Liesl Karlstadt

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Liesl Karlstadt, 1935

Liesl Karlstadt (actually Elisabeth Wellano ; born December 12, 1892 in Munich ; † July 27, 1960 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German soubrette , actress and cabaret artist . Together with Karl Valentin, she formed one of the most famous German comedian duos of the 20th century.

Life

Beginnings

Liesl Karlstadt during the shooting of the film There is a Hofbräuhaus in Munich , 1951

Elisabeth Wellano was born in Schwabing as the fifth of nine children of an Italian-born master baker . She was a saleswoman in the newly founded department store of Hermann Tietz ( Hertie ). But that did not satisfy the music-gifted girl, who mastered several musical instruments. She was drawn to the stage. At the age of 17 she came to the Munich folk singers and from there to the Volksbühne and cabaret .

Cooperation with Karl Valentin

In 1911 she met Karl Valentin, for whom she played the supporting act as soubrette with her trio of women at his appearance at the “Frankfurter Hof”. Valentin sensed the singer's comic talent in the kitsch of the song lyrics, took a liking to the young artist as a man and made her his stage partner. Together with Karl Valentin, she chose her stage name “Liesl Karlstadt” based on the then very famous Munich vocal humorist Karl Maxstadt . Maxstadt was Valentin's idol and inspired him to some of his scenes and couplets .

In the 25 years of their collaboration, almost 400 skits and comedies have been created. It often fell to her the part of unraveling a bizarre, chaotic situation using common sense and feminine intuition. The scene around the bookbinder Wanninger even entered colloquial language as a catchphrase for multiple connections when telephoning.

Liesl Karlstadt was not only a partner, but also an intellectual focal point for dialogue and skits, organized, soufflé and helped the hypochondriac assessed eccentric Valentin and mentally to make ends meet. In appearances in the Berlin cabaret of the comedians , both celebrated triumphs during the times of the Weimar Republic . During the time of National Socialism it became quieter around them.

The comedian couple's cinematic oeuvre began with the film Mysteries of a Hairdressing Salon (shot by Erich Engel and Bertolt Brecht ). From a cinematic point of view, they achieved the best sequences in the opera The Bartered Bride (1932) under director Max Ophüls .

Grave in the Bogenhausen cemetery
Liesl-Karlstadt-Brunnen on the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, 2004

When Karl Valentin put all of his fortune into a dubious museum project ( Panoptikum ) in 1934 and went bankrupt , and then came up with Annemarie Fischer as a new partner, she fell into a deep crisis. She was no longer able to play the role of the always cheerful and cheerful. She saw no way out and tried to take her own life on April 6, 1935. The jump into the Isar was followed by a long hospital stay. It became clear that not only the many role changes, but above all the too close bond with her stage partner, the married family man Karl Valentin, had drawn all of her energy too much.

In order to heal her emotional wounds, Liesl Karlstadt spent two years from 1941 with a mountain hunter unit on the Ehrwalder Alm, where she looked after the mules used as pack animals - initially in a fantasy uniform under the name ' Gefreiter Gustl'. Since her but a mockery of the Wehrmacht could have been interpreted, it made the sympathetic company commander Willi grinding shortly after officially to corporal , although these scams continue was not free from the risk of detection.

In January 1948 she performed again together with Karl Valentin in the Munich cabaret “The Colorful Cube”. After Karl Valentin's death (1948), Liesl Karlstadt was also engaged in serious roles in the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Residenztheater .

Liesl Karlstadt died on July 27, 1960 at the age of 67 of a cerebral haemorrhage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where she was on vacation with her sister. She was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (grave wall left No. 5).

On the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, fountains commemorate Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt. The Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum is also dedicated to the two comedians.

A part of Karlstadt's estate, consisting of letters, manuscripts, photos and biographical documents, lies with the Monacensia . Further estate items and personal items can be found in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum .

More roles

She also acted in entertainment films. The Bavarian Broadcasting Service offered its popularity first from 1948 with the radio series Brumml G'schichten and later with the radio series Family Brandl a stage.

In 1956 she shot the first television commercial with Beppo Brem for the detergent Persil , which ARD broadcast on November 3, 1956.

Filmography

Cinema (selection)

Television (selection)

  • 1959: The comedy nobility : Late discovery (one-act play, with Michl Lang)
  • 1959: The comedy nobility: The baptism meal (one act, with Ludwig Schmid-Wildy)

Documentary film

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1949–1953: Rudolf Stürzer , Kurt Wilhelm , Margot Teichmann: Brumml-G'schichten (28 episodes) - Director: Kurt Wilhelm ( Radio Munich / BR )
  • 1954: Rolf Olsen : Kurt Wilhelm: Kathi und das Geisterhaus - A wild incident - Director: Kurt Wilhelm (Mundarthörspiel - BR )
  • 1955: Max Neal , Max Ferner , Olf Fischer : Der Komödienstadel - Max Neal: Die Hosenknöpf - Max Neal, Max Ferner: Glück im Starenhaus - Olf Fischer: Der Zigeunersimmerl (Josefa Doppelwieser) - Director: Olf Fischer (BR)
  • 1955–1960: Ernestine Koch : Family Brandl (oral audio play series - BR )
  • 1959: Alois Hönle: Drent in der Au - Director: Olf Fischer (Bavarian oral arthore play - BR)

reception

The opera Stillhang by the composer Christian Spitzenstaetter addresses Karlstadt's time as 'Gefreiter Gustl' with the mountain troops . It premiered at the end of December 2018 at the Erl Festival Hall in Tyrol .

literature

Web links

Commons : Liesl Karlstadt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Gurschler: Liesl Karlstadt. In: Susanne Gurschler. ECHO (Austria), June 3, 2012, accessed March 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ Liesl Karlstadt died in the Schwäbische Zeitung on July 28, 1960, p. 5
  3. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Liesl Karlstadt
  4. ↑ billiongraves.de: Liesl-Karlstadt
  5. ↑ Holdings: Karlstadt, Liesl (actually Elisabeth Wellano). In: www.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de. Munich City Library, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ https://www.br.de/unternehmen/inhalt/70-jahre-br/familie-brandl-102.html BR page for the Brandl family broadcast with an audio sample
  7. ↑ Video of the commercial
  8. ^ Premiere in the tavern . focus.de. October 31, 2006. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  9. ^ Michael Ernst: Liesl Karlstadts most beautiful time. In: www.faz.net. December 31, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Karlstadt, Liesl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellano, Elisabeth (real name); Karlstadt, Lisl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soubrette, actress and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1960
Place of death Garmisch , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany