Albert Paul (actor)

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Albert Paul (by Jan Vilímek , 1890)

Albert Paul , actually Albert Fränkel (born February 2, 1856 in Berlin , † August 5, 1928 in Dresden ) was a German actor .

Life

theatre

Paul was the son of the long-time editor of the gazebo , Albert Fränkel. At the age of 18 Paul began to act as an acting trainee in the theater; he performed his first role on November 14, 1874 in Schiller's Maria Stuart at the Leipzig City Theater. The young mime moved to the Meiningen Court Theater the following year . Dissatisfied with the roles offered to him on these established stages, Paul then turned to touring theater. He traveled both Bavaria ( Passau , Amberg , Straubing ) and Mecklenburg ( Rostock and Stralsund ) until he returned to Berlin in 1877. There Albert Paul took on a permanent engagement at the National Theater . His very first part was the Earl of Essex.

A number of strong and powerful character roles followed: Paul played, among others, Karl Moor, Uriel Acosta, Faust, Marquis Posa and Count Hammerstein. In 1879 he went to the Mainz City Theater , immediately afterwards for a detour to Prague . After another stopover in Berlin, Albert Paul followed a call to the Imperial Russian Court Theater in St. Petersburg in 1881 . In May of the following year, this was followed by a flying visit to the newly founded German Theater in Moscow . His subject was now that of bon vivants and lovers, but Paul continued to take on great character roles. He was reportedly assassinated in Russia because of mistaken identity.

In August 1883 the Berliner followed a call to the Hamburg Thalia Theater . The next stage was Karlsruhe , where he tied himself to the court theater there from 1885 to 1888. In April 1887 he went again, initially only as a guest, to the Hofbühne in Dresden , whose ensemble Paul joined in 1888. After several years of guest performance, Paul returned to the Hamburg Thalia Theater in 1901. In the same decade Paul found himself again in Berlin and played at the Lustspielhaus and Komödienhaus until the First World War, and after the war (at the beginning of the 1920s) also at the Kleiner Theater.

Movie

Albert Paul joined the film very early on. In the 1910s and 1920s he played mostly high-ranking characters such as the scientist Dr. Hansen, creator of Homunculus in the film of the same name , Prince Sumalow in The Caucasian Woman , Baron Winterstein in The Struggle for Marriage , a Minister in The 999th Night , an Archbishop in The Mutes of Portici , a Senate President in Father Voss and a Duke in The Bastard .

Most recently Paul was on the road again as a guest artist between individual film engagements. During one of these trips he died at the age of 72 in Dresden.

Filmography

  • 1911: The traitor
  • 1914: The second mother
  • 1914: General von Berning
  • 1914: About love and honor
  • 1914: The fatherland calls
  • 1915: The war brought peace
  • 1915: The Riddle of Sensenheim
  • 1915: The gold source
  • 1916: The Klerk case
  • 1916: The other's child
  • 1916: The death of Erasmus
  • 1916: The Way of Tears
  • 1916: The locked door
  • 1916: Dorrit's marital happiness
  • 1916: Homunculus
  • 1917: The Caucasian
  • 1917: The past takes revenge
  • 1917: The locked door
  • 1917: Princess Wolkowska's lace shawl
  • 1917: Death on the violin
  • 1917: The Lord of Hohenstein Castle
  • 1918: The Path That Leads to Damnation, Part 1
  • 1918: The father's fault
  • 1918: Love and Life, 1st part
  • 1918: Doctor Palmore. The creeping death
  • 1918: love sacrifice
  • 1919: The Schwabemädle
  • 1919: The Secret of the America Dock
  • 1919: The struggle for marriage, 1st part
  • 1919: The path that leads to damnation, part 2: hyenas of lust
  • 1919: The 999th night
  • 1920: masks
  • 1920: The Heir to Carlington
  • 1921: Fateful Day
  • 1921: The governor of death
  • 1922: The woman with the ten masks
  • 1922: The Mute from Portici
  • 1922: The Pearls of Lady Harrison
  • 1922: The Mute from Portici
  • 1922: who throws the first stone
  • 1924: Father Voss
  • 1925: Bismarck, 1st part
  • 1925: The bastard
  • 1926: The Prince and the Dancer
  • 1927: harassed women

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 752 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fränkel, Albert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1928
Place of death Dresden