Leonhard Haskel

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Leonhard Haskel (born April 7, 1872 in Seelow , † December 30, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German actor , chief director and dramaturge .

Live and act

Haskel began his artistic activity in 1898 in the role of senior director and dramaturge at the Berlin Sanssouci Theater. After various follow-up engagements at several other theaters in the capital such as the Metropol-Theater , where he was successful both as a comedian and as a character actor, he founded his own touring stage, the 'Leonhard-Haskel-Gastspiel', before the First World War others, Hamburg , Dresden , Leipzig , Chemnitz , Karlsruhe , Königsberg and Halle traveled. Later Leonhard Haskel also worked as a senior director and actor (subject: character comedian) at the Possentheater in Berlin and most recently at the Meinhardt-Bernauer-Bühnen there.

After he had already worked in three sound images in 1907, Haskel was also a sought-after film actor (mostly batches) from 1915 until his death in late 1923, both in character and comic roles. He played senior teachers and art dealers, sultans and guards, notaries and generals, opera directors and ministers, police inspectors and shoemakers.

Haskel also appeared as a playwright. In 1917 he wrote the libretto for Walter Bromme's three-act operetta Die Kinopuppe .

Haskel also wrote manuscripts for films, including several episodes of the Krause series starring Karl Neisser , wrote literary templates for films and directed three films.

Audio documents

In his heyday as an actor and operetta comedian, he also sang Edison cylinders and gramophone records in the years before and during the First World War, sometimes with other well-known contemporary actors:

Edison cast gold rollers

  • EGW 15 546 Do you want to be my cousin? (Music: Victor Hollaender )
  • EGW 15 600 Die Schweinenot (music: Victor Hollaender)
  • EGW 15 663 I love you, I love you (music: August Philipp) (duet with Anna Müller-Lincke )
  • EGW 15 727 Charlemagne (music: Victor Hollaender)

Gramophone records

  • Gr 2-44 04, also 2-44 012 (mx. 3877 k) Gauner-Duett (music: Victor Hollaender) (with Fritzi Massary )
  • Gr 3-42 892 (mx. 3301 r) The people from Kurfürstendamm (music: Victor Hollaender)
  • Gr 3-42 893 (mx. 3312 r) AEG-Couplet (music: Vicor Hollaender)
  • Odeon X-64 882 and X-64 892 The messenger boy (duet with Guido Thielscher ) I and II
  • Odeon 34 793 Eitzes (Music: Victor Hollaender)
  • Odeon 34 794 Die Schweinenot (Music: Victor Hollaender)
  • Janus Record 5375 (mx. 1150) The volunteer: Jewish recitation. Leonhard Haskel, Berlin
  • Janus Record 5375 (mx. 1152) Der Motorführer: Jewish recitation. Leonhard Haskel, Berlin

Operettas

  • The cinema doll . Posse in 3 acts by Leonhard Haskel. Lyrics by Will Steinberg . Music by Walter Bromme. Berlin, Bühnenverlag Ahn & Simrock, around 1917.

Films (selection)

literature

  • Movie star. Richter's Handbook of Actors, Directors and Writers of Film. Volume 4, 1921/1922, ZDB -ID 1342234-0 , p. 37.
  • Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Rainer E. Lotz, Axel Weggen (Ed.): The German National Discography Series 6: Discography of the Judaica recordings. Volume 1, Verlag Birgit Lotz, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9810248-3-4 .
  • Irene Stratenwert, Hermann Simon (Ed.): Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world. Henschel, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-471-6 , pp. 236, 240.
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  2. ↑ on this early form of the sound film cf. Wedel pp. 58 and 79 ff.
  3. ↑ According to The German Early Cinema Database # 9, he played in 31 silent films between 1907 and 1920 alone, cf. GECD [1]
  4. ↑ cf. GECD [2]
  5. ↑ cf. GECD [3]
  6. ↑ cf. GECD [4]
  7. ↑ Yiddish "Advice", cf. Christoph Gutknecht: Sprachgeschichte (n) in: juedische-allgemeine.de [5] , September 27, 2012.
  8. ↑ cf. GECD # 9133, with Ella Puserowski
  9. ↑ cf. GECD # 13, with Anna Müller-Lincke
  10. ↑ ad Revue “Roland v. Berlin ”, cf. GECD # 12 054, with Anna Müller-Lincke
personal data
SURNAME Haskel, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, head director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Seelow
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1923
Place of death Berlin