Karl Sontag

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Karl Sontag
Sunday as Bolingbroke in "A Glass of Water";
Wood engraving by Adolf Neumann , from Die Gartenlaube , 1877
Karl Sontags grave in the old Catholic cemetery in Dresden

Karl Sontag (also: Karl Sonntag or Carl Sontag or Karl Holm (pseudonym); * January 7, 1828 in Berlin , † June 23, 1900 in Dresden ) was a German actor, playwright and writer .

Life

Sontag was a son of the actress Franziska Martloff ; the singer Henriette Sontag and the actress Nina Sontag were his half-sisters from Franziska Sontag's marriage to Franz Sontag .

At the age of 20, Sontag was able to successfully complete the Königigl. Debut court theater in Dresden.

Between 1851 and 1852, Sunday was the king. Theater engaged in Vienna . Then he went to the city theater of Schwerin , where he played the first hero and bon vivant roles for seven years . In 1859 he was employed in Dresden and in 1862 in Hanover , where he devoted himself exclusively to comedy . Since 1877 he only gave guest roles, which repeatedly took him to North America. In 1885 he moved to Dresden.

Sontag also tried his hand at writing; mostly he published under his pseudonym "Karl Holm". He published the play Women's Emancipation, which made the rounds on all stages, and a very unreservedly judging autobiographical work under the title: From night watchman to Turkish emperor which prompted his dismissal from the Association of the Hanoverian Court Theater (1877).

Sontag died in Dresden in 1900 and was buried with his mother in the Old Catholic Cemetery .

Roles (selection)

Sontag knew how to give his bon vivants and the so-called Chargen such funny features that they had an irresistible effect.

Works

  • Women's emancipation . Hanover 1875.
  • Karl Sontag: From the night watchman to the Turkish emperor. Stage experiences from the diary of someone uninteresting . Helwing'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hanover 1875.

literature

  • JJ: A humorist on the stage and the pen . In: The Gazebo . Issue 23, 1877, pp. 381–382 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • HA Lier: Sunday, Karl . In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Volume 5. Reimer, Berlin 1903.
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Karl Sontag . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 583

Web links

Commons : Karl Sontag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ^ Sontag, Karl in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
  3. ↑ JJ: A humorist of the stage and the pen . In: The Gazebo . Issue 23, 1877, pp. 381–382 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm, Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1900
Place of death Dresden