Carl Skoda
Carl Ludwig Skoda , also Karl Skoda , (born January 1, 1884 in Vienna ; † October 28, 1918 there ) was an Austrian court actor .
Life
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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
- ↑ a b c d Castle actor Karl Skoda ; Obituary in: Deutsches Volksblatt ; Volume 30 (1918), page 43; partially visible on Google Books.
- ^ FA Günther: New Theater Almanach for the year 1909 . Page 330.
- ↑ FAGünther & Son: German stages Yearbook: Theater Historical year and address book . Edition 1912. Page 226. Bühnenverlag Ahn & Simrock.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The theater . Volume 1st edition from 1910; Page 503.
- ^ Illustrated newspaper . Volume 137 (1911), page 247.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b Skoda, Carl Short biography and photo of the grave, accessed on July 12, 2015
- ^ 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.
- ^ New Döblinger Friedhof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
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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 |