Guido Thielscher
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Guido Thielscher (born September 10, 1859 in Königshütte , † June 29, 1941 in Bad Salzbrunn in Silesia ) was a German humorist , couplet - singer , comedian , cabaret artist and actor on stage and film.
Life
The son of a farmer grew up in Görlitz and came to Berlin immediately after school , where he was to work most of his life. He received his artistic training from the well-known actor Heinrich Oberländer , and he also took singing lessons from Ferdinand Gumbert . His first permanent engagement took him to the Belle Alliance Theater in 1877 . This was followed by engagements at the Central Theater and the Thalia Theater . In the latter place he celebrated great success with the comedy classic Charley's Aunt . With this piece, which he had played hundreds of times, he also went on tour through the German Empire. His appointment to the Deutsches Theater in 1896 earned him smaller roles in classic plays such as Hamlet (as a gravedigger) and Faust (as a witch). At that time he had already established himself as a versatile and sought-after artist.
However, Thielscher soon recognized its comical effect and in the future devoted himself primarily to farce and comedy. He was able to live out his talent for humorous performances, often with singing, especially at the Thalia Theater and in the comedy theater of the German capital. However, he celebrated the greatest successes, including a. under the direction of Rudolf Nelson , at the Metropol-Theater , where over the decades he has appeared alongside such important Diseusen as Fritzi Massary (with Das muss man seh'n ) and Claire Waldoff (with What we think about ). Metropol director Richard Schulz had once paid the director of the German theater, Otto Brahm , the considerable amount of 10,000 Reichsmarks to win Thielscher for his newly founded venue.
He also paid attention to a wide range when singing. As a soloist, Thielscher performed both marching songs such as Bis Früh um five from the Lincke operetta of the same name and couplets from the pen of Otto Reutter ( nineteen hundred and fourteen ). With his original lectures and witty rhymes, he can be seen as a very early forerunner of the classic stand-up comedian .
Similar to his comedian colleagues Arnold Rieck , Leo Peukert and Guido Herzfeld , who were hardly less popular at the beginning of the 20th century , attempts were made to use Thielscher's enormous popularity for film , especially during the First World War . His fellow actor and director Paul Otto brought him in front of the camera in 1915/1916 for some stories tailored to Thielscher, but Thielscher remained primarily connected to the stage in the following years.
At the beginning of the 1920s, the stage veteran made it possible for the 20-year-old up-and-coming artist Marlene Dietrich to make one of her first appearances as a showgirl as part of his own acting troupe. On March 27, 1928, a festival program was staged in Thielscher's honor in the Lustspielhaus Berlin to celebrate (slightly belatedly) his 50th anniversary on the stage in Berlin. Thielscher remained a highly agile thoroughbred comedian into old age: " With astonishing elasticity, he is even in old age, since other people devote themselves to calmness and feed on memories, rolled over the stage boards, jumped, jumped and balled " it said in 1941 in an obituary. It was not until his 75th birthday that the artist said goodbye to the stage and withdrew into private life. In 1938 he published his memoirs under the title Memories of an Old Comedian .
Thielscher died of a heart attack while on vacation in Bad Salzbrunn, Silesia. On the occasion of his death, his popularity was once again reminded: " With his indestructible humor and his Berlin dialect, he became the most popular comedian in the Reich capital " The city of Berlin honored him with an honorary grave at the Wilmersdorf cemetery .
Films (selection)
- 1915: Guido in paradise
- 1915: Guido the First or The Deceived Sausage Manufacturer
- 1916: Florian's aunt
- 1916: Theophrastus Paracelsus
- 1920: Figaro's wedding
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1034 .
- German stage yearbook. Vol. 53, 1942 ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 130.
Web links
- Guido Thielscher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
annotation
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. 1903, p. 1034.
- ↑ a b German Stage Yearbook. Vol. 53, 1942, p. 130.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thielscher, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigshütte |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1941 |
| Place of death | Bad Salzbrunn |