Gustav Jacoby

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Gustav Jacoby (born December 24, 1895 in Wiesbaden , † May 25, 1939 in Berlin (?)) Was a German humorist and lecturer.

Live and act

He was a son of the pleasure play poet Wilhelm Jacoby , whose farce “ Pension Schöller ” is still played today. Originally he was supposed to start an apprenticeship as a businessman at a sparkling wine cellar, but he was drawn to the stage. He got a traineeship at the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus. This was followed by engagements in Bad Homburg, in the seaside resort of Binz and in Putbus on the island of Rügen. In 1917 he was drafted and appeared in front theaters.

A failed classic performance after the end of the First World War, during which he was devastatingly criticized, Jacoby owed the change to the humorous field. From then on he entertained his audience at lecture evenings with his own conférences and was so successful that he soon rose to become one of the greats of cabaret. He made his debut in 1924 on Berlin radio. But the "Lustige Evenings" at WERAG , the forerunner of West German Broadcasting, made him really well known , for which he worked as an emcee. But he also appears on other German broadcasters and stages, such as B. at the Deutsches Theater in Munich or in the Berlin “Scala” .

The criticism of the contemporary press distinguished him with ratings such as “strong artistic personality”, “witty, humorous chat” and “great lecturer”, even called him a “real causeur ” and “true bohemian ”. His “rich range of modulation” and “excellent language technique” were highlighted.

His specialties were witty chats and dialect walks through the landscapes of the empire, whose dialects he mastered: "One of the best-known numbers that Jacoby performed was the 'representation of compatriot types in expression and gesture'". Performing with a monocle and cigar, his inevitable hallmarks, he was one of the most popular humorists in Germany in the 1930s. At the end of 1938 a serious illness forced him to give up his job. He died at the age of 44.

For Lindström's Odeon label, he recorded a series of gramophone records in the second half of the 1920s, which have received his voice for posterity.

Sound documents (examples)

  • Odeon O-2049 a (mx. Be 5010) Humor vom Rhein, 1st part
  • Odeon O-2049 b (mx. Be 5011) dto., 2nd part [autumn 1926]


  • Odeon O-2167 a (mx. Be 5686) That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night . Song (H.Krome - W.Weiß)
  • Odeon O-2167 b (mx. Be 5687) Berlin, Berlin (H. Hauptmann - G. Hochstötter)
  • “Gustav Jacoby lecturer. With instrumental trio. "


  • Odeon O-2564 a (mx. Be 5682) Saxon history lesson (G.Jacoby)
  • Odeon O-2564 b (mx. Be 5683) The interrogation (G. Jacoby) [Spring 1927]


  • Odeon O-11 120 a (mx. Be 8542) The magic of Düsseldorf on the Rhine (K.Blume - G.Jacoby)
  • Odeon O-11 120 b (mx. Be 8543) Yes we from the Rhine! (K.Blume - G.Jacoby)


  • Odeon O-11 122 a (mx. Be 8547) Mir ächte Määnzer, 1st part
  • Odeon O-11 122 b (mx. Be 8548) dto., 2nd part [autumn 1929]

Fonts

  • Have a good laugh! Self-published, 1930.
  • Funny Jacoby children. Humorous lectures with text drawings by Richard Bloos. Self-published, [1931]. DNB 574067191

literature

  • Hans Dollinger: Munich in the 20th century: a chronicle of the city from 1900 to 2000. Buchendorfer Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-934036-42-2 .
  • Josef Donderer: '- and in the evening in the Scala': photographs. (= Series of photo collections. Volume 2). Verlag Nicolai, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87584-384-3 .
  • Artists on the radio, a pocket album for the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk", dedicated to our readers. Rothgießer & Diesing, Berlin 1932.
  • Artists on the radio, a pocket album dedicated to our readers, »Der deutsche Rundfunk«, »Funkpost« - Part 4, performers and entertainment orchestra. Rothgießer & Diesing, Berlin 1936.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1992, OCLC 1072532296 .
  • Joachim-Felix Leonhard (Ed.): Program history of radio in the Weimar Republic. (= dtv pocket books scientific series. Volume 4702). Volume 2, DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-423-04702-X , p. 974 u. 1014.
  • Jürgen Müller: Willkommen - Bienvenue - Welcome ...: Political Review - Cabaret - Varieté in Cologne 1928–1938. (= Writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Volume 14). Emons Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89705-549-0 .
  • Wolfgang Schneidereit: Discography of the vocal interpreters of the light muse from 1925 to 1945 in German-speaking countries: A discography with biographical information in three volumes. Volume 2: Kirsten Heiberg to Ethel Reschke. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7528-2841-2 , p. 639.

Web links

  • Postcard with a portrait of Jacoby, dated 1935.
  • Title page to "Laugh yourselves healthy!" with picture of Jacoby (with monocle ) at booklooker.de (retrieved 07.03.2020)
  • Album sheet (postcard format with open newspaper picture), personally signed with place, date Leipzig, April 27th (19) 33. IN ADDITION: Small newspaper article about his appearances. Text: “There is another person who makes you happy: Gustav Jacoby. He has long been known from western radio waves, which makes personal encounters all the more pleasant. Jacoby brings his jokes in an original way. He goes on a foray to Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony, Berlin, Frankfurt and the Rhine, and tells his amusing experiences in the respective dialect. " fig. at auktionen.de , also at ZVAB.com (retrieved 07/03/2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so with Berthold Leimbach: Tondokumente der Kleinkunst and their interpreters 1898–1945. Göttingen, self-published in 1992; according to Donderer p. 74 he was the brother of Ufa film director Georg Jacoby , later husband of Marika Rökk .
  2. ↑ cf. Leonhard, program history p. 1014: "The Rhenish humorist Gustav Jacoby appeared several times in Berlin in the first year of broadcasting, twice each in Frankfurt ..."
  3. ↑ cf. Pocket album “Künstler am Rundfunk” p. 247, which says about his photograph: “Gustav Jacoby, one of the German master humorists, takes over the conference in the“ Lustige Evenings ”of Westdeutscher Rundfunk.” And in the 4th volume of “Künstler im Rundfunk "It says on p. 32:" He appears innumerable times on German stations in larger events and with his own lecture programs. "At radiomusaeum.org
  4. ↑ H.Dollinger p. 150
  5. ↑ In the program booklet of “Scala” from December 1937, Jacobi's appearance “Der lachende Weltenspiegel” was even announced on p. 8 as a “political conference”, cf. Donderer et al., P. 74
  6. ↑ cit. after Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Göttingen, self-published in 1992
  7. ↑ cf. Album sheet m. sign. Newspaper clipping, dated Leipzig, April 27, 1933, small. Article: "He goes on a foray to Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony, to Berlin, Frankfurt and the Rhine, and tells his amusing experiences in the respective dialect."
  8. ↑ cf. Müller p. 327
  9. ↑ cf. Drawing by eagle at radiomusaeum.org
  10. ↑ Labels shown at picclick.de (retrieved July 3, 2020)
  11. ↑ label shown. at -plattenshop.net (retrieved July 3, 2020)
  12. ↑ sokrates-digital.de
  13. ↑ cover page shown. at radiomusaeum.org
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speaker and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1939
Place of death unsure: Berlin