Carl Schönfeld (actor, 1854)
Carl Emil Schönfeld , also Karl Emil Schönfeld ( February 4, 1854 in Pest - April 17, 1934 in Huebingen ) was an Austrian actor , director , theater director and writer .
Life
Carl Schönfeld, an autodidact actor , was already on stage at the age of 16. Initially on smaller Austrian stages (1870 to 1873), he was recommended to Heinrich Laube's Stadttheater Wien by a member of the Strakosch family of the “sugar barons” and engaged for three years. However , he was not related to his namesake Carl Schönfeld, who was also there at the same time . In 1876 he moved to the Residenztheater Berlin, then to the Hoftheater Hannover and for a short time he was employed at the City Theater in Breslau. In 1879 he went to the USA and played there for two years at the newly founded Thaliatheater. This was followed by a one-year tour through the USA from New York to San Francisco. After his return in 1882 he became a member of the Leipzig City Theater until 1885. This was followed by a year at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , Prague and Stuttgart. From there he went to Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as an actor, director and dramaturge at the United City Theaters from 1887 to 1895, at the height of his career. In September 1895 he was again in Berlin, first at the Berlin Theater, then from September 1896 at the New Theater, there not only as an actor, but also as senior director and deputy director. In 1900 he took over the management of St. George's Hall Theater in London, but he soon gave up this activity. In 1902 he returned to the New Theater in Berlin, and in 1903 he was senior director at the Trianon Theater . The Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater and the Volksoper , both Vienna, followed for a few years . In 1909 he was again in Berlin at the Kleiner Theater. Schönfeld, who was often without a permanent commitment, also wrote some undemanding comedies and pranks, sometimes with co-authors, which he then staged himself.
Around 1911 he withdrew entirely from the stage in order to devote himself to his literary work. Nevertheless, between 1911 and 1925 he worked as an actor, director and screenwriter for early German silent films.
He died in 1934.
Schönfeld was married to Hedwig Hahn (1853–1899) since 1885 . His daughter was the actress Adele Schönfeld-de-Saint-George (1899–1953).
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: O these men
- 1915: The gold source
- 1915: Through night to light
- 1915: The fight for the will
- 1915: Faith wins. A legend game
- 1915: About a woman
- 1916: Streusand family
- 1916: The warwolf
- 1916: Man, lend me your wife
- 1916: madness and madness
- 1916: a chill of death
- 1917: Sorrowful love
- 1918: Michel and Viktoria
- 1920: But with the powers of fate
- 1921: The stolen million dollar recipe
- 1921: Lurking death
- 1921: Man and Mammon
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 906 f.
Web links
- A. Hofmann-Wellenhof: Schönfeld Karl (Carl) Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 76.
- Carl Schönfeld at filmportal.de
- Carl Schönfeld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönfeld, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schönfeld, Carl Emil (full name); Schönfeld, Karl Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor, director, theater director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1934 |
| Place of death | Huebingen |