 March 1880, p.2) records that he had two wives, one in Sydney and one in Adelaide.
Florack was the subject of many newspaper reports in 1910 following the sinking of the steamer Pericles off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia. He and his wife were passengers, reportedly on their way to London. The articles include reports relating to his supposed actions when the ship was being abandoned, his response to the misinformation, and his humorous witness testimony during the subsequent court inquiry into the disaster.
See for example: 'A Would-Be Salvor : Passenger Forced to Leave Ship.' Age 4 April 1910, p.8 'A Denial and Other Things : Mr Hermann Florack Speaks.' West Australian 5 April 1910, pp.5-6; 'The Salvage Hero Entertains Court.' Daily News (Perth) 11 April 1910, p.2.
No details regarding Hermann Florack's life and career beyond 1924 have been firmly established to date. His wife's death notice, published in September that year, indicates that he was still alive, but his name does not appear again in any newspapers currently available via Trove, the National Library of Australia's digitised newspaper service.
