Kurt Boeck
Kurt Karl Alexander Oskar Boeck (born June 10, 1855 in Antonienhütte , † October 4, 1933 in Munich ) was a German theater actor , mountaineer and travel writer .
Life
Boeck, the son of a steelworks owner, devoted himself to philosophical and scientific studies after graduating from secondary school. Occasionally, at a student performance by Schröder's students and Lützower at the Berlin National Theater , Theodor Döring assigned him the main role of “Holbach”, in which he was widely acclaimed. When this piece was repeated in Hamburg, Bernhard Pollini immediately wanted to engage him as a youthful hero.
Boeck refused this advantageous offer, however, only to finish the studies he had begun at his father's request, which he decided in Göttingen by rejecting the philosophical doctoral examination (1878).
After completing his military service as a one year old, he enjoyed his artistic training with the court actors Karl Gustav Berndal and Heinrich Oberländer . In spring 1880 Boeck was engaged at the Dresden court theater and entrusted with more important episode roles.
After Carl Ferdinand Koberstein's departure from the Dresden stage, his circle of roles grew. Although he also received a teaching position for acting and performing arts at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden in 1884 , he asked for a termination of his contract in 1885 because the royal theater in Kassel had offered him a more favorable engagement. In Kassel Boeck was more often able to distinguish himself in great roles, but when the opportunity arose in 1887 to accompany a research trip to Asia, especially to Persia and the Caucasus, he could not resist the temptation.
Researching and traveling in little-known, distant countries appealed to him so much that when he did not find the commitment he wanted after his return from Asia, he turned to this interesting profession. In 1890 Boeck first undertook an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains at his own expense, where he took the glacier guide Hans Kerner from Tyrol with him and traveled to India again in 1893, 1895 and 1898 to 1899 to get to know all parts of the country thoroughly. Boeck's lectures in numerous associations at home and abroad on these and his other trips to Burma, China, America, Japan, Siberia etc. have made him known to the general public, as have his articles in magazines.
Boeck had his permanent residence in Dresden.
- Images of the 1890 expedition
The Nalikanta , headwaters of the Alaknanda , from the east.
The Szurdse Kund from the south with the moraine of the Milam Glacier.
Gaurisankar (Mount Everest) and the Nepal Alps from the southern spur of Kinchinjunga .
The eastern neighbors of the Kinchinjunga.
The Kinchinjunga from the south.
The Kinchinjunga from the southeast.
Works
- 60 joke poems about photographs from the wonderland India , self-published, 1912
- Dr. Boeck's Himalaya album
- Through India into the closed country of Nepal , published by Ferdinand Hirt and Son, Leipzig, 1903 ( archive.org )
- Indian glacier trips , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1900 ( archive.org ),
- Indian glacier trips . Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn, new edition 2012, 352 pages, ISBN 978-3-86444-222-3
- Under the spell of Everest
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Boeck, Kurt . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 107 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon , Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook. First volume, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1953, p. 168
Web links
- bilder-aus-nepal.de
- Kurt Boeck in the Stadtwiki Dresden; with genealogy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boeck, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boeck, Kurt Karl Alexander Oskar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, mountaineer and travel writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antonienhütte |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |