Gustav Rickelt

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Gustav Rickelt (left) in conversation with Josef Jarno (right), 1899

Gustav Rickelt (born June 21, 1862 in Dortmund , † June 26, 1946 in Wessobrunn , Upper Bavaria ) was a German actor , director and from 1914 to 1927 president of the German Theater Members' Cooperative .

Life

Rickelt, the son of a chief forester, trained as a businessman at the request of his parents at the beginning of the 1880s, but broke off his apprenticeship after six months and went to the theater. In doing so, he left his parents. He began his artistic career in Hanau in 1882 , then worked on stages in Heidelberg , Halberstadt , Gießen , Posen , Budapest , Berlin and, from 1889, Munich . Rickelt moved from the latter stage to the USA in 1891 in order to fulfill an obligation of the New York Thalia Theater. He was accompanied by his wife Julie with their child Lucia from their first marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in 1900. In America he also took part in tours, from 1893 to 1895 Rickelt worked as a director and actor in Cincinnati . Back in Germany (1895), Rickelt, coming from Hanover , settled again in Berlin in 1896. The theaters in the capital on which the stout, beefy actor with the round face worked were the Thaliatheater, the Residenztheater, the Schiller Theater and the Lessingtheater , to which he would remain associated for many years.

Rickelt's subject were character figures, patriarchal fathers and dignitaries as well as humorous, odd characters, his best-known roles as “Just” in Minna von Barnhelm , “Krüger” in Der Biberpelz and “Auler” in pillars of society .

In the years 1926 to 1936, when Rickelt had long since largely withdrawn from active acting life, several film supporting roles were added. The 67-year-old artist received a rare leading role in 1929 with the old innkeeper "Anton Weber" in the melodrama Bobby, the gasoline boy.

Gustav Rickelt had made a name for himself as a committed advocate for the rights of actors more than with his acting activities. As long-time president of the German Stage Members' Cooperative , Rickelt fought for social security as well as for an appropriate collective wage for the actors. In this function he also supported the founding of the Berlin Artists' Colony . The aim of founding the colony was to provide affordable and comfortable living space for artists and writers.

In 1943 Rickelt's apartment at Westfälische Strasse 31 was bombed out and he left Berlin. He found accommodation with a befriended landowner in Silesia. In 1945 Rickelt fled Silesia from the advancing front. Gustav Rickelt died a good year after the end of the war in the monastery hospital in Wessobrunn, a few days after turning 84.

Rickelt has also worked as an author (including O Queen, life is beautiful, the person who wanted to get to know people, the lucky guy, the reparations agent ). Together with the Austrian actor and theater director Josef Jarno , he wrote the Schwank The Fortune Teller.

Rickelt's daughter Ruth Lippstreu-Rickelt, born in 1902, came from a relationship with Margarethe Lippstreu. In 1924 she married the well-known writer Frank Arnau . His sons were the actor and well-known television actor ( Uncle Franz from Lindenstrasse ) Martin Rickelt (1915-2004) and Niels Baumann-Rickelt (1912-2005), both of whom emerged from a relationship with the actress Maria Baumann.

Filmography

  • 1922: Earth Spirit
  • 1926: The Wiskottens
  • 1927: weekend magic
  • 1928: Sensational Trial
  • 1928: Lemke's blessed widow
  • 1928: City youth
  • 1928: The strange night of Helga Wangen
  • 1929: anesthesia
  • 1929: Bobby, the gasoline boy
  • 1930: the old song
  • 1930: fathers and sons
  • 1930: Flax man as an educator
  • 1930: The fate of Renate Langen
  • 1931: perpetrators wanted
  • 1931: a sweet secret
  • 1932: On holy waters
  • 1936: Uncle Bräsig

Works (selection)

  • Actors and directors. Social and economic issues from German theaters. Langenscheidt, Berlin 1910.
  • Queen ... life is beautiful! From the life of an old comedian. (Autobiography). Carl Reissner Publishing House, Dresden 1930.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Berliner Leben. Vol. 2, Issue 5, 1899, ZDB -ID 532920-6 , page no longer available , search in web archives: p. 78.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 130.73.102.86
personal data
SURNAME Rickelt, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and President of the Cooperative of German Stage Members (1914–1927)
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1946
Place of death Wessobrunn , Upper Bavaria