Karl Schill (actor)

Karl Maximilian Schill (* 21st January 1908 in Dresden , † after 1973) was a German actor of stage, film and television as well as a theater director.

Live and act

Schill attended the Oberrealgymnasium in Dresden and then took acting lessons from senior theater director Georg Kiesau from the Dresden State Theater. From 1937 Schill belonged to the ensembles in Halberstadt (city theater), Gera (Reussisches Theater, 1938/39), Krefeld (city theater 1939–41), Krakow (during the German occupation 1941–42) and Kiel (1942–44). The Dresden resident began his post-war career in 1945 at the Hamburger Kammerspiele, then went to the German theater of the Hanseatic city for two more seasons in 1947, before traveling to Bielefeld, Würzburg, Coburg and Heidelberg in 1949 for guest performances and individual stage direction. In 1954/55 Karl Schill joined Dortmund's municipal theaters. In 1957 he returned to Hamburg and worked as a director and actor on the stages of Harburg and, until the 1970s, Altona.

Schill's stage roles include Fiesko and Egmont (both Stadttheater Krefeld 1940), Heinrich (in Hauptmann's “ The Sunken Glocke ”) and Petruccio (in Shakespeare's “ The Taming of the Shrew ”, both Krakow 1941), the Prince of Homburg (Kleists play of the same name), the Gyges (in Hebbel's “ Gyges und seine Ring ”) and the Ferdinand (in Schiller's “ Kabale und Liebe ”, all Stadttheater Kiel 1942 to 1944), the Gregers Werle (in Ibsen's “ Die Wildente ”, Hamburger Kammerspiele 1945 ), the Oderbruch (in Zuckmayer's “ Des Teufels General ”, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 1947), the Captain Brant (in O'Neill's “ Trauer muss Elektra ”, ibid. 1948) and the Hector (in Giraudoux's “ The Trojan War does not take place ”, Bielefeld 1949). He was allowed to play Hamlet at the Municipal Theater in Würzburg and Othello at the Landestheater Coburg. With Osborn's “ Family Life” , Karl Schill was able to stage a play for the first time at the Bielefeld City Theaters in 1949. This was followed in the early 1950s by productions of “ Clavigo ”, “ Mirandolina ” and “ A phoenix too much ”.

At the same time (1949) Karl Schill made his film debut in “ Hafenmelodie ”. But he stayed completely away from film and television until the early 1960s when he settled in Hamburg. In just a decade of regular television activity (1961 to 1971) Schill was seen in a number of productions, including episodes of individual series, in which, however, he made hardly any impression.

Filmography

• 1949: Harbor melody
• 1961: Let me tell you my name is Cox (TV series)
• 1962: The red rooster
• 1963: The small court concert
• 1966–67: Cliff Dexter (TV series, two episodes)
• 1967: Civil War in Russia
• 1969: Jacques Offenbach - A picture of life
• 1970: Count Claus Stauffenberg
• 1971: The collar affair
• 1971: Maestro of the Revolution?

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 644.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1495.

Web links

• Karl Schill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karl Schill at filmportal.de