Fritz Holl

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Fritz Holl (born October 14, 1883 in Worms , † April 3, 1942 in Vienna ) was a German actor , director and artistic director .

Life

Fritz Holl was born as the son of the engineer Franz Holl and his wife Auguste (née Fischer). Holl received his artistic training shortly after the turn of the century from the court actor Otto König in Munich . In conclusion, he made his debut at the Volkstheater in the Bavarian capital . Due to his angular, sharp-cut face at a young age, Holl was entrusted with youthful character roles at an early age. Not yet 23 years old, he already had Franz Moor (in Schiller's Die Räuber ), Oswald (in Ibsen's Ghosts ), Wurm (in Schiller's Cabal and Love ), the Fool (in Shakespeare's King Lear ), Leonhard (in Hebbel's Maria Magdalena ) and Narcissus (in Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund ).

Before the First World War , Louise Dumont brought him to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , which she ran, where he worked as an actor and director. During the war, Holl served as an officer, after which he was brought to the Württemberg State Theater as senior director in the early 1920s .

Fritz Holl replaced Friedrich Kayßler as director of the Volksbühne Berlin in 1923 . As director, he opened the Volksbühne Berlin to time-critical, modern authors and promoted the socially critical director Erwin Piscator . When Holl was released from management in 1928, it was stated in the club's newspaper of the Volksbühne Berlin that there had been "differences of opinion about the success" of Holl's productions, but the Volksbühneverein Holl also owed some directing work of significant value, including productions by the Kaufmann von Venice , the dream game and the Peer Gynt , which had a long lasting effect on memories.

From 1928 to 1930 Holl went on guest tours to Munich and New York . In October 1928 he staged the first Faust performance in the USA at the Guild Theater there . In May 1929, Corrinth's school tragedy, Trojans, was staged .

Back in Germany, Holl worked between 1930 and 1933 as the artistic director of the Cologne theater . From 1934 to 1936 he was the head of the career advice center in the Reich Theater Chamber . In 1938, when Holl was in Berlin to direct the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm , he made two unproductive detours to film. After an assistant director on Carl Boese's love story Schwarzfahrt ins Glück , the producing company Terra made it possible for him to direct the Heinz Rühmann comedy Nanu, you don't know Korff that same year ? At this time Fritz Holl also worked for a short time as a lecturer at the Reichsfilmkammer .

In 1939 Holl went to Vienna to take over the direction of the Deutsches Volkstheater under the artistic director Walter Bruno Iltz . His last Viennese productions were for folk plays such as Ludwig Anzengruber's The Perjury Farmer , Alexander Engels and August Neidhart's Schwank Das Protektionskind , Josef Wimmer's Posse Die Gigerln von Wien and Hanns Menzel's comedy Aphrodite is my wife .

Holl had a daughter with actress Margit Hellberg, actress Ruth Hellberg . He was married twice, his second marriage to the Munich actress Käthe Bierkowski (1892-1946). Holl's younger brother Karl Holl was a musicologist and ministerial director in the Hessian Ministry of Culture .

Filmography

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 54.
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 54th year 1943. P. 74.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . First volume, p. 830 f., Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 700.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Hagemann (ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 54
  2. ↑ Anonymous ( Siegfried Nestriepke ): Resignation of Fritz Holl, in: Blätter der Volksbühne Berlin , year 1927/28, issue 3, January / February 1928, p. 1 f., Here p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1942
Place of death Vienna