Julius Kobler

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Julius Kobler (born April 21, 1866 in Dambořice , † June 22, 1942 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Julius Kobler was born as the son of the married couple Juda and Hanny Kobler, b. Stiassny, born in the South Moravian region . In 1889 he made his stage debut at the Deutsches Theater in Pilsen, and in 1890 he moved to the Meininger Theater . From 1891 Kobler had various engagements in Berlin, Vienna and New York until he settled in Hamburg in 1904 and performed at the Thalia Theater there . In 1917 he moved to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . While Kobler had already advanced to an outstanding interpreter of comic and character roles at the Thalia Theater, he was celebrated at the Schauspielhaus by audience and press alike as “Hamburg's best comic actor”.

Known roles were Koblers the village judge Adam in Heinrich von Kleist's comedy The Broken Jug , the reindeer Kruger in Biberpelz of Gerhart Hauptmann , Harpagon in The Miser by Molière or Shylock in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice . Kobler also played in Hauptmanns Florian Geyer and in Der G'wissenswurm by Ludwig Anzengruber . He was also responsible for the staging of the Zerbrochnen Krug .

Kobler was dismissed by the then director Karl Wüstenhagen in 1934 for "racial reasons". Until 1936 he appeared on tours abroad in Austria, the Netherlands and what was then Czechoslovakia, until 1938 he was also active in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden , which gave him the opportunity to perform further stage appearances and directorial work.

In the first half of the 1920s Kobler took part in a number of silent films, several of which were produced by Vera-Filmwerke , a Hamburg-based film production company.

In the 1930s Kobler was diagnosed with stomach cancer, but he was successfully operated on in Vienna in 1936. In the summer of 1942 the disease broke out again, which is why he was admitted to the Eppendorf University Hospital in June . There he was refused another operation due to a decree from 1936, according to which Jews were only to be treated in extreme emergencies. Kobler was then transferred to the Israelite Hospital , where he died on June 22, 1942 at the age of 76.

In 1916 Kobler married the singer Käthe Wettwer (* 1893), a non-Jew. From this marriage the children Norbert (* 1916) and Eva (* 1918) emerged, who were also drawn to the stage, but both of them were denied after 1933 as so-called “ valid Jews ”. Norbert Kobler had already played theater with his father before the National Socialists came to power and also appeared with him on the aforementioned tours abroad from 1934. Unlike his father, who did not believe in a long Nazi rule, he emigrated to the USA in 1938. His sister Eva received a deportation order to Theresienstadt in 1944, was initially able to flee, was briefly imprisoned, but after her release she survived until the end of the war without further reprisals.

Honors

In 1987 the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg named a footpath between Steintordamm and Altmannbrücke along the Museum of Art and Commerce after Julius Kobler. Furthermore, two stumbling blocks remind of the actor. One was relocated in 2006 in front of his last residence at Oberstrasse 5 in the Harvestehude district , the other in 2008 on Kirchenallee in front of the entrance to the theater.

Filmography

  • 1921: bandits in tails
  • 1921: The blonde fate
  • 1921: The red night
  • 1922: The little shorthand typist
  • 1922: The fate of a circus rider
  • 1922: Flotsam of passion
  • 1922: Don Juan
  • 1923: Jimmy, a fate of humans and animals
  • 1924: Dark Forces

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e biography on stolpersteine-hamburg.de , accessed on November 8, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Biography on the website of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus ( memento of the original dated November 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielhaus.de
personal data
SURNAME Kobler, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dambořice
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1942
Place of death Hamburg