Friedrich Kühns

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Friedrich Kühns , also Fritz Kühns , (born August 20, 1862 in Prague , † March 13, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German actor.

Life

The son of the actor Carl Paul Volkmar Kühns (1832-1905) began his professional career in 1882 at the Stadt-Theater in Leitmeritz (north of Prague on the Elbe) in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia as a youthful hero and lover. This role subject seemed to be suitable for his personality, because it initially accompanied him through further engagements until he was 30 years old. Friedrich Kühns was only referred to as an "actor" when he was employed in the Residenz Theater in Hanover. The last time he was mentioned in the personnel list of the German Theater in Breslau, he was listed as "Deputy Director and Senior Director". How long he worked there is unknown. At the end of his life he evidently moved to Berlin, where he found his final resting place in 1925 in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

His wife Malwine, b. Weiss, (born February 1, 1874 in Vienna ) was Jewish. She committed suicide on October 16, 1941 in Berlin and was buried by her sister Marie Weiss in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee. Marie Weiss herself was deported from Berlin to Warsaw on April 2, 1942, to the ghetto there.

Engagements

literature

  • Ernst Gettke (Ed.): Almanach of the German Stage Members ' Cooperative , Leipzig. Volume 11 (1883) - 17 (1889).
  • New Theater Almanach , Ed .: Cooperative of German Stage Members, Berlin. Volume 1 (1890) - 10 (1899).
  • Th. Dez (Ed.): Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , Berlin. Volume 56 (1892) - 57 (1893).
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon , Klagenfurt and Vienna. 2nd volume 1960, page 1124.
  • Paul S. Ulrich: Theater, dance and music in the German stage yearbook , volume 1. Verlag Arno Spitz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See entry for Marie Weiss in the memorial book: Victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . and entry for Maline Weiss in the memorial book: Victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Personnel directory of all members, employees and guests employed in the Stadttheater zu Düsseldorf . Season 1889/90 (acting)
personal data
SURNAME Kühns, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühns, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1925
Place of death Berlin