Karl Peppler (actor)

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Karl Peppler (also: Carl Peppler and Carl Friedrich Peppler as well as Friedrich Karl Peppler and Friedrich Carl Peppler * March 7, 1857 in Gießen ; † 1918 or 1919 in Munich ) was a German actor and director at the Munich theater and acting teacher.

Life

In his youth, Karl Peppler had been chosen for an officer career by his family and received his education for this in the royal Prussian cadet corps . After his military training, he joined the Imperial German Army as an artillery officer , in which he served for five years. Then in 1878 he took dramatic lessons with Emil Werner in Darmstadt , before he tried his hand at the Darmstädter Hoftheater there in 1879 , where he - although still unfinished - was popular and engaged.

As a result he appeared on the stage in Posen from 1880 to 1881 and in the theater in Mainz from 1881 to 1883 , where he perfected his acting training. He then accepted an application to found the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in order to develop his acting skills in famous roles such as Mercutio in the tragedy Romeo and Juliet and Moritz Spiegelberg in Schiller's drama Die Räuber .

From 1885 to 1886 Peppler was engaged at the court theater of the royal family in Saint Petersburg . Also in 1886 he followed a call as a character actor and bon vivant at the German State Theater in Prague . Not least because of his "extremely engaging stage appearance", he quickly won the audience's favor, which soon put him in the first ranks of the best performers in the Prague ensemble. Until 1895 he also worked in Prague in a dual capacity as a theater director .

As the successor to Friedrich Holthaus , Peppler made his debut in Hanover in 1895 , where he worked until 1907, among other things, as director of the Hanoverian Drama and Opera at the Royal Theater . The owner of the Zentenarmedaille lived in Sedanstrasse 25A around 1904. Leonie Peppler , Peppler's wife, with whom he had their son Hans Peppler , also lived at number 25 . The entire family had private contact with Josef Kainz . As early as 1907, Peppler, who worked temporarily under the head director Louis Ellmenreich , who had also been awarded the Lippe Order for Art and Science and the commemorative sign of the silver wedding of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria , had his residence on Güntherstrasse 3.

After Hanover, Peppler moved to Munich around 1907, where he stayed permanently and also worked as the director of the theater there. Peppler's classical repertoire included his appearances as Mephisto, Othello, Richard III, Alba and Shylock; however, he was not tied to any subject. For example, the newspaper Kain - Zeitschrift für Menschlichkeit, published by Erich Mühsam , certified Carl Friedrich Peppler with "a lot of warmth and believable life" for his portrayal of the Jewish father Levin in the play " Behind Walls " by the Dane Henri Nathansen .

In the Torrgelstube in Munich , Peppler was a frequent table companion of Erich Mühsam, as a result of which he loved his job more than anything and also regularly demonstrated it publicly as a gentleman of the old school, for example when the almost solemn offer of his seat to women in the Munich tram.

Peppler was able to celebrate its 40th stage anniversary in Munich last. But he had given a guest appearance on the Western Front in the First World War to entertain drafted soldiers . He had developed a kidney disease, which soon afterwards led to the death of the deceased at the age of 61.

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Archival material

Archives by and about Friedrich Karl Peppler can be found, for example

  • as a handwritten letter from Friedrich Karl Peppler dated October 2, 1911 to the writer Josef Ruederer , Ruederer's estate in the Monacensia literary archive of the Munich City Library , archive signature JR B 366 (acquisition number 2715/79 )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Martersteig : The German Theater in the Nineteenth Century. A cultural history presentation , Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904, p. 666; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c New Theater Almanac. Theater-historical year and address book , Volume 15, 1904, pp. 372, 650; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Eduard Noack: Court theater memories. Selection of outstanding theater performances and concerts from around 13,000 total performances of the Royal Theater of Hanover for the 50th anniversary published and provided with numerous historical notes , Hanover: Schaper, 1902, p. 74; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i German Stage Yearbook. Theater history year and address book , publisher: Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members, Berlin: Print and commission publisher FA Günther & Sohn, 1919, p. 125; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ a b 1906. As a student in Berlin and Munich. It is strange that I combine the unsightly traits of so many poets in myself , in this: Nele Holdack, Marje Schuetze-Coburn, Michaela Ullmann (ed.), Anne Hartmann, Klaus-Peter Möller (collabor.): Lion Feuchtwanger. The most intense life possible. Die Tagebücher , 1st edition, Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03726-0 , pp. 6, 27, especially p. 28; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b René Gilbert: Paul Hermann Müller on the page of the Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe in the version of 2015, last accessed on September 18, 2019
  7. ^ A b c Ludwig Eisenberg: Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Theaters in the XIX. Century , Leipzig: Paul List Publishing House, 1903, p. 758, digitized via archive.org
  8. ↑ Erich Kober: Josef Kainz. Mensch unter Masken , Vienna: Neff, 1948, p. 164 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ^ New theater almanac for the year ... , 1907, p. 439; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Erich Mühsam (Ed.): Kain. Zeitschrift für Menschlichkeit , issue 8 of November 1912, Munich: Kain-Verlag, 11th year (1912), p. 123; Digitized via Google books
  11. ↑ Erich Mühsam. Against forgetting. Selected works and writings , [Munich]: eClassica, Munich: Ciando, 1/2013, digitized via Google books
  12. ↑ a b Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon . Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook , Volume 2, Klagenfurt; Vienna: Verlag Ferdinand Kleinmayr, 1960, p. 1153, 1559; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ^ Wilhelm Kosch , Ingrid Bigler-Marschall : Wisheu-Martens, Albert , in: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon . Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch , Volume 6, 2008, Munich; Zurich: KG Saur Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-908255-46-8 , p. 3460; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ↑ Information from the Berlin State Library on the Kalliope network in the version dated June 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Peppler, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peppler, Carl; Peppler, Friedrich Karl (full name); Peppler, Friedrich Carl; Peppler, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH 1918 or 1919
Place of death Munich