Leo Connard

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Leo Connard (born August 28, 1860 in Fünfkirchen , Austrian Empire , today Hungary ; † in the 20th century ) was an Austrian silent film and theater actor with occasional excursions to direct .

Life

The son of a secondary school director received his artistic training in 1877 from Friedrich Mitterwurzer at the Vienna Conservatory . Connard started his career in Marburg an der Drau in 1879 . Theater stations in Reichenberg , Chemnitz , Cologne , Meiningen , Mainz , Prague (1888–1891) and Stuttgart (1891–1895) followed. Tours took him to tsarist Russia ( St. Petersburg , Moscow , Warsaw ).

In Berlin since 1895, Leo Connard followed a call to the Lessing Theater . The following year he accepted an engagement at the Berlin theater . Before the turn of the century, Connard also took part in theater festivals in Wiesbaden . In the new century, Leo Connard played at Vienna's Raimund Theater and, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , at the German theater in (then) Russian Riga . Here he was also allowed to direct.

In his theatrical work, Connard covered virtually the entire range of great hero characters: He played Richard III , among others . , Iago in Othello , Franz Moor , Mephisto , Narcissus and Harpagon. "His achievements are captivating through the naturalness and ease of movement and temperament. His speech is rich in color, he speaks clearly and compellingly, equally well in all situations and degrees of strength, and has excellent facial expressions and gestures. The artist does not appeal to the applause of the crowd, but achieves the greatest effect with his own intelligence. "

In the middle of the war, Leo Connard began filming intensively. Mostly he received supporting roles as an honorary officer and a citizen. Connard embodied fathers, doctors, shipowners, marshals, large farmers, councilors, police chiefs and large landowners. He worked several times in Richard Oswald's productions , but also shot with EA Dupont , Friedrich Zelnik , Friedrich Fehér and, most recently, Hans Kyser . In 1918 he directed the Hella Moja film, Wonderful is the fairy tale of love, for the only time. At the end of the 1920s, Leo Connard disappeared from the public eye; presumably he died a little later.

Connard was married to his professional colleague Marie 'Mizzi' Lettau, who had also acted as Maria Connard in his only film production.

Filmography

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 161, p. 160 f.
  • Movie star. Richter's Handbook of Actors, Directors and Writers of Film. Vol. 4, 1921/1922, ZDB -ID 1342234-0 , p. 19.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 1: A - Hurk. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt et al. 1953, first volume, p. 275.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The place of birth Vienna, which is often read, is just as wrong as the year of birth "1869", since Connard began to play theater as a professional adult actor as early as 1879.
  2. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. = Stage lexicon. List, Leipzig 1903, p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Connard, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Five Churches , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 20th century