Carl Skoda

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Carl Ludwig Skoda , also Karl Skoda , (born January 1, 1884 in Vienna ; † October 28, 1918 there ) was an Austrian court actor .

Life

Grave site in the Dobling cemetery

Skoda, born in Vienna, had theater engagements in Munich , for example in the 1907/1908 season at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and at the Lobe Theater in Breslau .

In the course of his career, Skoda mainly played the role of “youthful hero and lover”. His stage roles included u. a. Sigismund in Life a Dream and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing . In the 1911/12 season he was a guest at the Alte Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Mortimer in Maria Stuart . In 1913, coming from Breslau, Hugo Thimig engaged him at the Vienna Hofburgtheater, which later became the Burgtheater . He was firmly engaged in the role of “First Hero” until his death in 1918. He was an uncle of the Burgtheatre actor Albin Skoda .

Carl Skoda died on October 28, 1918 at the age of 34 after a brief illness of the flu . Shortly before his death he married the court actress Aurelia Jaul from Dresden in an emergency wedding ; he had met Jaul in 1912 during her guest appearance at the Vienna Burgtheater. He was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 4, row 1, number 5) in Vienna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Castle actor Karl Skoda ; Obituary in: Deutsches Volksblatt ; Volume 30 (1918), page 43; partially visible on Google Books.
  2. ^ FA Günther: New Theater Almanach for the year 1909 . Page 330.
  3. ↑ FAGünther & Son: German stages Yearbook: Theater Historical year and address book . Edition 1912. Page 226. Bühnenverlag Ahn & Simrock.
  4. ↑ Karl Skoda in: Othmar Rudan: The old city theater in Klagenfurt, 1868-1910 . Publishing house of the State Museum for Carinthia. 1968. page 181; partially visible on Google Books.
  5. ↑ The theater . Volume 1st edition from 1910; Page 503.
  6. ^ Illustrated newspaper . Volume 137 (1911), page 247.
  7. ↑ MARIA STUART in: Helmar Rudan / Othmar Rudan: The City Theater in Klagenfurt: history and development . Publishing house of the State Museum for Carinthia. 1960. page 229; partially visible on Google Books.
  8. ↑ a b Skoda, Carl Short biography and photo of the grave, accessed on July 12, 2015
  9. ^ Karl Skoda in: Oskar Maurus Fontana : Albin Skoda: Genius between light and shadow . Helmut Deutsch Verlag 1962; Page 14f; especially page 18; partially visible on Google Books.
  10. ^ New Döblinger Friedhof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Skoda, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skoda, Carl Ludwig (full name); Skoda, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian court actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1918
Place of death Vienna