Karl Weiser (actor)

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Karl Weiser
Karl Weiser, around 1908
Karl Weiser (as Franz Moor) and Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg , 1889, from CW Allers

Karl Weiser , also Carl Weiser , (born July 29, 1848 in Alsfeld , Hesse , † July 30, 1913 in Weimar ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Weiser was the son of a theater-loving businessman; his mother was the daughter of the actor Julius Weidner and an uncle on his mother's side was the actor Theodor Weidner . According to his family's wishes, Weiser should study theology. When he finished school in his hometown, he joined a traveling theater against the will of his family .

After some small successes there, Weiser made his debut at the Freiburg Theater in 1866 in the role of Attinghausen . Hermann Hendrichs experienced this success and recommended him to Rudolf Cerf from the Victoria Theater in Berlin . After a short time there, Weiser came under contract with the United Theaters of Memel and Tilsit and from there in the fall of 1867 from there to the City Theater in Königsberg . In the following year he went to the city theater of Frankfurt (Oder) .

During the mobilization on the occasion of the Franco-German War , Weiser was drafted and fought u. a. in the battle of Sedan and took part in the siege of Paris in 1870/71.

After the end of the war, Weise played again in the theater, in Chemnitz , in Gera (1872) and in 1873 he was brought to the theater in Karlsruhe , where he was a member of the ensemble until 1880. When he gave a guest performance that year - which was forbidden according to the contract - he had to leave the theater. He therefore went to Hamburg for two years and in 1882 Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen recruited him personally for his theater. Weiser lived and worked as an actor at the Meininger Theater until 1892 and, by his own admission, was very proud to be a Meininger .

In the spring of 1892 Weiser ended his work in Thuringia and was committed to the USA . After great success in New York and Chicago , he returned to Germany and settled in Weimar. He worked as a director at the court theater there , where a short time later he was promoted to senior director.

In 1910/11, Weiser withdrew from the stage due to illness and died one day after his 68th birthday on July 30, 1913 in Weimar, where he also found his final resting place.

Karl Weiser was married to his colleague Emma Bender .

reception

As a schoolboy, Weiser wrote his drama “ Karl the Bold ”, which was just as popular on stage as his “ Friedrich the Great and Maria Theresa ”. His song cycle "Lust, Liebe und Leben" was created in the exuberance of general enthusiasm for war and was carried out in the style of Ernst Moritz Arndt . On the other hand, his previously published work “The high song of my love” was discussed extremely controversially, as it - according to the subtitle - was an erotic poem.

His drama “ Nero ”, published in 1883, had already been staged two years earlier under the title “Am Markstein der Zeit”. Weiser published his entire literary work under his own name; The only exception is his play "Rabbi David", which appeared under the pseudonym PWNvS.

"Equally qualified as a dramatic actor and poet, who has repeatedly come to the fore of general interest due to the eventful fate of life, at least to those members of our stage world who, more than the carriers of temporary successes, deserve the attention of the broadest circles"

- Rudolf von Gottschall : Stage and World

Works

Other
  • Parentheses . 1900.
  • Prophet's death . 1905.
biography
  • Ten years of Meiningen . 1904.
stories
  • A great guy. Novellas . 1893.
  • King Bluebeard. Novellas . 1881.
  • Strasbourg Cathedral. Poems . 1873.
Poetry
  • Erotica. Poems . 1889.
  • The high song of my love Erotic poems . 1869.
  • Koenigsberg blood court. Poems . 1870.
  • Light! Love! Life! Poems . 1878.
  • Diary sheets of love. Cycle of poems .
  • Women, heroes and fools. Poems . 1901.
Plays

Roles (selection)

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1106 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Otto Franke: Karl Weiser . In: Bühne und Welt , Vol. 3 (1900/01), Issue 2, pp. 761–766.
  • Karl Neuschild: [Obituary] . In: Bühnen-Roland , Vol. 14 (1913), July.

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personal data
SURNAME Weiser, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiser, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1913
Place of death Weimar