Kurt Busch (actor)

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Kurt Busch , spelling Curt Busch , (* February 5, 1879 in Riga , then Russian Empire , now Latvia ; † October 7, 1954 in St. Gallen ) was a Russian-German opera and operetta singer and actor in the theater and in German silent films .

Live and act

Kurt Busch was born in Riga in 1879. The city belonged to the Livonia Governorate of the Russian Empire, but the official language was German . His parents also reflect this dualism, because his Russian father married a Hanoverian. Kurt Busch's wife Grete was also German.

He completed a music and singing degree in Wroclaw . He began his stage career in 1901 at the opera stage of the Wroclaw City Theater as a tenor buffo and a young operetta comedian. He then took on engagements at the Oberschlesisches Volkstheater in Königshütte, today's Chorzów (1902/03), and at the imperial subsidized city theater in Bromberg, today's Bydgoszcz (1903-1905). From 1905 to 1911 at the Riga City Theater, Busch shaped his preferences. The star role he appropriated was Count Danilo in The Merry Widow . With it he celebrated guest successes in Germany and Russia. In the five years that he stayed at the Riga City Theater, he also began to play serious theater roles. His next stops were the Central Theater in Dresden and the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart. In both cases Busch's hopes were not fulfilled. After personal difficulties, he left the venue after only one season. After all, he managed to make an entry in the history of theater by participating in the world premiere (the first version) of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss on October 25, 1912 in the role of dance master. His numerous silent film roles between 1913 and 1924 have a lasting effect on the general public.

In 1913/14 he went to Berlin to the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . His employment relationship lasted until the summer break of 1917. At the beginning of the following season, a new one began at the New Operetta Theater in Hamburg. He returned to Berlin for the 1920/21 season, this time to the theater on Kommandantenstrasse. This was followed by a one-year engagement at the Potpurri cabaret in Berlin's Bellevuestrasse. He then succeeded as a director of the operetta in Tetschen-Rodenbach , located on the German-Czechoslovakian border, at the Operetten- und Schauspielhaus. Despite his new role, he was still on the cast in the operetta field. Then he was called to the German Theater in Riga as director . Here, too, he himself appeared in operettas. In 1925 he founded and directed the German Operetta as a spin-off from the German Theater.

In 1927 he relocated his activities to Switzerland. In 1928 he acted and sang under the still young director Walter Felsenstein at the Stadttheater Basel and was also a director himself . The last time he changed his place of work was in 1930 when he went to the St. Gallen City Theater . Here he developed his skills as an opera and operetta singer and soon rose from game director to senior director. Until his death in 1954 at the age of 76, he stood on the stage, both in St. Gallen and in Zurich, where he occasionally made trips, but also in Austria, where he made a long guest appearance at the Stadttheater in the 1938/39 season Baden near Vienna existed. In the operetta field he embodied many character roles , such as Gabriel von Eisenstein in the Fledermaus , Kálmán Zsupán in the Gypsy Baron or Kamek Pascha in the Rose von Stambul . In the opera field he sang the four servant roles in Hoffmann's tales , Alcindoro in La Bohème and Yamadori in Madame Butterfly .

Filmography

  • 1913: The pink slipper
  • 1916: Everything as a favor
  • 1916: The suffering of love
  • 1916: The mysterious advertisement
  • 1916: The pink slipper II
  • 1916: The image of the mother
  • 1916: The whip
  • 1916: Countess Fifi
  • 1916: His youthful sin
  • 1916: Matches, buy matches!
  • 1917: Amandu's bridal trip
  • 1917: The question mark
  • 1917: One night's fate
  • 1917: Those who live in the shadows
  • 1917: The Furnished Friends
  • 1917: Maria Botti's fate
  • 1917: Moritz Meyer as bailiff
  • 1917: Yellowed letters
  • 1919: Mausi
  • 1921: The King of Golconda. 1. The King of Golconda
  • 1921: The King of Golconda. 2. The falling mountain
  • 1921: The King of Golconda. 3. To a kingdom
  • 1921: Dorittchen's pleasure trip
  • 1922: Your valet
  • 1924: The homeless

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c files relating to engagement, employment and pension relationships. Ranks, titulatures, decorations. Personal details . 81. Curt Busch. Actors and singers. July 31, 1913 ( landesarchiv-bw.de [accessed on August 15, 2018] in particular image 6, image 7, image 19, image 20, image 21).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon . With the participation of Hansjörg Rost. Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. tape 1 . Aarden Castles. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , Busch, Curt, p. 663 f .
  3. ^ Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members (Ed.): New Theater Almanach 1914th Anniversary Edition. Theater-historical year and address book . Berlin 1914, Berlin. XXVII. Theater am Nollendorfplatz, S. 319 .
  4. ↑ Cooperative of German Stage Members, German Stage Association (ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Theater history year and address book. Founded in 1889 . FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin 1921, Berlin. XXIX. Theater id Kommandantenstrasse, S. 283 .
  5. ↑ German Stage Association, Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Theater history year and address book. Founded in 1889 . FA Günther & Sohn, Berlin 1922, Berlin. XVI. Cabaret Potpurri, S. 284 .

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SURNAME Busch, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German operetta singer and theater and silent film actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1954
Place of death St. Gallen