Ferdinand Bonn

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Ferdinand Bonn

Ferdinand Franz Josef Bonn (* 20th December 1861 in Donauwörth , † 24. September 1933 in Berlin ) was a German actor , playwright and theater director .

Live and act

Scenes from the play Sherlock Holmes by Ferdinand Bonn, with the author in the leading role. Performance by the Berlin Theater, 1906. Photo: R. Siegert.

Ferdinand Bonn, son of parents Franz and Bertha Bonn, born. Promoli, wrote his own plays in which he himself participated while he was still at school. In 1880 he graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and began studying law at the University of Munich . He turned first to painting and then to acting.

Bonn took acting lessons from Ernst Possart and made his debut at the Nuremberg City Theater in 1885 as a dervish in Nathan the Wise . In the same year he played at the Deutsches Theater in Moscow and stayed there for a season. He later worked in Munich and at the Burgtheater in Vienna , where he became known as Hamlet , Franz Moor in Die Räuber and Raskolnikow in Schuld und Atonement .

In 1905 he founded Ferdinand Bonn's Berlin theater in Berlin . Numerous stage pieces written by Bonn were premiered here. "Bonn committed itself to an aesthetic style that deliberately used excessive equipment and all kinds of stage effects". His management of the Berlin theater lasted only two years and, according to the theater historian Peter W. Marx , was “an artistic and economic failure”. Nevertheless, Bonn “made itself and its theater the talk of the town”, among other things through the use of live animals on the stage. He adapted stories by Arthur Conan Doyle about the master detective Sherlock Holmes with himself as Holmes, namely in 1906 Sherlock Holmes , and in 1907 The Hound of Baskerville and The Dancing Men . His patriotic stage drama Young Fritz was banned by Kaiser Wilhelm II , who had attended one of the Sherlock Holmes performances, to which Bonn reacted violently. In 1911, Bonn staged Shakespeare's drama Richard III in the Busch Circus . where he himself played the leading role. The spectacular performance, largely rejected by the critics, was particularly characterized by the use of numerous live horses, which Bonn earned the nickname “ Pferdinand” .

Before the First World War he had to file for bankruptcy and then went on a theater tour again. In film he started in several Danish productions and became known in 1913 through Ludwig II of Bavaria , in which he not only took over the title role, but also the production. He presented this film to the King of Bavaria in a private screening . He found high recognition.

In the film Robert and Bertram, the funny vagabonds from 1915, Ernst Lubitsch played next to him . In 1920 he portrayed the fairy tale king Ludwig II again in Das Schweigen am Starnberger See .

Bonn played repeatedly under the direction of Richard Oswald . He preferred to act as detectives and embodied Kaiser Wilhelm II in Kaiser Wilhelm's Glück und Ende in 1919 . Between 1920 and 1924 he was often seen in Austrian films. Bonn, in the beginning always in leading roles in film, has mostly only been given minor tasks in recent years.

He also used the pseudonyms Florian Endli and Franz Baier . Bonn was married to a sister of the opera singer Emma Moerdes in his first marriage .

Filmography

Works by Ferdinand Bonn

  • Work edition in 4 volumes: Collected works . Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1911
  • Collected Works Volume 1: Soldier Stories and Poems
  • Collected Works Volume 2:
    • Hélène Moerdès (Helene Bonn) (autobiographical part) (p. 4, PDF p. 18)
    • Anna Helene Hagemann (autobiographical part) (p. 13, PDF p. 35)
    • Anna Helene, drama in 4 acts (p. 41, PDF p. 73)
    • Kiwito, comedy in 4 acts (p. 139, PDF p. 181)
    • Friedrich II of Prussia: a patriotic play in 3 parts
      • 1. The young Fritz, a play in 4 acts (p. 235, PDF p. 293)
      • 2. Frederick the Great, drama (p. 305, PDF p. 369)
      • 3. Old Fritz (missing = never written)
    • The winner, comedy in 3 acts (p. 391, PDF p. 463)

literature

  • Bonn Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 102.
  • Brigitte Müller: Ferdinand Bonn - womanizer, bon vivant and do-gooder. Women, nobility and people in the life and work of Ferdinand Bonn. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-8288-8743-0 (also: Würzburg, University, dissertation, 2003).

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Bonn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertha Promoli died of a typhus epidemic in Munich around 1872. Source: Ferdinand Bonn: Collected Works. Volume 1. Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1911, p. 3, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. 1879/1880, ZDB -ID 12448436 .
  3. ↑ a b c Peter W. Marx: A theatrical age. Bourgeois self-portrayals around 1900. A. Francke, Tübingen and Basel 2008, p. 336.
  4. ↑ Peter W. Marx: A theatrical age. Bourgeois self-portrayals around 1900. A. Francke, Tübingen and Basel 2008, p. 338.
  5. ↑ Peter W. Marx: A theatrical age. Bourgeois self-portrayals around 1900. A. Francke, Tübingen and Basel 2008, p. 344.
  6. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1913-1914. Deutsche Kinemathek e. V., Berlin 1969, p. 261.
  7. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Ferdinand Bonn . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 508 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Bonn, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonn, Ferdinand Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, playwright and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Donauwörth
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1933
Place of death Berlin