Karl Skraup

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Karl Skraup (born July 31, 1898 in Atzgersdorf , † October 2, 1958 in Munich ) was an Austrian folk actor . He was one of the most popular actors in Austria of his time.

Life

Karl Skraup was discovered by the writer Franz Theodor Csokor in the Viennese suburb of Perchtoldsdorf during an open-air performance. Csokor recommended him to Rudolf Beer , who at the time was head of the German People's Theater and the Raimund Theater in Vienna . At first, however, Skraup only worked as a stage manager . When Beer brought the play Six People Looking for an Author to the German-language premiere in 1924 by the hitherto unknown Luigi Pirandello , he had the stage manager of the drama played by the real stage manager, Karl Skraup. In this performance, Skraup was discovered, with all four movements and a "pathetic wretched figure" endowed with his special voice. Engagements in Basel , Brno and Strasbourg followed .

From 1935 he was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volkstheater under the directors Rudolf Beer , Walter Bruno Iltz , Günther Haenel , Paul Barnay and Leon Epp . He did not rely on traditional effects, but fought for the depth and fullness of Viennese humor with a passionate search. Symptomatic was Skraup's brittle, rough voice and a narrow, small, hunched figure.

Oskar Maurus Fontana said in a speech in 1968 on the occasion of the award of the newly created Karl Skraup Prize : “Your characters were always right and wrong at the same time, caught in an indissoluble pallawatsch of thinking, feeling and being and always breaking out of it into a sovereign freedom . You added a new type to the Viennese comedy and you enriched the Viennese art of depicting people with a new way of seeing and creating. "

Karl Skraup's grave

From the 1930s, Skraup also appeared in many movies.

His grave is on the Atzgersdorfer Friedhof in Vienna (group M, number 97).

repertoire

Thanks to his versatility, Skraup impersonated not only comical, but also serious roles with great success. As an "episodist of the grotesque" he played the scoundrel in Schiller's Die Räuber and the Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (both 1938). Skraup soon developed into the leading folk actor of Viennese humor and a great actor .

Skraup played such opposites as the drastic figures of the frog in the bat by Johann Strauss and the Menelaus in Jacques Offenbach's Schöne Helena , but also the melancholy fools of Shakespeare , the touchstone in As You Like It and the fool in King Lear and old Miller in Schiller's Cabal and Love . He played the cunning carpenter Engstrand in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts with Else and Albert Bassermann and the refugee Jakobowsky in Franz Werfel's emigrant comedy Jakobowsky and the Colonel , the revolutionary beggar in Calderon's The Great World Theater , the chamber heater Stockel in The Young Baron Neuhaus and the old one Weiring in Arthur Schnitzler's love affair . Skraup shone as the half-confused king in GB Shaw's Die Heiligen Johanna , as the pedantic chancellor Bormann in the catacombs of Gustav Davis , as the magical king in the Austrian premiere of Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods (1948), one of the greatest theater scandals of the post-war period (with Inge Konradi and Harry Fuss ) or in Hermann Bahr's Der Querulant and as the good soldier Schwejk . Shiny roles were in 1948 Mr. Schlögl in Hundred Thousand Schillings by Alexander Farago and Kleines Genie (1955).

Above all, however , Skraup created unforgettable characters in the Austrian Volksstück : he played Johann Nestroy in numerous pieces , often directed by Gustav Manker , including Krautkopf in Der Zerrissene (1942), Kampl (1947), and Melchior in Eine Jux he wants himself make (1950), the house servant Mouflon in earlier conditions , Spund in Der Talisman (1951), in The old man with the young woman , in My friend (1955) and the planer in Lumpazivagabundus (1957). He was Ferdinand Raimund's ghost king Longimanus in The Diamond of the Ghost King (1944) and the ministering ghost Azur in Der Verschwender (1949). In Ludwig Anzengruber's plays he was the farmer Dusterer in Der G'wissenswurm , in 1949 Wurzelsepp in Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld with Hans Jaray and Hilde Sochor , later the old Schalanter in The Fourth Commandment (1952) and in the film adaptation of the same play (1950) the caretaker nice.

In Jacques Offenbach's operetta Die Schöne Helena , which was translated into the Viennese idiom by Gustav Manker at the Volkstheater , Skraup appeared on stage alongside Fritz Imhoff , Christl Mardayn and Inge Konradi (set design: Stefan Hlawa , choreography: Rosalia Chladek ) as King Menelaus , whereby it night after night in his speech to the Greek people extemporierend einbaute current Viennese daily events in his text.

Karl Skraup Prize

The Karl Skraup Prize was founded in Skraup's honor and was awarded at the Vienna Volkstheater from 1969 to 2010 .

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paulus Manker : The theater man Gustav Manker . Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0
personal data
SURNAME Skraup, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Atzgersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1958
Place of death Munich