Gustav Kadelburg

Gustav Kadelburg (1904)

Gustav Kadelburg (far right) playing Skat with Adolph L'Arronge (German Theater Berlin), Paul Lindau (Hoftheater Meiningen) and August Förster (Hofburgtheater Vienna). Drawing by CW Allers , 1887

Franz von Schönthan (left) and Gustav Kadelburg, 1889

Gustav Kadelburg , also Gustaf Kadelburg , (born July 26, 1851 in Pest , † September 11, 1925 in Berlin ) was an Austrian theater actor, playwright and librettist.

Life

Gustav Kadelburg was born in Pest and, like his younger brother Heinrich Kadelburg , turned to the stage against his father's wishes . In Vienna , Alexander Strakosch became his acting teacher. Kadelburg made his debut in Halle in 1868 , where he began in a modest position. His first major appearance on a theater stage was in Leipzig in 1869 . Two years later he appeared in the Wallner Theater in Berlin. From 1884 to 1894 he worked at the Deutsches Theater , where the theater director and playwright Adolph L'Arronge gave him valuable advice on creating comedies. In the world premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann's social drama Before Sunrise on October 20, 1889 by the Free Stage in the Lessing Theater , he took on the role of engineer Hoffmann.

Although very successful as an actor, he ended his acting career in 1894 and only wrote comedies and librettos, for example for the operetta Alt-Wien based on music by Joseph Lanner . Many of his comedies were created in collaboration with Oscar Blumenthal or Franz von Schönthan as co-authors. The comedy Im White Rößl (1896) , which was set to music much later by Ralph Benatzky , became best known . His play Familie Schimek was filmed in 1926 by Alfred Halm and in 1957 by Georg Jacoby under the same title .

tomb

Kadelburg's grave is located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Heinz Rieder:  Kadelburg, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 721 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Kadelburg Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 164 f. (Direct links on p. 164 , p. 165 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Kadelburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Gustav Kadelburg at Zeno.org .
• Gustaf Kadelburg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gustav Kadelburg at filmportal.de
• Gustav Kadelburg at The German Early Cinema Database