Carl Bath Joke

Carl Baditz ( October 20, 1824 in Ansbach - October 8, 1906 in Weimar ) was a German theater actor .

Life

As a child he had his first stage experience under the direction of his grandfather Friedrich Gustav Bathitz . At the age of ten he played the role of “Parisian good-for-nothing”. At the age of 14 he worked as a freelance actor in Lahr and took on roles as “nature boys” and servants. However, after half a year he returned to his grandfather, with whom he lived until 1847.

He then went on extensive journeys that took him to Rotterdam . In the early 1850s, he switched to comic and character roles and also worked as a vocal comedian. He worked in Flensburg from 1855 to 1858 , then in Mainz, Zurich, Basel, Bern, Augsburg and Linz . In 1867 he went to Königsberg and then to Berlin at the Woltersdorff Theater . After that he worked for a long time as an actor and director in Poznan , Heidelberg and Rostock.

At the beginning of the 1880s he had to give up his acting career because of a hearing impairment. In 1885 he was given a position of trust at the Lübeck City Theater , where he celebrated his sixtieth stage anniversary on November 3, 1894. Baditz returned to Hamburg for a short time and from 1896 lived in Marie-Seebach-Stift in Weimar.

In the 1860s he discovered the then sixteen-year-old theater actress and singer Ernestine Wegner .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 41, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Cooperative of German Stage Members: New Theater Almanac for 1907, Volume 18, FA Günther, Berlin, 1907, p. 181.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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