Curt Wahl

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Curt Wahl (born December 17, 1903 in Ulm as Kurt Wahl , † October 16, 1972 in Coburg ) was a German actor and director. From 1951 to 1968 he was administrative director at the Landestheater Coburg and from 1950 to 1968 head of the artistic management office of the Landestheater Coburg.

Life

Kurt Wahl was the son of Julius Wahl (* 1879 in Ulm ; † 1955 in Krefeld ) and Eugénie Gabriele Wahl, née Andt (* 1881 in Wanzenau , † mid-1958 in Krefeld). At the age of 17, he followed the family tradition as an actor in the fourth generation and made his stage debut in Münster as a “young lover”. This was followed by stage appearances in Kaiserslautern , Breslau , Basel and Flensburg , before he came to the Landestheater Coburg as an actor and director in 1937.

In 1926 he had married the actress Heimgard Elisabeth Henriette Müller (1905–1967) in Bad Kreuznach . The marriage resulted in a daughter (* 1927). In 1938 the family moved to Coburg. The marriage was divorced in August 1942. A few weeks later, Wahl married the actress Irene Neubauer (1913–2006) in Coburg . The two later had a daughter (* 1949).

In 1944 the Landestheater Coburg was closed due to the Second World War ; Wahl was used for military service. After his release from captivity, he returned to the State Theater, but was then subject to the occupational ban of the victorious powers. He took over in Coburg 1947-48 as head of the "Comedy Time" in the small Hofbräu Hall and returned again to August 1949 back to the State Theater, where he start of the season after the reopening of the first of the " Mephisto " in Goethe's Faust I played due under was seen as "Theater Director Striese" in The Robbery of the Sabine Women by Franz and Paul von Schönthan and in the role of " Philipp von Orléans " in Künneke's Liselott .

In 1950 he became head of the new artistic management office and continued to work as an actor. After the death of Oskar Grambs in 1951, he took over his business as administrative director. From then on he took care of the coordination of artistic, technical and economic matters. One of his great achievements was the establishment of a shuttle service within a radius of up to 100 km from Coburg, in order to be able to compensate for the loss of theater guests from the southern Thuringian region after the establishment of the inner German border . Wahl was retired at the end of 1968. Overall, he worked at the Landestheater Coburg for a period of 31 years.

Others

Wahl was a Freemason , as such "old chair master" of the lodge "Zur Fränkische Krone" in Coburg, for three years "old district master" of the district lodge Bavaria and formerly assigned "state grand master" (1967/68 and 1969/70), as well as a full member of the lodge umbrella association VGLvD .

Publications

  • 125 years of the Coburg State Theater. 1827-1952; Anniversary season 1952/53. Coburg, 1952.
  • From the Ducal Court Theater to the Coburg State Theater. In: Das Bayerland , 60 (1958), Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm, pp. 232-234.
  • From the ducal court theater to the state theater. In: From Coburg Stadt und Land , ed. by Paul Friedrich Scharke, Coburg 1958, pp. 107–110.
  • From the Ducal Court Theater to the Coburg State Theater. [Curt Wahl]. In: Thüringen , 7 (1960), 9/10, Siegen, 1960., pp. 8-11.
  • various programs, Landestheater Coburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ registry office Ulm, birth entry no. 1152/1903 (Stadtarchiv Ulm)
  2. ^ In: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Vol. 77, Druck und Kommissionsverlag FA Günther & Sohn, 1968. P. 250.
  3. ↑ Registry office Ulm / Donau, birth entry No. 1041/1879 (Ulm City Archives, birth records)
  4. ↑ (Diözesanarchiv Rottenburg-Stuttgart, KB 1056, BD. 155 FR Ulm 2/2, p. 55) Baptism entry: “Spurius of Ursula Mathilde Crescenzia Wahl, daughter of the shoemaker Julius Wahl, catholic: Julius, geb. Dec. 2, 1879, baptized Dec. 7, 1879. (See also Traubuch March 1904, p. 387 No 43.) "
  5. ^ Wanzenau registry office, district of Strasbourg-Land, district of Lower Alsace, Reichsland Elsass Lorraine 1871–1918 (digital copies : Archives Départementales du Bas-Rhin , France, Etat Civile en-ligne; original books in the Mairie de la Ville de Strasbourg, Etat Civile ) Birth entry no. 47/1881, Eugénie Gabriele Andt, b. on August 13, 1881.
  6. ↑ Bad Kreuznach registry office, No./1926
  7. ^ District Court of Coburg (Az .: 1942) on August 5, 1942
  8. ↑ Registry Office Coburg, marriage register number 151, 1942.
  9. ↑ Registry Office Herford, death register no. 797/2006
  10. ^ Curt Wahl on his 65th birthday. Neue Presse , December 16, 1968, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Wahl, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahl, Kurt (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1972
Place of death Coburg