Arthur Vollmer

Arthur Vollmer 1899

Tomb in the Ballenstedt cemetery

Arthur Vollmer (born March 2, 1849 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 12, 1927 in Ballenstedt ) was a German actor .

Life

Vollmer, son of the actors Theodor Vollmer (1817–1899) and Marie von Marra , studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory . After graduating, he began a stage career. The first appearance in 1869 at the theater in Speyer was followed by engagements in Zweibrücken , Neustadt, Hof (Saale) and Bayreuth . He played Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos , Ferdinand , Konradin and Max Piccolomini . His talent as a character comedian was discovered by chance in the posse The Traveling Student . After the Gera Theater , he came to the German Theater in Prague in 1870 . Recommended to the Berlin Court Theater , he was appointed to the Berlin Schauspielhaus in 1874. With the support of Max Grube , he gained wide recognition not only as a comedian , but also as a composer and conductor . With Adalbert Matkowsky and Arthur Kraußeneck he formed the East Prussian triumvirate of Berlin actors. Theodor Fontane admired him.

“He is by far the richest talent that we have at the royal. Own stage. A real actor, a real artist. The audience thinks he is there to make people laugh, but how little justice is done to those who only see his art in it. Certainly he has a very important comic nature, but far beyond the mere comedian he is a character. He is different in every role (and usually in what roles!). He constantly creates new shapes and lets his personality, if the shape to be created so demand, perish in his realms. "

- Theodor Fontane

The Arthur Vollmer collection is preserved in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

student

Hans Wassmann

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1073 f., ( Digitized ).

Web links

Picture by Arthur Vollmer ( Memento from February 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Arthur Vollmer Collection in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

↑ Date of death according to the Ballenstedt registry office
^ The traveling student. or the Donnerwetter, Posse with singing in two acts, reworked by Cornet Musik by A. Methfessel and other composers.
↑ Birgit Ahrens: Emil Orlik and the theater.
^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
↑ Arthur Vollmer Collection (Academy of Arts)

personal data
SURNAME	Vollmer, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1927
Place of death	Ballenstedt

[1] Date of death according to the Ballenstedt registry office

[2] The traveling student. or the Donnerwetter, Posse with singing in two acts, reworked by Cornet Musik by A. Methfessel and other composers.

[3] Birgit Ahrens: Emil Orlik and the theater.

[4] Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

[5] Arthur Vollmer Collection (Academy of Arts)