Karl Pistor (actor)

Karl Pistor (also: Carl Pistor , * 1780 or March 10, 1784 in Hamm ; † May 2, 1863 in Vienna ) was a German court actor .

Life

Karl Pistor was born on March 10, 1784 or 1780 as the son of a Prussian state official in Hamm.

He studied at the University of Halle and the University of Berlin , but then joined the Court Acting Society in Schwerin in 1804 . During the so-called " French period " he worked in Bremen from 1806 to 1813 as a member of the local theater , then briefly in Braunschweig and from 1814 at the Royal Court Theater in Hanover , where he also directed. On June 24, 1819, he became a lodge brother of the Johannis - Masonic lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär in the Orient of Hanover.

In 1822 he went to Prague to the regional theater there , where he initially played lover and character roles, but later switched very successfully to the field of comical old people and character batches. In 1826 he made his debut as “Witting” in the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater , of which he was a member until his death.

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Pistor played the main roles among others:

the Witting in August Wilhelm Iffland's Elise von Valberg
Jaromir Franz Grillparzer's The Ancestress 1
Ferdinand in Friedrich von Schiller's Cabal and Love
Philip II in Schiller's Don Carlos
Questenberg in Schiller's Die Piccolomini
Lennox in William Shakespeare's Macbeth
Antonio in Shakespears What you will

family

Karl Pistor married the very versatile actress Wilhelmine Pistor († October 13, 1866 in Vienna), with whom he was always engaged until his engagement in Vienna. The two became parents of actresses Betty Pistor , Josefine Pistor and Minna Pistor .

literature

HA Mansfeld: Theater people in the files of the kk Obersten Hoftheaterverwaltung from 1792–1867 , in: Yearbook of the Society for Vienna Theater Research , Volume 13, 1961, p. 107
Eisenberg
Graeffer – Czikann
Catalog of the portrait collection
Kosch: Theater Lexicon
Rub
Wurzbach
O. Teuber: History of the Prague Theater , Volume 3, 1888, p. 55

Web links

Pistor, Karl (1780-1863), actor , in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 , Vol. 8 (Lfg. 37, 1980), p. 102, transcription on the website biographien.ac.at of the Institute for Modern Times and Contemporary history research

Individual evidence

↑ Information in the catalog of the German National Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 , Vol. 8 (Lfg. 37, 1980), p. 102; Transcription on the website biographien.ac.at on the website of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research
^ ^A ^b ^c Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 26; Digitized via Google books

personal data
SURNAME	Pistor, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pistor, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German court actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamm
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1863
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Information in the catalog of the German National Library

[ÖBL-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 , Vol. 8 (Lfg. 37, 1980), p. 102; Transcription on the website biographien.ac.at on the website of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research

[Logenbruder-3] A ^b ^c Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 26; Digitized via Google books