Joseph Plaut

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Joseph Plaut (born June 5, 1879 in Detmold ; † November 25, 1966 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German actor , reciter and local poet from Lippe .

Life

Joseph Plaut was born the son of a Jewish teacher and school inspector . After completing his commercial training, he worked as a clerk and then served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian army . Here he was already using his speaking skills as a troop entertainer with his sketches . He then studied singing at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Engelbert Humperdinck and Hans Pfitzner were among his teachers . From 1902 he made a career as an opera singer, especially as a buffo , first in smaller cities, then until 1914 in Berlin at the German Opera House and at the Hebbel Theater .

Plaut took part in the First World War as a soldier . He then appeared as an actor and performing artist together with his wife Maria Schneider with cabaret programs , the Heiteren Plaut-Evenings , and published numerous recordings. He could also be heard on the radio. Frequently, themes from his military days found their way into his skits. Military memories of a Westphalian , instruction hour and funeral speech by a Prussian lieutenant became famous. In addition to these self-invented and continuously developed texts, he recited prose and poetry , among others by Theodor Fontane , Hans Christian Andersen and Anton Chekhov in an idiosyncratic, captivating manner.

He mastered numerous dialects that he used to create his comedy (including Saxon, East Prussian and Lippian). During the time of National Socialism he was disturbed by SA people in the Detmold State Theater with rabble-rousing and stink bombs when he was performing the historically handed down soldier 's song Lippe-Detmold, a beautiful city that is actually an anti-war song . Paradoxically, this song nevertheless advanced to become the Lippische and Detmold anthem on the one hand, and the military marching song on the other, and is still sung in the Bundeswehr today. In 1936 he had to emigrate to South Africa via Switzerland and from there to England in 1937 . First interned on the Isle of Man , he was later able to work for the BBC .

After the war, Joseph Plaut returned to Germany in 1951, where he again worked as a reciter and actor for theater and radio. In 1960/61 he told fairy tales and stories for children in a series on German television. Shortly before his death he recited at the invitation of the then Head Boy of the Detmold Christian Dietrich Grabbe Gymnasium , Edgar Selge , before enthusiastic students.

Works

  • The cheerful Plaut book. A collection of contemplative, comical and funny poems and lectures from the program of the cheerful Plaut evenings . Brothers Enoch-Verlag, Hamburg 1922.
  • Hille-Bille. Original lectures from the program of the cheerful Plaut evenings . Brothers Enoch-Verlag, Hamburg 1929.
  • The cabaret in the house. A fun lecture book . Falken Verlag, Berlin 1950. (Later only under the name: Pleasurable Lecture Book . A total of 21 editions, until 1989)
  • Humor of the heart . Mosaik, Hamburg 1960. Also as Bertelsmann Lesering edition (approx. 1962)
  • HUMOR & SATIRE, cheerful and contemplative . Mosaik-Verlag, Hamburg 1962.

Editing

  • The cheerful Plaut book . Hamburg 1919.

Sound documents (selection)

Re-releases

  • Vinyl single 17cm: Joseph Plaut sings songs from Lippe: Die Varusschlacht, Hannken, come to the door, Lippische Schützen, Man shouldn't be concerned with love. (Ariola 36285 C)
  • CD Schlager Medaillons - The Schlager learns to walk 1929-27 (2 CD book box), lovers edition, contains as title 14 Joseph Plaut - When the Romans got naughty (1927).
  • CD as a supplement to the book: Lippe-Detmold, a beautiful city . Songs and texts by the Jewish lecture artist Joseph Plaut from Lippe-Detmold (1879–1966) with numerous unpublished photos and 18 original recordings of shellac records on an inserted CD. Dr. Eugen Heinen (Ed.), Detmold 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-019801-4 .

literature

  • Eugen Heinen (ed.): Chottechott, what is it with that !? Joseph Plaut. On the life and work of the Jewish lecturer from Lippe Detmold (1879–1966). Verlag Buchantiquariat Lippe, self-published by the (APK), Detmold 2004, ISBN 3-00-014433-1 .
  • Artist on the radio. A pocket album of the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk", dedicated to our readers . Verlag Rothgießer & Diesing, Berlin 1931, page 157.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, unpaginated.
  • Rainer E. Lotz and Andreas Masel: Discography of German cabaret. Volume 4, 1996, ISBN 978-3-9803461-6-0 .
  • Tobias Widmayer: At seventy, the Lippische Schützen moved. In: Historisch-Kritisches Liederlexikon, November 2009, [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, unpaginated.
  2. ↑ Künstler am Rundfunk 1931, page 157, (with illus.) Where it says of him: "Josef Plaut, the popular speaker and reciter, is a popular guest of the West German Radio"
  3. ↑ Recordings at Ariola-Litera Herz und Humor (25cm-LP) with texts by Alphonse Daudet, Theodor Fontane, Johann Peter Hebel, Hans Christian Andersen and Anton Chekhov. Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 20, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playitagainsam-online.de
  4. ↑ Disruption of the performance of the Jewish artist Joseph Plaut in the Lippisches Landestheater in Detmold by the NSDAP local group , newspaper article: in Lippische Landes-Zeitung on April 12, 1932, accessed on December 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Joseph Plaut tells on fernsehserien.de, accessed on December 13, 2016.
  6. ^ About the invasion of the Lippe soldiers in France at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71. See Tobias Widmayer 2009


personal data
SURNAME Plaut, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, reciter and local poet from Lippe
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1966
Place of death Bad Salzuflen