Josef Holub (actor)

Josef Holub (born December 31, 1890 in Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary , † November 8, 1965 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor .

Live and act

With the office of the Reichenberg Chamber of Commerce since 1911, Holub applied as a small actor to the painter, actor and later film producer Rudolf Walter , who had moved from Prague to Reichenberg , after the success of his first two short comedies, shot in Vienna in the summer of the same year I was looking for contributors for my own film production. And so, a little later in autumn 1913, Der Bauernschreck was the first film in which Walter and Holub could be seen together on the screen as Cocl & Seff , one of the first slapstick duos in film history.

While the massive Walter took over the part of the dumb Cocl , the narrow Holub played the Seff , and with their mostly short Cocl & Seff film grotesques, both of them quickly gained considerable popularity after the end of the First World War. From 1921/22 onwards, Walter's newly founded film production company Cocl-Comedy regularly supplied the Viennese Sascha-Film with short Cocl & Seff comedies until 1924/25 , which they used as supplementary programs in their own feature film repertoire.

Currency turmoil led to a rapid decline in Austrian film production in the following years, and so Walter withdrew completely from the film industry after the end of the Cocl & Seff films, in order to work as a car dealer from 1925. After a commercial for the Wiener Molkerei in 1926 - a parody of the German UFA film Paths to Strength and Beauty , which had been running the year before - Holub also largely gave up his character of Seff, only to admit supporting roles in front of the camera sporadically to step.

After his only sound film, the German-Czech Schwank Woe, when he let go , in which Holub was only allowed to play a tiny supporting role, a servant, made in Prague at the end of 1931 , he disappeared from the public eye and lived according to newspaper reports of advertising trips for the Henkel detergent brand Persil . In 1941 Holub was drafted into the Wehrmacht and stationed in a flight training regiment in Saxony, where he was promoted to captain in 1943. After the war he lived in Vienna until his death in 1965.

Filmography

1913: The peasant fright 1913: Cocl as host 1913: The aftermath of a great night 1914: Kokl as matchmaker 1914: a modern minstrel 1914: Uncle Cocl and the classless 1917: In the golden pheasant 1917: The lover in need 1919: Cocl goes to a rendezvous 1919: Seff in need of love 1920: Seff as a bookworm 1920: Seff as a sportsman 1920: The brave little tailor 1920: Cocl and Seff as villa owners 1920: Cocl, Seff and the black hand 1920: Seff and the virgins 1920: Seff as a boy 1920: Seff as a bridegroom 1920: Seff costs $ 24.50 1920: Seff and the business cards 1921: Seff does not want to be buried 1921: Seff as a detective; also: the white garter belt

1921: Cocl and Seff in Tingl-Tangl; also: Seff in the Varieté 1921: Seff as a film tragedy 1921: Seff in the beautification salon 1921: Cocl and Seff at the beach picnic 1922: The water sanatorium 1922: Cocl and Seff as vagabonds 1922: Seff at the post office 1922: Seff as a reporter 1922: Cocl and Seff doing water sports 1923: The Flapper Girl; also: Seff - the robber chief 1923: Seff boxes his way into the marriage 1923: Seff as an athlete 1923: Seff under arrest 1923: Seff rises 1923: Seff as a henpecked hero 1924: Seff as a troublemaker 1925: The disturbed Rendzvous 1926: Seff on the way to strength and beauty (advertising film) 1927: The Marriage of One Night (feature film) 1929: When “Götz” orders it 1931: woe when he let go (feature film)

Unless otherwise stated, these are short films.

literature

• Walter Fritz : Cinema in Austria 1896–1930. The silent film. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-215-04429-3 .
• Günter Krenn / Nikolaus Wostry (eds.): Cocl & Seff. The Austrian series comedians of the silent film era (incl. 2 DVDs). Verlag filmarchiv austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-52-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Krenn: The "Holub Seff" ; In: Günter Krenn / Nikolaus Wostry (eds.): Cocl & Seff. The Austrian series comedians of the silent film era . Verlag filmarchiv austria, Vienna 2010, p. 95 ff.
2. ^ Anton Thaller, Günter Krenn: Filmography Cocl & Seff ; In: Günter Krenn / Nikolaus Wostry (eds.): Cocl & Seff. The Austrian series comedians of the silent film era . Verlag filmarchiv austria, Vienna 2010, p. 177 ff.

Web links

• Josef Holub in the Internet Movie Database (English)