Felix Baumbach

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Felix Baumbach (born March 6, 1876 in Duisburg as Bernhard Wenning ; † November 20, 1966 in Karlsruhe ) was a German actor and director .

Parentage and family

Baumbach was the son of a craftsman. He had three daughters from his marriage to Anna Koroline Blum.

education and profession

Baumbach was already a member of an amateur theater group as a student. There he fell on Friedrich Karl Peppler , an actor at the Royal Court Theater in Hanover . Thanks to his support he was able to take acting lessons in Hanover . First engagements as an actor at the State Theater in Görlitz and the city ​​theaters in Elberfeld , Würzburg and Magdeburg followed . In 1901 Baumbach became an actor at the court theater in Karlsruhe . A few smaller works by Baumbach are known from this period and were performed. However, acting remained the focus of his activity. He soon took on character roles . In addition, led Baumbach, who in 1918 for director and two years later the senior director had been appointed, also directed . Furthermore, from 1924 on, he appeared as director of the festival and open-air productions on the Hohentwiel , in Constance , Ettlingen and Karlsruhe. He played a leading role in founding the Kammerspiele in the Künstlerhaus in Karlsruhe and the Karlsruher Volksbühne. As a lecturer at the theater academy of the Badisches Staatstheater, Baumbach influenced actors such as Kurt Müller-Graf and Waldemar Leitgeb . Baumbach joined the NSDAP in 1933 and held his position until 1945. After the end of the war, he retired, but remained with the theater as an artistic adviser.

Awards

Fonts

  • Last celebration. One last act, 1902
  • New ways. A Drama from the Medical Profession, 1908
  • Persepolis. Opera in 2 acts (music: RE Zingel), 1909
  • Midsummer glow. Dramatic ballad in 3 acts (music: H. Schilling-Ziemssen), 1909

literature

  • Brümmer, Franz: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 1, Aar to Dennemark. 6th edition. Printing and publishing house Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1913, p. 146. Digitized
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon of the 20th Century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Vol. 2, 2nd edition Bauer-Ose - Björnsen. KG Saur Verlag, Bern 2001, Sp. 25. ISBN 3-908255-02-3 . Digitized
  • Günther Haass / Wilhelm Kappler / Bernhard Müller / Marie Salaba / Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (arrangement): Karlsruhe theater history. From the court theater to the state theater. Publishing Brown, Karlsruhe 1982, ISBN 3-7650-0452-9 , S. 102 ff. Digitalisat
  • Eva Krauter: The actor and director Felix Baumbach. In: Günther Philipp (Ed.): Rüppurrer Lebensbilder II. Rüppurrer Hefte Vol. 6. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2009, p. 16 ff. 978-3-8819-0540-4.
  • Verlag "Theaterkunst" Otto Glenk (Ed.): The Badisches Landestheater Karlsruhe. Almanac for the year 1929. Verlag "Theaterkunst" Otto Glenk, Munich 1929, p. 86. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Selina Küst: Felix Baumbach. In: Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe. City of Karlsruhe, 2012, accessed on May 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon of the 20th Century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . 2nd Edition. tape 2 , Bauer-Ose - Björnsen. KG Saur Verlag, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-908255-02-3 , Sp. 25 .
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenning, Bernhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1966
Place of death Karlsruhe