Carl Meinhard

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Carl Meinhard (1908)

Carl Meinhard , also: Karl, also: Meinhardt (born November 28, 1875 in Iglau , Austria-Hungary ; died February 12, 1949 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

Meinhard received his artistic training in his hometown of Prague . From 1898 he worked in Berlin, among other things, at the Lessing Theater . Between 1907 and 1924 he and Rudolf Bernauer directed the Meinhard-Bernauer'schen Bühnen: the Berlin theater , in 1911 the theater on Königgrätzer Straße , in 1913 the Komödienhaus and finally the theater on Nollendorfplatz .

Meinhard took part in several films between 1918 and 1933 and was involved in the filming of Emil and the Detectives in 1931 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he fled to Prague in 1933 . In 1936 he was brought to Vienna to join the supervisory board of the film production company Sascha-Messter Filmfabrik . At the end of May 1938 he fled again from the National Socialists to Prague. From there he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on October 24, 1942 . In 1944 he appeared in Kurt Gerron's camp film Theresienstadt - a documentary film from the Jewish settlement area .

In 1946 Meinhard emigrated to Argentina .

Fonts

  • The whimsical stories of the Kapellmeister Kreisler: Phantast . Melodrama based on ETA Hoffmann's life and stories; Music with partial use of motifs from Hoffmann's "Undine" and Mozart's "Don Juan" by EN by Rezniček . Text by Carl Meinhard; Rudolf Bernauer . Berlin: E. Reiss, 1922

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Published by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 244.
  • Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 344 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Meinhard, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinhard, Karl; Meinhardt, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1949
Place of death Buenos Aires