Ludwig Schuch

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Ludwig Schuch (born October 23, 1885 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 26, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German variety director .

Live and act

After training as a precision mechanic, he turned to film technology at an early stage and made himself available to the emerging film industry. At the age of twenty-one he became the technical director of the Allgemeine Kinematographische Gesellschaft, which later became the UFA . As such, he was responsible for the technical equipment of the first large film theaters in Berlin. During the First World War he was used as an aviator. In 1920 he became co-founder and managing director of the Scala cosmopolitan variety show alongside Jules Marx . After disputes, however, it was replaced by Scala-Palast-GmbH in May 1927. In 1928 he was employed by the Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft to complete the redesign of the winter garden variety theater into what was then the largest and most modern theater in Europe (with almost 3,000 seats) and to help shape the reopening. At the same time, he joined Wilhelm Schmidt in the direction of the variety theater and took over the sole management after his death. Building on the tradition of Berlin's oldest vaudeville stage, Schuch knew how to secure its name for the winter garden as a leading, classic vaudeville theater by means of new, lively ideas and plans. He maintained a trusting relationship with his artists, which earned him the name "father of the artists". From 1931 he also ran the Gloria Palast in Leipzig.

A portrait of Ludwig Schuch as well as the maxim of his personal will and action have been published in the commemorative publication “50 Years of the Winter Garden 1888-1938”: “To do justice to everyone, to seek top performances in the arts from all over the world and to show them in concentrated form I strive to increase operations. - Success proves me right! " The handwritten signature “L. Schuch ”in facsimile printing concludes his rule of life.

family

He was married to Else Müller (* December 15, 1888, † November 24, 1939). The marriage resulted in two daughters. The couple's final resting place is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . Else Müller had a son, Karl Erich Mendel, née. June 28, 1915 in Berlin, from his first marriage to Karl Mendel. His sister Edith is one of the daughters mentioned. Only Eva Schuch was the biological daughter of Else Müller and Ludwig Schuch.

literature

  • Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): 40 years of the winter garden. Festschrift for the reopening after the new building was completed, Berlin 1928 (with a contribution from Ludwig Schuch: Again under the starry sky, p. 14)
  • Erich Leif: Festschrift 50 years of the winter garden 1888–1938, Berlin 1938, 2nd edition, Hildesheim 1994
  • Wilhelm Ritter: 50 years of the Berlin Wintergarten - from "Promenaden-Park" to world variety. In: Das Theater, H. 4 (1938), pp. 85–108 (with portrait)
  • WK: Director Ludwig Schuch †. In: Die Deutsche Artistik, No. 36 (September 3, 1939), pp. 3–4 (with portrait)
  • Wolfgang Jansen: The Varieté. The glamorous story of an entertaining art, Berlin 1990
  • Jens Schnauber: The Aryanization of Scala and Plaza, Berlin 2002, pp. 34/35, 39 and 131
  • Ludwig Schuch. In: Peter Hahn: Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, Badenweiler 2003, pp. 210–213

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of the winter garden. Festschrift - Berlin 1938 - November magazine . Responsible for content and design: Erich Leif. Publisher: Wintergarten GmbH. Printing: Märkische Druckanstalt W. Hentschel KG, Berlin; DNB 578385872 , p. 108
personal data
SURNAME Schuch, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German variety director
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1939
Place of death Berlin