Karl Morvilius

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Karl Morvilius (born November 21, 1883 in Germersheim , Germany , † June 2, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German Therater and film actor and painter .

Live and act

The merchant's son had attended an art school and also trained as an actor. In the first decade of the 20th century he played theater in the provinces (for example in Saargemünd in Lorraine ), shortly afterwards (before the First World War ) for the first time on a (still tiny) Berlin stage. Shortly after the war, there were also a few offers from film. Nevertheless, Karl Morvilius suffered the typical life of a small actor, whose obligations from the stage and film hardly yielded enough for the necessary livelihood. The artist, who was married to the craftsperson Gretchen Morvilius, née Gröting, received, in addition to long periods of unemployment, only sporadic permanent theater engagements. From 1928 to 1931 he can be traced back to the Intimate Theater in Nuremberg and from 1935 to 1937 at Berlin's theater in Saarlandstrasse. In 1938 and from 1942 to 1944 he found a meager livelihood thanks to an engagement at the Deutsches Theater .

During the Third Reich he played a considerable number of small roles in partly propaganda films . He played an interpreter and shareholder as well as a servant and a cake baker, a press photographer as well as a waiter, a stage manager and even once a Chinese ( your life belongs to me ). Nevertheless, Morvinius was constantly in financial difficulties during the Nazi era and lived from the artist welfare "donation artist thanks". Since he repeatedly revolted against the Reichsfilmkammer and accused them of insufficient efforts in his cause, he was put on record several times.

After 1945 roles were not offered either from the stage or from film . Morvilius remembered his second talent, painting, and began to be creative in it. In 1958 Adolf Jannasch wrote to the Berlin Art Library: “As I was able to report to you recently, the painter Karl Morvilius [...] donated some graphic sheets to the 20th Century Gallery, and because he also wanted to donate some Japanese woodcuts to a Berlin museum , I suggested the art library to Mr. Morvilius. (...) I am handing over this foundation of the painter Morvilius to you. ”Morvilius last lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, where he died in 1960, completely forgotten by the world of art, theater and film.

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1160.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morvilius in National Museums in Berlin
  2. ↑ Morvilius in National Museums in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Morvilius, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor in theater and film and a painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Germersheim , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1960
Place of death Berlin