Karl Luzius

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Karl Luzius (born October 27, 1907 ; † after 1980) was a German actor , drama teacher and author .

Life

Luzius completed his acting training with Alfred Auerbach and Johanna Zademak in Frankfurt am Main. He gained his first stage experience as an apprentice at the New Theater there . In the 1920s, Luzius was one of the founders of the “Emergency Association of Young Authors” and wrote texts for cabaret programs. In 1931 he was one of the founding members of the Porza Cabaret in Frankfurt's Steinernen Haus, the first literary night cabaret in Frankfurt. After barely two years it was closed by the National Socialists and Luzius was expelled from the Reichstheaterkammer as well as from the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

Gustaf Gründgens provided him with a new field of activity in Berlin. Here Luzius participated in stage and cabaret programs. After the end of the war he designed various entertainment and literature programs in Berlin. He was awarded a cabaret prize at a matinee at the Cabaret of the Comedians on Kurfürstendamm. In 1946/47 at the German National Theater in Weimar , he finally found another long-term field of activity in Frankfurt am Main. There he played Struwwelpeter Cabaret and founded the Frankfurt Studio in autumn 1947, where he gave acting lessons. Occasionally, Luzius also took on roles in film and television productions such as Sohrab Shahid Saless ' Order , Rainer Wolffhardt's multi-part series Jauche and Levkojen based on Christine Brückner and several episodes of the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei .

In addition, Luzius was a long-time member of the Schopenhauer Society .

Filmography (selection)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Petra Kohse: Marianne Hoppe: a biography , Berlin: Ullstein 2001, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch , 87th year, season 1978/79, p. 706.
  3. ↑ : Arthur Hübscher / Clemens Köttelwesch: Paths to Schopenhauer , Brockhaus 1978, p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Luzius, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, drama teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1907
DATE OF DEATH after 1980