Karl Elzer
Karl Conrad Valentin Elzer , also Carl Elzer (born August 2, 1881 in Karlsruhe , † August 30, 1938 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German actor .
Live and act
Elzer, who made his child debut as “little Englishman” in “ Die Puppenfee ” at the age of eight , began his professional career at the turn of the century as a volunteer under Albert Bürklin , general manager of the court theater in his home town of Karlsruhe. In addition, Elzer received private acting lessons from Wilhelm Wassermann . Elzer then went through the classic acting career with obligations in the German provinces: his stage stations were Gera , Flensburg and Stettin . In the 1907/1908 season he was partner of Viktor Schwanneke and the young Emil Jannings , who also directed, at the Bellevue Theater in the latter city in Pomerania . In 1911, the director of the Schiller Theater, Max Pategg , who had seen him on a suburban stage as Bertram in Robert und Bertram , brought him to the venue he ran. In the following years, especially since the late phase of the First World War , Elzer split his work between theater and film, to which Viggo Larsen first brought the 30-year-old at the beginning of his time in Berlin. Briefly drafted during the war, Karl Elzer was seriously wounded at the front.
Especially between 1918 and 1931 he took part in supporting roles in an abundance of films. Elzer was given every form of the classic film batch; Above all, he regularly embodied rich and highly placed personalities: John Rockefeller in Maud Rockefeller's Wette , the factory owner Aßmann in Die Aßmanns , the Elector Max von Bayern in A Girl from the People , whom Count Aranyi bursts into The Competition , Prince Ludwig in Lena Warnstetten , the Burgtheater director in Kaiserliebchen , Friedrich the Wise in Luther and the banker Fören in The Blue Lantern . After 1931, Karl Elzer was only rarely active in sound films. In addition to his theater and film activities, the Karlsruhe native was also intensively involved in the Berlin cabaret scene.
In the last years of his life he artistically tied himself to the Berlin theater under the direction of Oscar Ingenohl and to the Theater der Jugend, "whose grateful and enthusiastic visitors he conveyed unforgettable impressions in 460 performances and in whose memory he will live on", as it is in an obituary in 1939 was called.
Elzer was married to the writer Margarete Elzer , the daughter of Hedwig Courths-Mahler . He committed suicide because of bladder cancer .
Filmography
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literature
- Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 49.
- Obituary. In: German Stage Yearbook. Vol. 50, 1939, ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 123.
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 1: A - Hurk. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt et al. 1953, p. 393.
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 354.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Stage Yearbook. Vol. 50, 1939, p. 123.
- ↑ Who is who? 12th edition of Degeners Who is it? . 1955, sv Elzer, Margarete Anna Elisabet .
- ↑ Ben Witter: Celebrity portraits , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1977, new edition 2015.
Web links
- Karl Elzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karl Elzer at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Elzer, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elzer, Karl Conrad Valentin (full name); Elzer, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1938 |
| Place of death | Rottach-Egern |