Marcell Salzer

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Marcell Salzer, 1907.

Marcell Salzer , actually Moritz Salzmann (born March 27, 1873 in Sankt Johann an der March , † March 17, 1930 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German lecturer.

Life

Salzer came to Vienna as a teenager and completed a commercial apprenticeship there. After graduating, he also worked in this profession for some time. During this time he began to perform - mostly with family and friends.

When Salzer found out in 1901 that the writer Ernst von Wolhaben wanted to found a cabaret in Berlin , he resigned from his position and joined it. Salzer performed there regularly until Wolzzen's cabaret Überbrettl closed at the end of 1902. The Mecklenburg-Strelitz Grand Duke appointed him the holder of the Order for Art and Science . In 1904 he was on the stage in the Berlin Varieté Wintergarten  ; in Vienna he appeared in the Apollo Theater .

Salzer made the presentation of literary texts an independent artistic profession in the position between the drama stage and cabaret.

Salzer converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith. He was married in Berlin and had four children. He died ten days before his 57th birthday in Berlin and found his final resting place there. An obituary appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt .

reception

Salzer's trademark was his strikingly pointed manner of speaking and his inimitable way of reading texts in a wide variety of German dialects. He was able to achieve great success with his programs “Willis Career” and “Experiences of a Bohemian Tourist Guide”.

Salzer is mentioned several times in Karl Kraus ' world war drama The Last Days of Mankind :

"1. Schieber: You, yesterday I was with the artist Marcel Salzer in the Apollo. I tell you, gentlemen, you really shouldn't miss this. 2nd slider: Soo good? 1st slider: Yes! You, he's reading you a poem. So, before the battle of Tannenberg comes General Hindenburg driving the Russians into the Masurian swamps - you read the gripping description in the press at the time - 2nd slider: I still remember the title: 'The Russian troops are surrounded by the German army and throwing it into the Masurian swamps. «1. Schieber: Yes, that happens exactly, but more funny, and there he makes gluck-gluck and gluck-gluck, how they all suffocate the soldiers. I'll tell you, with that astonished face, what he's doing, Salzer, the little eyes - it's worth the money. "

His five-volume text collection The Funny Salzer Book , which not only collected works from the German classics, but also those by Wilhelm Busch , Ludwig Thoma , Rideamus and Roda Roda , achieved the highest editions in Germany.

Works (selection)

  • The funny Salzer book. Cheerful reading and lecture pieces. 5 volumes. Publisher: Anton J. Benjamin, Hamburg 1911–1929.

Movie

Records (selection)

  • Gramophone 41 291 (mx. 3168 from): The music is coming (Text: Detlev von Liliencron )
  • Gramophone 41 292 (mx. 3169 g): Legend of St. Sebastian
  • Gramophone 041000 (mx. 210 y): Willi as high school graduate, from Rideamus : Willi's career
  • Gramophone 041001 (mx. 211 y): Willis '16th birthday, from Rideamus: Willis' career
  • Odeon 50 092 (mx. XB 1377): The encounter of the family in the theater (Text: Rideamus)
  • Odeon 50 087 (mx. XB 1378): High school graduation stroll (Text: Rideamus)
  • Odeon 50 088 (mx. XB 1383): The Franzer (Text: Henry F. Urban )
  • Odeon 50 080 (mx. XB 1396): The boot jack (Text: Peter Rosegger )

Illustrations

  • Edmund Edel  : Poster for a “Funny Evening” with Marcell Salzer.
  • Advertisement of the casino hall, Friedrichstr. 22 of May 2, 1911 (© Karlheinz Everts) for an evening of recitation with Salzer.
  • Title page of “The Funny Salzer Book” with the picture of Salzer.

literature

  • Heinz Büttner, Klaus Krüger, Rainer E. Lotz and Christian Zwarg (eds.): German National Discography: Volume 6. Discography of German Cabaret. Bonn: Birgit Lotz, 2006. ISBN 978-3-9805808-7-8 .
  • Georg Herlitz , Bruno Kirschner (ed.): Jüdisches Lexikon. An encyclopedic manual of Jewish knowledge in four volumes. Volume 4, 2: S - Z. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1930 (2nd edition. Jüdischer Verlag bei Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-633-54033-4 ).
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1992. Number no. Fig., Unpag.
  • Rainer E. Lotz , Axel Weggen: Discography of the Judaica recordings (= German National Discography, Series 6, Vol. 1), Bonn: Birgit Lotz, 2006.
  • Theo Stengel , Herbert Gerigk : Lexicon of Jews in Music . With a title index of Jewish works (= publications of the institute of the NSDAP for research on the Jewish question. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 279909-1 ). Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. Based on official, party official checked documents. Hahnefeld, Berlin 1940.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography with more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries. A reference work for the Jewish people and their friends. Volume 5: Pereira - stone house. “Orient” printing works, among others, Czernowitz 1931 (reprint. Kraus-Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-02108-3 ).
  • Christian Zwarg: ODEON Matrix Numbers - B / xB / xxB / xxxB (Berlin), PDF , pp. 51/52 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1992
  2. ^ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1992, unfortunately without receipt.
  3. ↑ di: Dr. Fritz Oliven (Rideamus), Willis career. Scenes from family life. M. Ill. V. Edmund Edel. Bln. (around 1910). Grand octave, 60 p. (= Bunte Brettl- und Theater-Bibl., 7).
  4. ↑ label from ODEON plate X 51 024 reproduced. at ebay.at (accessed 02/27/19)
  5. ↑ label from ODEON plate X 51 023 reproduced. at ebay.at (accessed 02/27/19)
  6. ^ Henry F. Urban: The Franzer. Recitation Marcell Salzer, Berlin. Odeon Record No. 25937, up. July 1906, available on youtube.com  ; "The Franzer" was the popular nickname of the Kaiser-Franz-Garde-Grenadier-Regiment No. 2 , which was involved in the pursuit of the French troops and the siege of Paris in 1870/71.
  7. ↑ Der Stiefelknecht (P. Rosegger) Recitation Marcell Salzer, Berlin. Odeon Record No. 25921. July 1906, to be heard on youtube.com
personal data
SURNAME Salzer, Marcell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzmann, Moritz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Johann an der March
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1930
Place of death Berlin