Carl Napp

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Carl Napp at a performance in the Olympia-Theater Dortmund in February 1942

Carl Napp (* 20th August 1890 in Dusseldorf , † 21st March 1957 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ), actually Carl nohe , sometimes Karl Napp , was a German humorist , comedian , Revue director and - performer and actor .

Career

Carl Nohé worked as a theater actor from the age of twenty-five, as a front-line actor during the First World War, in the stage area and in prison camps. The aim and content of the performances in which Nohé or Napp, as he now called himself (probably because his real name sounded too French), was primarily entertainment. Napp organized and a. colorful evenings with funny interludes. In the mid-1920s, Karl Napp then worked as an actor on various stages in Berlin, but it was not until 1931 that his solo programs, including the Wagner revue “Never should you question me”, achieved success in the capital.

At the time of the Third Reich , Napp became known to a larger audience and was an actor in his own revues . His performances with self-composed and self-performed cabaret miniatures were particularly popular with the audience at Scala in Berlin . Napps' innocuous, as it was apolitical, humor was particularly popular with the National Socialists . "If I've been to Carl Napp's one evening and have really laughed so hard that I have to stick to my sides - yes, then I've recovered. I'll live another fourteen days from that. And the others feel the same", For example, said Robert Ley about the artist.

Napp's humorous lectures were spread not only through appearances in front of an audience but also on records and the radio ; two volumes of the album “Künstler am Rundfunk” dedicate a page with a picture to him in 1932 and 1936 and praise his achievements.

In 1939 his book "The most beautiful raisins from the Nappkuchen baked and served by Carl Napp" was published by Hamman-Verlag / Detmold. Carl Napp had a number of mostly short appearances as an actor in German feature films of the last years of the war and the post-war period, often in collaboration with Heinz Rühmann . Napp died in Berlin in 1957.

Trivia

In 1976 a theater and cabaret group was founded in Frankfurt am Main under the name "Karl Napp's Chaos Theater", from which the Provisional Frankfurter Fronttheater emerged in 1982 (later Frankfurter Fronttheater ).

Filmography

Audio documents

  • "The cyclist", Odeon O-26 724 (mx. Bi 1127), also Gloria GO10 810 a.
  • "You should never ask me (news about Richard Wagner)", Odeon O-26 724 (mx. Bi 1128), also Gloria GO10 810 b.
  • "... and in the evening in the Scala" (also with Otto Stenzel , Tino Rossi , Ernst Weiland , Werner Kroll), Vinyl-DoLP
  • "Program for Millions / 1923–1949" (from the series: 50 Years of German Radio - The Most Important and Interesting Highlights from Radio Programs of the Past), Vinyl-DoLP

See also

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Anita Wolfartsberger: The "middle piece" in the 'Wiener Werkel'. Master thesis. ( public.univie.ac.at ( Memento from July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's awakening. Cabaret under the swastika 1933–1945. Quadriga Verlag, Weinheim / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 101 (original quote from Ley)
  3. ↑ radiomusaeum.org  : Album “Künstler am Rundfunk”, Berlin, Rothgießer & Diesing, 1932, p. 250: “The excellent comedian Karl Napp is always a popular performer in the context of the“ Lustige Evenings ”of the Westfunks.“ Album “Artist im Rundfunk ”, part 4, Berlin, Rothgießer & Diesing, 1936, p. 44:“ He is one of the most popular comedians in German variety ”.
  4. ↑ Shellac record , put on. Berlin, December 29, 1932, to be heard on youtube
  5. ↑ Shellac record, put on. Berlin, December 29, 1932, to be heard on youtube or youtube
personal data
SURNAME Napp, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nohé, Carl (real name); Napp, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humorist, cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1957
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg