Jacob Feldhammer

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Jacob Feldhammer , also Jakob Feldhammer or Jacob Feldhamer (born May 16, 1882 in Czernowitz ; † May 23, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian actor .

Live and act

Feldhammer received his first permanent engagement at the Volkstheater in his Bukovinian hometown of Chernivtsi in 1904. The following year Max Reinhardt brought him to the Deutsche Theater Berlin . From December 1905 (debut as Wetzlaf in Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn ) , Feldhammer took on countless supporting and minor roles in both modern and classic pieces. He appeared in The Merchant of Venice , Oedipus and the Sphinx , Double Suicide , Tartüff and A Midsummer Night's Dream . In several productions of Goethe's Faust II over the years he played a plethora of characters, including Thales, Lynceus and a Herald. Reinhardt Feldhammer played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in 1912 and even played the title hero in Hamlet ten years later . Feldhammer had previously played Fortinbras in this Shakespeare play . As early as 1907, Feldhammer was seen with a rare leading role: he played Moritz Stiefel in a performance of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening .

Feldhammer stayed in Berlin until 1912, then went to Leipzig and finally to Vienna in 1913 to take up an engagement at the Neue Wiener Bühne. In 1918 Jacob Feldhammer returned to Germany and went to the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus for five years .

Back in Vienna since 1923 ( Deutsches Volkstheater , Kammerspiele ), Feldhammer came into contact with film sporadically. In the 1927 drama Der Abtrünnige he embodied the main or title role of the Jew who turned away from his faith. The stage remained Feldhammer's main field of work. Apart from an interlude at the United Municipal Theater in Düsseldorf in 1928/29, Feldhammer stayed in the Austrian capital, where he also worked as a theater director (Neues Wiener Schauspielhaus, 1929–31). During these two years he worked closely with Reinhardt's former assistant Otto Preminger .

The Jewish actor has hardly been employed since 1934: the last demonstrable engagement led him to Vienna's Die Komödie . Later only small artistic activities followed, such as for the Jewish sports club SC Hakoah Vienna . As a result of the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Feldhammer found himself deprived of all artistic activity.

In emigration

On his 57th birthday, Jacob Feldhammer signed off from Vienna for England - but he never arrived there. Instead, he was stranded in Italy, where he presumably spent the next four years. A longer stay in Milan from July 25, 1940 to September 30, 1943 is documented . On the latter date, German authorities transferred Feldhammer via the Sforzacosta camp to the Jewish collective and transit camp Fossoli near Carpi .

There he met his long-time colleague from both time together at Reinhardt's German Theater, Grete Berger . The German occupying forces deported both artists from Fossoli on May 16, 1944 to Auschwitz, where Feldhammer and Berger were murdered shortly after their arrival on May 23, 1944.

His sister was the actress Anna Feldhammer .

Fonts

  • Stefan Korein: Charlemagne . Edit for the stage v. Jakob Feldhammer. as Ms. Wien,: Gerstel-Verl. 1931

Movies

  • 1923: ... and there was light! ( Fiat Lux )
  • 1923: The Evangelimann
  • 1927: The Apostate

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 112.
  • Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 167 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Feldhamer ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at gershon-lehrer.be  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gershon-lehrer.be
personal data
SURNAME Feldhammer, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feldhammer, Jakob; Feldhamer, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp