Julius Christian Koch

Julius Christian Koch , actually Julius Christian Kellner ( 1792 in Cologne - December 18, 1860 ) was a German theater actor.

Life

Koch was the son of the actor couple, the waiters, and should devote himself to the pharmacist's trade. But he had no inclination for the booth and when his parents died he also went to the theater, but changed his name to Koch in 1812 to avoid the French conscription , after he tried acting in Bremen in 1808 and was lucky enough to take the stage would have. He remained engaged until 1811. Actor Friedrich Burmeister promoted the young man, tried to get his education and got him an engagement for comic roles in Braunschweig. However, Koch did not stay long and went to Franz Seconda in Dresden in 1812 , where he was a popular member until 1817.

His next engagement was Leipzig. His position there was not easy because he was supposed to replace the departed comedian Ferdinand Albert Aloys Wurm . The risk alone was successful, the new comedian was no less popular than the old one. He also worked almost continuously in Leipzig until 1832, in which year he undertook a major art tour through Germany and stayed nowhere long except in Magdeburg, Kassel and Hanover. In 1836 Koch finally entered a quiet harbor where he became a member of the court theater in Dresden, and for a quarter of a century, up to his death on December 18, 1860, was an outstanding artist in the field of comical old people.

In addition to the comic roles, he also played serious character roles and his "Shylock" in particular was an excellent, dignified, recognized performance. His main strength, however, was the comic subject, in which he was excellent. He was particularly popular as a couplet singer and his poses couplets, which he wrote himself, were cheered every time and asked for repetition. Bubbly humor, striking wit and an extraordinary body agility were his most characteristic qualities. He was one of the best German comedians.

Others

A portrait of the actor that was hanging in the Dresden Schauspielhaus was stolen on September 2012 and returned to the Schauspielhaus unharmed on December 21, 2017.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 522 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mdr.de: stolen painting again in the Dresden theater -. In: mdr.de. December 21, 2017, accessed September 3, 2018 . 

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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