Friedrich Kayssler

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Friedrich Kayssler (1898)

Friedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler , also Friedrich Kayßler (born April 7, 1874 in Neurode , Lower Silesia, † April 24, 1945 in Kleinmachnow near Berlin ) was a German actor , writer and composer .

Life

Friedrich Kayssler visited in Wroclaw the Mary Magdalene School , studied philosophy in Breslau and Munich and began his stage career in Berlin with Otto Brahm. From there he went to Görlitz as the first lover , where he met and married his first wife Luise, a member of the local theater, was in Halle for a short time and then came back to Berlin all the time.

At the “Magdalenäum” in Breslau in the summer of 1889, Kayssler met Christian Morgenstern , with whom he had a lifelong friendship, as well as with Fritz Beblo , with whom he graduated from high school in 1893 . Morgenstern became the godfather of his son Christian.

He made friends with Max Reinhardt under Otto Brahm , with whom he organized the Schall und Rauch evenings. When Reinhardt took over the Deutsches Theater in 1905 as the successor to Otto Brahms, Kayssler became a member of this stage, to which Helene Fehdmer , his second wife, also belonged from 1905 ; he had met her in 1904 as Lola Montez in Josef Ruederer's Dawn in the New Theater. In 1913 he earned 3,000 marks per month as an actor at Literaria Film (16,284 euros per month).

From 1918 to 1923 Kayssler was director of the Volksbühne Berlin . When Kayssler resigned prematurely from management in 1923, the Volksbühne Berlin news paper said that there had been "certain disputes" about a "contract that Director Kayßler had concluded for a one-month guest performance at the theater in Königgrätzer Strasse without the consent of the association's board" . Kayssler did not want to resign from this guest performance “for material reasons”. Kayssler toured a lot with Helene Fehdmer at home and abroad and took on numerous film roles.

In addition, he was also active as a writer. He wrote mainly impressionistic fairy tale dramas and comedies , but also went public with poems, essays and aphorisms. In 1938 he played a role in the Struensee drama The Fall of the Minister of the Nazi playwright Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, staged by Lothar Müthel . After the death of Helene Fehdmer-Kayssler (1939) he dedicated the book Helene Fehdmer zum Gedächtnis (1942 published by Rütten & Loening) to her, in which he attempted to give an outline of the roles that they mostly played together using dialogues. the inner picture of their representations and shapes ”. 57 panels are enclosed with the book, including photos of her sculptural works.

Friedrich Kayssler was one of only four theater actors who were listed as "irreplaceable artists" on the God-gifted list .

On March 10, 1944, his son Christian Kayssler , who was also a successful actor, died at the age of 46 in an Allied bombing raid. Friedrich Kayssler was killed by Soviet soldiers in front of his house in Kleinmachnow at the end of the war .

Filmography

Silent films

Sound films

Works

Texts
  • Simplicius. Tragic fairy tale in five acts. Bergemann & Haase, Berlin 1904.
  • Legends from Mjnhejm. Reiss, Berlin 1909.
  • Actor Notes. 2 volumes. Reiss, Berlin 1910–1914.
  • Jan the Wonderful. A rough comedy in 5 pictures. Reiss, Berlin 1916.
  • Between the valley and the mountain of the wave. New poems. Reiss, Berlin 1917.
  • Reflections. Aphorisms . Reiss, Berlin 1921.
  • Hours in Years New Poems. Reiss, Berlin 1924.
Compositions
  • Twelve Forstad junction. Gallows songs by Christian Morgenstern . Composed for the lute by Friedrich Kayssler .: Himmel und Erde ; The nasobēm ; The leu ; The night rogue and the seven-pig ; The Hemmed ; The rocking chair on the deserted terrace ; The plate-like ; Klabautermann ; Parable ; The lunchtime newspaper ; Korf makes up some kind of joke ; Maid's dream

literature

Honorary grave for Friedrich Kayssler and Helene Fehdmer at the Waldfriedhof Kleinmachnow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anonymous ( Siegfried Nestriepke ): News in the new season, in: Nachrichtenblatt der Volksbühne EV , year 1922/23, issue 5, May 1, 1923, p. 1 f., Here p. 1
  2. ^ Berlin theater. NZZ, February 21, 1938, evening edition, no.320
  3. ↑ Proof at WorldCat (accessed November 4, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Kayssler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kayssler, Friedrich Martin Adalbert (full name); Kayßler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor as well as writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Neurode
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1945
Place of death Kleinmachnow near Berlin