Hans Peppler (actor)

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Hans Peppler (born June 5, 1883 in Stuttgart , † December 20, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Peppler had been on stage since the beginning of the 20th century and played in the provinces, for example in Glogau and Sondershausen , until the outbreak of World War I , where he was also employed as a director. Another theater station was Hanover . After the war, at the beginning of the 1920s, he continued his work as an actor and director in Königsberg at the Neues Schauspielhaus. At that time he was also a member of the drama cooperative as district chairman in East Prussia .

Hans Peppler had from 1924 to 1925 at the Lobe Theater in Wroclaw and from 1925 to 1926 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , a commitment again as an actor and director. From August 1926 he worked at the Wiener Kammerspiele and the Theater in der Josefstadt , where he also held the position of deputy director at the Kammerspiele in 1927. In Zurich he staged Goethe's drama Faust I in 1925 and Goethe's tragedy Egmont in 1926 at the Kammerspiele in Vienna . He also acted as an actor in both pieces. Peppler celebrated a particular success as Émile Zola in the play Dreyfus . In August 1929 he left the Austrian capital again. In the 1929/1930 season, Hans Peppler became a member of the Volksbühne ensemble in Berlin. There he also played in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening , in The Insurmountable by Karl Kraus and in Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber .

Peppler also gave acting lessons. Among other things, he trained the actor Hans Finohr .

Hans Peppler also worked in some film productions . These included the 1927 silent film Sacco and Vanzetti directed by Alfréd Deésy with Louis V. Arco , Fritz Spira and Werner Pittschau and in 1930 the feature film Brand in the opera by Carl Froelich with Gustav Fröhlich , Gustaf Gründgens and Paul Mederow . He played his last film role with Count Pourtalès in 1914, the last days before the world fire of Richard Oswald at the side of Albert Bassermann , Heinrich George and Eugen Klöpfer . However , he did not live to see the premiere of the film on January 21, 1931 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast .

Hans Peppler died on December 20, 1930 as a result of an appendix operation in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In an obituary, he was thought of as follows:

“The term 'character actor' is chosen on purpose, although Peppler with his tall figure, his even, expressive features and his soft voice seemed to be closer to the lover and older bon vivant type. He was a character player, that is, he tried to portray a character in every role. He did not, as has often become common practice, rely on the effect of his nature or his temperament, but rather pursued the nature and essence of the figure to be represented. "

- German stage yearbook 1932

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1274.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less , based on the Vienna registration card
  2. ↑ a b Stephen D. Youngkin: The Lost One. A Life of Peter Lorre . The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington KY 2005, ISBN 0-8131-2360-7 , Appendix pp. 455-460.
  3. ↑ Owners and directors of the Kammerspiele on the Theater- und Kinotopographie Wien project online; accessed on January 30, 2013
  4. ^ Richard Beer-Hofmann : The correspondence with Paula. 1896–1937 (= Large Richard Beer Hofmann Edition. Vol. 8 = Suppl.-Vol. 2). Edited, commented on and with an afterword by Richard M. Sheirich. Igel-Verlag Literatur, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89621-117-X , p. 437.
  5. ↑ Obituary. In: German stage yearbook. Vol. 43, 1932, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 98 f.
  6. ↑ Season chronicle of the Volksbühne 1929/1930 ( memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Volksbühne online; accessed on January 30, 2013
  7. ↑ season chronicle of the Volksbühne 1930/1931 ( memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Volksbühne online; accessed on January 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Portrait of Hans Finohr on defa-sternstunden.de; accessed on January 30, 2013
  9. ↑ Fire in the opera at cinema.de with film images by Hans Peppler; accessed on January 30, 2013
  10. ^ Obituary by Max Meyerfeld of December 23, 1930 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on horst-schroeder.com; accessed on January 30, 2013
  11. ^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 43, 1932, p. 98.
  12. ^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 43, 1932, p. 98.

Remarks

  1. ↑ No further biographical data could be determined despite research. Glenzdorf , IMDb, filmportal.de and all other sources do not make any further statements on this.
personal data
SURNAME Peppler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1930
Place of death Berlin