Josef Commer

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Josef Commer (born November 17, 1875 in Mülheim am Rhein , † around 1927 possibly in Berlin ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Commer began his stage career in 1897 at the Krefeld City Theater. Other theater stations included Hanau (where he also worked as a director), Posen and Koblenz . Coming from Erfurt , he moved to Berlin in 1910 to take up an engagement at the Neues Schauspielhaus . Later he was seen at other venues in the capital, including the Theater am Nollendorfplatz , where he also worked as a director - at the Vaterländische Schauspiele and the Volksoper.

Commer's repertoire of roles included Shylock , Narcissus , Mephisto , Nathan the Wise , Franz Moor , Iago from Othello , Hamlet and the secretary Wurm from Schiller's Kabale und Liebe . Less known pieces with Commer were Franz von Schönthan's comedy Der Herr Senator , in which he played Andersen, the student drama Traumulus penned by Arno Holz and Oskar Jerschke , where he played Niemeyer, and the Otto Ernst comedy Flachsmann as educator in which he gave the title hero.

Josef Commer was mainly seen in the film during the first years of the Weimar Republic . There he was a supporting actor partner of popular screen divas such as Ossi Oswalda , Marija Leiko and several times Lee Parry . Above all, the production companies Zelnik-Mara Film and Eichberg Film signed the Rhinelander for their films. After 1926 his trail is lost, and Commer may have died in the late 1920s.

Filmography

  • 1919: The Ehrenreichs
  • 1919: Anna Karenina
  • 1920: The lucky pig
  • 1920: The law of the desert
  • 1920: Auri sacra fames
  • 1921: James Morres
  • 1921: The Beloved
  • 1921: Hazard
  • 1921: Derailed
  • 1921: The Silver King
  • 1921: The living propeller
  • 1921: The marriage of Hedda Olsen or The Burning Acrobat
  • 1921: In a cool valley
  • 1921: The buried me
  • 1921: The girl from Piccadilly
  • 1921: Deceiver of the people
  • 1921: The love adventures of the beautiful Evelyne or The Murder Mill on Evanshill
  • 1922: Yusuf el Fanit, the desert robber
  • 1922: The big hit
  • 1922: The booty of the Erinyes
  • 1922: The novel of a poor sinner
  • 1922: The street girl of Berlin
  • 1923: Katyusha Maslowa
  • 1923: Daisy
  • 1924: a lost daughter
  • 1924: The Race of Death
  • 1925: golden boy
  • 1925: The woman with something

Bibliography

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members. Berlin 1906. p. 52

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German Stage Yearbook 1927 has his name in the register for the last time, from the 1928 edition no more.
personal data
SURNAME Commer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH around 1927
Place of death unsure: Berlin