Caesar Beck
Caesar Beck ( December 9, 1850 in Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria - August 22, 1925 in Munich, German Empire ) was a German theater director as well as theater and silent film actor .
Life
Caesar Beck was the son of a tailor. He attended St. Ludwig's parish school with remarkable success. Heinrich Richter (1820–1898), actor at the Munich Court Theater, saw him in a student performance and advised him to pursue a stage career. Beck took part in the Franco-German War in 1871 as a volunteer. He then began his career at the Hoftheater in Munich and went via Augsburg to Frankfurt am Main, Hanover and Wiesbaden. Later he worked at the Imperial German Theater in Petersburg until its dissolution in 1890. Then he went to Breslau, Bremen, for a few years at the 'Berliner Theater' and the Residenztheater in Hanover. Beck was also successful in London. The press wrote about his role in Ibsen's Nora or Ein Puppenheim : "Mr. Caesar Beck was an ideal Helmer, the best I have ever seen." His subjects were: lovers, heroic roles and, at an older age, heroic fathers. He was married to Anna Beck-Radecke (1861–1918). In 1897 they separated. Beck was senior director at the Munich court theater for many years and died in his native city at the age of 74.
Filmography
- 1918: The Heart of the Highlands, directed by Hans Oberländer
- 1918: The gentleman with the mastiff, director: Franz Seitz
- 1919: Comedians, directed by Hans Oberländer
- 1920: The Last Night, directed by Wilhelm Thiele, Reinhold Bauer
- 1920: The witch of Lolaruh, directed by Felix Wildenhain
- 1920: But with the powers of fate, director: Carl Schönfeld
- 1921: Ciska Barna, the gypsy, director: Hans Tintner, Mr. Asam
- 1923: About law and love, directed by Josef Berger
- 1924: The tragedy of a public prosecutor, director: Josef Berger
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 68, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Caesar Beck at filmportal.de
- Caesar Beck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Caesar Beck at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen Jahrbuch 38, 1927, p. 89.
- ↑ List of all the pupils who in the school year 1859/60 in the German weekday schools in the royal capital and residence city of Munich made themselves worthy of public awards or prominent announcement , Munich 1860, p. 30.
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 831 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Theodor Fontane: Complete Works . Volume XXII / 3: Causeries on Theater. Third part. With the assistance of Kurt Schreinert, edited by Edgar Gross in conjunction with Rainer Bachmann. Munich: Nymphenburger 1967, p. 452 f.
- ^ The Athenaeum , London 1894, p. 650.
- ↑ Anna Beck-Radecke ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the 150th birthday at der-neue-merker.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Caesar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director as well as theater and silent film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1925 |
| Place of death | Munich , German Empire |