Gaston Demme
Gaston Demme ( September 6, 1865 in Berlin - after 1944 ) was a German theater actor .
Life
Demme, son of a senior teacher, entered the stage career in 1885 in one episode in the small role of "Kalchas" in Theodora at the Residenztheater in Berlin. His second engagement was Görlitz, then he came to Hanau, Gera (inaugural role "Gempe" in Großstadtluft ), Lübeck (in the Wilhelmtheater "Timpe" in Our Don Juans ), Elberfeld (in the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth "Hermann" in Haubenlerche ), Halle ( "Jetter" in Egmont ), Hamburg (Carl Schultze Theater "Felix" in Bocksprge ), Freiburg ("Mustapha" in son of the Khalifa ) and to the court theater in Kassel, where he was called "Valentin" ( spendthrift ), "Arnold Bäcker" debuted in Cornelius Voss and "Musketeer Schulze" in Pechschulze .
By appearing in these three different types of roles, he demonstrated his extraordinary useful strength and gave testimony to his general acting skills. Demme, a skilful salon actor, delivers character studies as naturally as possible in classical music, folk plays and farce, happily staying away from exaggerations, but on the other hand is an actor of overwhelming comedy. But with him the acting outweighs the buffoonery even in the drastic situations. A look at his repertoire gives proof of his great creative talent, as should be mentioned: “Wehrhahn”, “Wolf” in today's youth , “Reif-Reiflingen”, “Amandus” ( youth ), “Grignon” ( Frauenkamp ), “Bleichenwang "," Schumerich "," Spiegelberg "," Mittelbach "in Mr. Senator and" Hofmarschall Kalb "etc.
In 1901 Demme made a guest appearance at the Leipzig City Theater, where immediately after his first debut role as a slip in Midsummer Night's Dream he was recognized as a mature artist and excellent character actor and Demme (from 1902) engaged for this stage, where he worked until 1944.
Demme also worked as a librettist, for example for 's Poussierschlössl by Otto Findeisen .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 181, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Gaston Demme at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Rothe , Hildegard Heilemann : Die Kunst: Bibliography on the history of the fine arts, music, literature and theater . 1964, p. 294
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demme, Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1944 |