Gustav Czimeg

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Grave site of the Czimeg family in the Steinfeldfriedhof in Graz

Gustav Czimeg (born December 20, 1877 , † August 21, 1939 in Graz ) was a German or Austrian actor in the stage and silent films.

Live and act

Czimeg had played theater since around the turn of the century and had been successful for many years under Alfred Reucker at the Zurich City Theater until the First World War . The most important phase in Czimeg's artistic work took place immediately before the beginning of the Weimar Republic . Under the directorship of Max Reinhardt , who brought him to the Deutsches Theater in September 1918 , he was seen in an abundance of important and very different theater roles. Gustav Czimeg was given such powerful roles as Agamemnon in Oresty , the Merchant of Venice in the Shakespeare play of the same name (at the side of the young mime Willy Fritsch ) and the Idnibaal in Jaakob's dream .

At the same time, like so many other Reinhardt actors of those years, Czimeg often appeared in front of the camera. His most important role was the Duke of Aiguillon in Ernst Lubitsch's splendid Madame Dubarry film in 1919 . Otherwise it covered the entire range of small to medium-sized roles. Sometimes Czimeg was a blackmailer (in The Carnival of the Dead ), sometimes a noble gentleman (in The Golden Crown ), then again a minister (in Little Princess ), a factory owner (in errors ) and once even a Cheruscan prince (in the monumental painting Die Hermannschlacht ). Gustav Czimeg moved to Graz in the 1920s and settled there. Until his death, the local theater / playhouse was to become his artistic home.

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Czimeg: Richard Beer-Hofmann. The correspondence with Paula 1896–1938

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personal data
SURNAME Czimeg, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German or Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1877
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1939
Place of death Graz