Alfred Schmasow

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Alfred Schmasow (born January 5, 1863 in Berlin ; † May 16, 1924 there ) was a German actor , comedian and author .

Live and act

Schmasow, son of a bank clerk, learned the acting trade at traveling theaters and in the provinces. He got his first permanent engagement in Essen . He found further employment in Cologne , Aachen , Chemnitz , Görlitz and Breslau . In 1888 he came to Berlin at the Adolf Ernst Theater, where local posse and vaudeville became his profession. Here he appeared in cheerful folk plays and pranks. From 1890 he played at the Central Theater , after which he moved to the ensembles of the Friedrich Wilhelmstadt and the Belle Alliance Theater . He also appeared in the comic subject from 1894 at the Schiller Theater . Here he was able to make a name for himself as a performer of Berlin types from the craft and petty bourgeois milieu. He particularly liked the comedies of Adolph L'Arronge , such as B. The registrar on trips or Hasemann's daughters , and from Heinrich Wilken , like the much-played farce Kyritz-Pyritz . For reciting couplets he showed himself gifted; they should soon become his specialty.

Schmasow also worked on the still silent film . In 1916 he wrote the screenplay for the one-act play Das Loch in der Pfanne based on Fritz Reuter's model , in 1918 he played Udo von Buldern in the three-act play Das Blitzmädel , and until 1923 he worked in a number of silent films, mainly as a small actor in Detective and social dramas. He was just as convincing as a bailiff, prison guard and crematorium servant as he was a professor or vagabond. He played a detective several times.

Schmasow became known beyond acting as the author of original couplets and stage sketches; Already at the turn of the century he published a selection of his couplets under the title Laughing Faces . Many of them, like folk songs, are still sung today without having to recall their author.

From him z. B. the words to Julius Einödshofer's well-known hit from " little Cohn " (1902) and to the popular Berlin cross polka "You see, he's coming"; In the same year Victor Hollaender set his travel song "The Husband's Train to Heringsdorf" to music. During the First World War he was also not averse to hearty patriotic propaganda texts ("Druff, boys! Clench your fist!", "Manage the races!").

Collective editions of his original lectures were reissued again and again under titles such as Hundred Laughing Successes or Ränke and Schwänke until the time after the Second World War .

Schmasow died at the age of 61 on May 16, 1924 in Berlin.

Works

  • Op. 15 (1890): The Lieutenant from the India-Fiber-Compagnie: Original couplet with piano accompaniment by Alfred Schmasow . Music by Eugen Philippi
  • Op. 34 (1895): Here we come together: Original Couplet by Alfred Schmasow . Music by Richard Krause
  • Op. 41 (1895): together with Eugen Philippi: Der Tempelhofer. Hilarious dance polka for Littke-Carlsen .
  • 1895: plenty of humor . Jäger publishing house, Berlin.
  • 1903: a noble farmer. Allegory . (= Möller's library for health care, education and public education. Issue 16). Verlag Möller, Berlin.
  • 1908: Caviar for the people. Humor by Alfred Schmasow . Published by F. Harnic & Co., Berlin.
  • 1908: with Paul Lincke: The funny woman from the Spreewald . Rhinelander. In: A fun trip to the Spreewald! Burlesque with singing in 2 pictures. Repertoire piece of the Apollotheater in Berlin; Apollo-Verlag, Berlin
  • 1913: schemes and swindles! Humorist. Original lectures in poetry a. Prose by Alfred Schmasow. 2nd Edition. Möller, Oranienburg / Berlin.
  • 1913: Our blue jackets in Kiautschou: Schwank (= Military Theater Album No. 93) 2nd edition. Publishing house Volger & Klein, Landsberg a. W.
  • 1923: The Torn One . Posse in three acts by Johann Nestroy , reworked by Alfred Schmasow; Reclam UB3626. Verlag Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig 1930; First edition 1923.
  • around 1950: with Rudolf Presber, Karl Müller-Hausen: Hundreds of laughter successes - the funny lecture book of the acclaimed hits. 9th edition. Verlag W. Möller, Berlin (around 1950)
  • Alfred Schmasow's poem "Der Schnarcher" even appeared in America in the German-speaking Indiana Tribüne , Volume 20, Number 113, January 10, 1897.
  • "The Sacrifice of Vesuvius": Funny verses about a honeymoon (n.d.)

Filmography

  • 1918: Kitty, also: Komteß Kitty
  • 1918: The lightning girl
  • 1920: The adventurer of Paris
  • 1920: the unrecognized
  • 1920: The black guest
  • 1920: The love cure
  • 1920: Suesslein marriage office
  • 1920: human hyenas
  • 1920: Nihil Nemo Cockatoo
  • 1920: The curse of mankind , 1st part: The daughter of work
  • 1920: Apache Revenge , Part 3: The Lost Million
  • 1920: Apache Revenge , Part 4: The Ape Man
  • 1920: Satan's feast
  • 1921: Rats of the Big City , Part 1: The Mysterious Night
  • 1921: Monte Carlo
  • 1921: From the depths of the big city
  • 1921: The golden network
  • 1921: Terpsichore. The power of dance
  • 1921: Man - don't pump your tailcoat
  • 1921: The conscience of the world , 1st part: shade plants of the big city
  • 1921: The Mill of Dread
  • 1921: The enigmatic twelve
  • 1921: The dead hotel
  • 1922: The good-for-nothing
  • 1922: Mrs. Clarissa's men
  • 1922: Mr. Papa
  • 1922: youth
  • 1922: Hotel to the golden angel
  • 1922: The cigarette countess
  • 1923: quarantine

Sound documents (selection)

  • The DNB's music catalog lists 8 titles by Schmasow. At Leimbach 14 are recorded.
  • Edison cast gold roller # 15 127 Look, doll, my sweet little fairy! (Hagen) Aufgen. Berlin, September 15, 1904
  • Edison Goldgußwalze # 15 211 Der Allerwelts-Singer (Schmasow) Aufgen. Berlin, November 15, 1904
  • Grammophon 21 160, 21 161 (Matr. 7369 ½ L, 7370 ½ L) In the zoological garden: 1. u. Part 2. Voiced by Alfred Schmasow u. Ensemble with orchestral accompaniment, Berlin
  • Grammophon 21 232, 21 233 (Matr. 12 742 ½ u, 12 743 ½ u) On Potsdamer Platz, 1st and 2nd part
  • Gramophone 41 119 (Matr. 428) cyclist's register
  • Grammophon 41 120 (Matr. 487) Chatting from school
  • Grammophon 42 575 (Matr. 489) In Charlottenburg am Knie, Couplet (1901, text by Alfred Schmasow, music by Paul Lincke )
  • Anker Record No. 790 (Matr. 02124 and 02123) Wannsee experiences: From the family pool, I. u. Part II. Humorous scene with orchestra. Alfred Schmasow u. Hermann Picha , Berlin
  • International Zonophone Company X-21 121 (Matr. 4992 h and 4993 h) Nunne and Nante in a balloon: humorous scene, Part I (Schmasow) Spoken by Alfred Schmasow and Paul Lehmann, Berlin. German. Talking.
  • International Zonophone Company X-22 907 (Matr. 13 597 u) When the buttercups bloom, by Eugen Jürich. Sung by Alfred Schmasow with orchestral accompaniment, Berlin. Comic w. Orch.
  • International Zonophone Company X-22 908 (Matr. 13 598 u) Im Storchnest, by A. Behling. Sung by Alfred Schmasow with orchestral accompaniment, Berlin. German. Comic w. Orch.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 889 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Fritz Backhaus: “Didn't you see little Cohn?” A hit from the turn of the century. In: Helmut Gold, Georg Heuberger (Ed.): Canceled: Postcards hostile to Jews. Based on the Wolfgang Haney Collection. Umschau / Braus, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8295-7010-4 , pp. 235-240.
  • J. Bielefeld Verlag (Hrsg.): Berlin and Die Berliner. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95454-334-2 , p. 138. ("Alfred Schmasow, Johanniterstr. 15, actor at the Berlin theater. Comedian")
  • "Brandenburgia.": Monthly newspaper of the Society for Local Studies of the Province of Brandenburg in Berlin, Volume 15 [Author: Brandenburgia, Society for Local History of the Province of Brandenburg, Berlin; Contributors: Brandenberg, Berlin. Märkisches provinzial-museum] Verlag P. Stankiewicz, 1907, p. 34.
  • Germany: Monthly for the whole culture. Volume 7, Verlag CA Schwetschke and Son, 1906, p. 768.
  • Deutscher Bühnenverein (Ed.): Stage and World: Monthly for the German art and intellectual life. Volume 13, part 2. Verlag Bühne und Welt, Berlin 1911, p. 84.
  • German magazine: Independent monthly issues for the political and intellectual shaping of the present. Volume 23, issues 19-24, Berlin 1910, p. 29.
  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Bern 1956, p. 2511.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. 1st edition. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, DNB 911350551 .
  • Ossip Demetrius Potthoff, Georg Kossenhaschen: Cultural history of the German restaurant: comprehensive Germany, Austria, Switzerland and German Bohemia. New edition. Verlag Olms Presse, 1933, ISBN 978-3-487-08332-2 , p. 479.
  • Lukas Richter: The Berlin hit song - representation, documents, collection. With e. Register new ed. v. German Folksong Archive. (= Folksong Studies. Volume 4). Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-6350-5 , pp. 174, 444, 449, 458. (here written “Schmarsow”; first edition 1969).
  • Ludwig Sittenfeld: History of the Breslau Theater from 1841 to 1900. Preuß & Jünger, Breslau 1909. (Reprint. Forgotten Books, London 2013).
  • George Steinmetz: The Devil's Handwriting. Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. (= Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning ). University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-77244-8 , p. 586. (English)
  • His Master's Voice, Gramophone Magazine. Volume 2 (= publications of the Eichstätt University Library. Volume 16). Verlag H. Schneider, 1992, ISBN 3-7952-0705-3 , p. 106.
  • Lutz Thamm: Memorabilia: the museum as social memory. (= German past: "Places of the history of Berlin", editor Udo Gösswald, Heimatmuseum Neukölln. Volume 59). Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1991, p. 111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Posse with singing in 5 pictures. Premiere: 1882 Berlin, Belle-Alliance-Th., Was made in 1931 as a sound film "Kyritz-Pyritz or Die fidele Sängerfahrt" with actors such as Max Adalbert and Paul Westermeier , cf. Kyritz - Pyritz at filmportal.deTemplate: Filmportal.de Title / Maintenance / Various IDs in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  2. ↑ See Lukas Richter p. 174 and 444, illustration of the sheet music title “Daase, Rudolph: You see, there he comes, he takes long strides! Berliner Kreuz-Polka with humorous text by Alfred Schmasow (along with instructions for dancing), Op. 494. Publisher: Emil Wehde, Berlin «at abebooks.de (accessed on February 22, 2017).
  3. ↑ Title page and text shown at usedomspotter.de
  4. ↑ See picture postcard with couplet text “Father's Dreibund”, around 1914 stiticflickr.com
  5. ↑ mainly in the publishing house of Wilhelm Möller in Berlin. He has so far published 70 publications within the years from 1906 to 1993, mainly in Oranienburg, Berlin-Hermsdorf and Oranienburg near Berlin, cf. buch-info.org ( Memento from February 22, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ a b SLUB Dresden
  7. ↑ Lukas Richter: The Berliner Gassenhauer - representation, documents, collection . Ed .: German Folk Song Archive. (= Folksong Studies. Volume 4). Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-6350-5 , pp. 96, 266, 448 f. (First edition 1969).
  8. ^ SLUB Dresden
  9. ↑ Title shown at amazon.com (accessed on February 22, 2017).
  10. ↑ See in.gov
  11. ↑ Text at frohefestefiegen.de . Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  12. ↑ zum.de

Remarks

  1. ^ "The young comedian Alfred Schmasow excelled in comedy and farce" wrote Ludwig Sittenfeld about him in 1909 on p. 258 of his history of the Breslau theater
  2. ↑ According to Berlin and Die Berliner. On p. 138 he settled in the Kreuzberg district at Johanniterstraße 15.
  3. ↑ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Schmasow, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, comedian and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1924
Place of death Berlin