Carl Malß

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Carl Balthasar Malß
Grave of Carl Malß in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Carl Balthasar Malß (born December 5, 1792 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 3, 1848 there ) was a German poet, architect and theater director.

Life

Malß completed a commercial apprenticeship in Lyon and took part in the campaign against France in 1814/15 as a war volunteer . On his return he became an architect, but then turned to the theater. In 1820 his comedy "Die Entführung oder der alten Bürger-Capitain, a Frankfurt heroic-Borjerlich comedy in two acts" was printed for the first time and premiered on August 13, 1821 with actor Samuel Friedrich Hassel in the title role at the Frankfurt Theater. It was the first publicly performed piece in Frankfurt dialect and was a great success with the audience. Hassel played the role for over 45 years until March 26, 1866, without the slightest change.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe “highly recommended” the piece, which Malß expressed in the preface to the fourth edition published in 1833 as follows:

"To the hot mer from secure source, that old Mr. Geethé driwwer laughed."

Ludwig Börne called the citizen captain “a true masterpiece; Faithfulness to nature cannot be pursued any further. "

The “ citizen captain ” is still occasionally performed today. Of the six other plays by Malß, the “Frankfurter Lokal-Sketch in four pictures” from 1832, Mr. Hampelmann or Die Landpartie nach Königstein, has remained on stage to this day. Both pieces were already part of the repertoire of the Frankfurt Volkstheater, which opened in 1971 .

Because of the great success of the country party , he had the pieces Herr Hampelmann im Eilwagen (Hampelmanniade in six pictures) and " Herr Hampelmann sucht ein Logis " (local comedy in five pictures) follow in 1833/34 . They made the term jumping jack proverbial, so that it soon became at home in the rest of Germany.

Together with Guhr and Meck , Malß had been one of the tenants of the Frankfurt National Theater since 1842 . He committed suicide on June 3, 1848 out of desperation over the theater's financial difficulties. According to other sources, he died as a result of his asthma . He was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

A street in the so-called Dichterviertel in the Frankfurt district of Dornbusch was named after Malß . He was a member of the Frankfurter Masonic Lodge Zur Einigkeit .

literature

Works

  • The kidnapping or the old citizen-captain, a Frankfurt heroic-bourgeois comedy in two acts. Along with explanatory appendix. Friedrich, Frankfurt am Main 1821. ( digitized version of the 3rd edition, 1829 )
  • Meet at Tivoli, or cobblers and tailors as rivals. Local posse with singing in two acts. Sauerlander, Frankfurt a. M. 1832. First performance: Frankfurt am Main, April 9, 1832. ( digitized version )
  • Mr. Hampelmann or Die Landparthie nach Königstein. Varrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M. 1833. First performance: Frankfurt am Main, November 26, 1832. ( digitized version of the 3rd edition, 1836 )
  • Mr. Jumping Jack in the express car. Hampelmanniade in 6 pictures. First performance: Frankfurt am Main, December 30, 1833.
  • Mr. Hampelmann is looking for accommodation. Local comedy in five pictures. Varrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M. 1834. First performance: Frankfurt am Main, February 2, 1834. ( digitized version )
  • The country party to Königstein. Frankfurt restaurant sketch in four pictures. Varrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M. 1834. ( digitized version )
  • The maid cooks. Local pose in an act. Varrentrapp, Frankfurt a. M. 1837. First performance: Frankfurt am Main, February 16, 1835. ( digitized 2nd edition 1837 )

The pieces appeared individually in several editions. A complete edition first appeared in Frankfurt am Main in 1850, including a dictionary of the Frankfurt dialect .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Heinrich Emil von Oven : The first municipal theater in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1872, p. 56 ffhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D1gtWAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA56~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%2056%26%23x202f%3Bff.~PUR% 3D .
personal data
SURNAME Malß, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malß, Carl Balthasar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, architect and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1848
Place of death Frankfurt am Main