Emil Messthaler

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Emil Meßthaler (by Jan Vilímek , 1896)

Emil Meßthaler , also Emil Messthaler (born June 20, 1869 in Landshut , † January 7, 1927 in Munich ) was a German actor, director and theater director .

Life

Messthaler was the son of a wealthy hotel owner. He began his stage career in 1891 at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 1893 he went to Dresden as a youthful hero and lover in the role of the subject .

In 1894 he founded the Munich guest Ensemble Theater of modernity with which he on tour in Leipzig , Halle (Saale) , Hanover , Bremen , Aachen , Wiesbaden and several cities in the Netherlands has performed. Later in Munich, with the help of donors, he realized his dream of a “fairy palace”, which had been cherished since 1894, as a permanent home for his drama troupe and was able to open the exclusive German theater , the “Palace of Smiles” - with premises on September 26, 1896 for 6,000 people, including cafes, wine and beer restaurants with terraces and winter gardens, five eateries, a billiards room, a theater with 2,000 seats, in which Messthaler wanted to establish his modern theater , a concert hall, a smoking room, 20 shops, two bowling alleys and other more. However, the press soon reported of inaccuracies and frauds on the part of the "lucky knight" Messthaler, who had already received his director's salary from October 1, 1895 and started working as a theater manager. The immense construction sums became known, but the hoped-for visitor numbers did not materialize. After just one month, on October 30, 1896, Messthaler was terminated without notice by his donors. A year later, the theater was foreclosed and operated by the circus owner Hugo Oertel (1858- ??) as a pure entertainment venue.

During these years, Meßthaler was a member of the regular artists' table in the famous Torggelstube , an adjoining room of the Hofbräuhaus .

Intimate theater Nuremberg

Messthaler, "certainly a clever head", but "a theater man loved by a few and avoided by many", moved to Nuremberg , the only German city without theater censorship. There he bought the Wolfsschlucht variety theater in Theatergasse and converted it into an intimate theater based on the model of the theater of the same name founded by Max Halbe in Munich in 1895 . After its opening on December 22, 1900, he played himself prefers decadent , pathological characters and was the was the youngest theater director in Germany Frank Wedekind pieces Pandora's Box (1904) and Dance of Death (1906) for the premiere . Messthaler had been friends with Wedekind since 1895/1896 and became his sponsor. Wedekind described his sponsor as a “pioneer of modern German poetry” and took the enterprising theater man as a model for his Marquis von Keith . Tilly Wedekind said of him: "He was a handsome man, but too slick for my taste."

In 1908, Meßthaler leased his theater, went on tour with his ensemble and had his new cabaret theater Bonbonnière am Kosttor built in Munich , "Munich's Nobel Cabaret". But he also gave up this small theater in 1911 and sold it to Hans Gruß at the turn of the year .

Fonts

  • Messthaler's collection of modern dramas , M. Höher Verlag, Munich 1895
  • The theater of the modern (Direction: Emil Meßthaler) in Leipzig , Verlag Regel, Leipzig 1894

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertrud Maria Rösch: The comedy from 18. – 20. Century; Theory and history . P. 2
  2. ^ Sascha Kiefer: Wedekind, The Marquis of Keith . lpm.uni-sb.de ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lpm.uni-sb.de
  3. ↑ Frauke Deissner-Jenssen: The Tenth Muse. Cabaret artists tell . Henschelverlag Art and Society, 1982
  4. ^ The magazine for literature , No. 35, Verlag F. & P. ​​Lehmann, 1894 ( books.google.de )
  5. ↑ Hermann Sinsheimer: Lived in Paradise . Verlag R. Pflaum, 1953, page 144f.
  6. ↑ Erika Bosl: Meßthaler, Emil. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 524 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Mirko Nottscheid: Karl Kraus, Frank Wedekind: Correspondence 1903 to 1917 . 2008, p. 391, books.google.de
  8. ^ Tilly Wedekind: Lulu. The role of my life . Rütten & Loening, Munich / Bern / Vienna 1969
  9. ↑ Heinz Greul : Boards that mean time. The cultural history of cabaret , Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag, Cologne 1967; Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-423-00743-5 and ISBN 3-423-00744-3 , page 252
  10. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , p. 1445
personal data
SURNAME Messthaler, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messthaler, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1927
Place of death Munich