Franz Ludwig (actor)
Franz Ludwig (born April 8, 1876 in Berlin , † November 16, 1927 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German actor.
Life
Ludwig received his artistic training from Cord Hachmann and his father, the well-known stage actor Maximilian Ludwig (1847-1906). He made his debut in 1895 as a member of the ensemble of the Royal Theater in Berlin . Max Grube became Ludwig's great sponsor at a young age. In 1896 Ludwig went to Weimar , the following year to Halle , in 1898 to Basel and in 1900 to Königsberg , where he appeared at the Stadttheater. Shortly before that, Ludwig made the transition to heroism in Lübeck , and in the East Prussian metropolis he made his debut as Egmont in the Goethe play of the same name .
In the next 25 years obligations to Frankfurt am Main (Stadttheater), Mannheim (Hoftheater) and Vienna ( Raimundtheater ) followed. During his time as a visiting and freelance artist, he came into contact with film for the first time in Berlin in 1913. After the First World War , at the beginning of the 1920s, Ludwig worked as artistic director and senior stage manager at the city theater in Hagen . He then went back to Berlin and ended his career in 1927 as director of the Nordmark-Landestheater in Schleswig .
Theater roles
Even in his early years, Franz Ludwig played the entire range of youthful heroic roles. He gave Hamlet , Karl Moor , Faust , Fiesko, Coriolanus, Orestes, Uriel Acosta, the Count of Essex, Wilhelm Tell , Max Piccolomini in Schiller's Wallenstein , the Templar in Nathan the Wise , and Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts , the Rosmer in Rosmersholm (also Ibsen), the Leander in Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, the Röcknitz in Glück im Winkel, the Guido Colonna in Monna Vanna and the Prince of Homburg in the Kleist drama of the same name .
Film rolls
Ludwig probably only made three films. These films were all biographies of Otto von Bismarck , and in all three films he played the title role of the founder of the empire.
Filmography
- 1913: Bismarck
- 1925: Bismarck, 1st part
- 1926: Bismarck 1862-1898
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 627, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Heinrich Hagemann: Technical lexicon of the German stage members. Vol. 1, 1906, ZDB -ID 973283-4 , p. 32.
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 2: Hurka - Pallenberg. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt et al. 1960, p. 1299.
Web links
- Franz Ludwig in the Internet Movie Database (English) - there mixed with the sound film actor Franz Ludwig-Mörth
- Franz Ludwig at filmportal.de
Remarks
- ↑ Hagemann names the unreliable year 1878, the DNB 1875, Eisenberg 1876
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ludwig, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, theater director and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1927 |
| Place of death | Bad Neuenahr |