Nikolai Kobelkoff
Nikolai Kobelkoff ( Russian: Николай Васильевич Кобельков , transcribed Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Kobelkow ; born July 22, 1851 in Troitsk , then Orenburg Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 19, 1933 in Vienna ) was a Russian showman .
Kobelkoff was born into a farming family as the fourteenth child. He was severely deformed at birth, all limbs except for short stumps were missing. Despite his disability, he learned activities such as writing and drawing by jamming writing implements between his chin and the stump of his arm. From the 1870s Kobelkoff was on the move as an attraction due to his skills and handicap at curiosity shows and fairs and thus became known on many stages in Europe and America.
In 1876 he married Anna Wilfert in Budapest , with whom he had eleven children.
In 1898 he began to be interested in the possibilities of film, in 1900 the silent film "Kobelkoff" was made, which showed a short excerpt from his stage program. This was his only film recording; it is kept in the Filmarchiv Austria .
Having become wealthy through his demonstrations, Kobelkoff set up his own ride, the Toboggan , in the Vienna Prater in 1913 and became a celebrity of the Prater and Viennese society. The ride was owned by Kobelkoff's family until the 1970s.
Kobelkoff died in January 1933 in his house in Vienna, some of his show utensils are now on display in the Vienna Museum of Entertainment Art (MUK). Kobelkoff's honorary grave is located in the Protestant cemetery in Simmering .
literature
- Kobelkoff, Nikolaus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 5 f. (Direct links on p. 5 , p. 6 ).
Web links
- Nikolai Kobelkoff at www.praterdynastien.at, accessed on June 16, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fairground Heritage ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Kobellkoff on YouTube
- ↑ Silent film archive ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Devil's Slide , in: Die Zeit, December 14, 2006.
- ^ Report from Vienna international ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wiener Zeitung on the Museum of Entertainment Art ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Zentralfriedhof/Tor4_ev/html_ehrengraeber/gr02_469_kobelkoff.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kobelkoff, Nikolai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kobelkoff, Nicolai; Kobelkow, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch; Кобельков, Николай Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian showman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troitsk , then Orenburg governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Vienna |