Paul Morgan (actor)

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Paul Morgan in one of his first stage photos (Vienna, 1909)
Self-Portrait (1929)

Paul Morgan (born October 1, 1886 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † December 10, 1938 in Buchenwald concentration camp ; born Georg Paul Morgenstern ) was an Austrian actor , comedian and librettist .

Life

Paul Morgan, real name Georg Paul Morgenstern , was the eldest son of the lawyer Gustav Morgenstern and the Clementine Morgenstern. He took acting lessons and attended the Imperial and Royal Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and made his debut in August 1908 at the Theater in der Josefstadt . He played at the Jaro stages and various provincial theaters in Austria-Hungary and Germany. In 1910 he first appeared in a film as an extra. In 1917 he married the drama student Josephine Lederer (1898–1986).

In 1917 he got an engagement at the Berlin Lessing Theater . In the 1920s he made a name for himself as an emcee in the theater of Rudolf Nelson and in the revues of Herman Haller and Erik Charell . He also appeared in the cabaret megalomania and in the cabaret Die Rakete . Together with Kurt Robitschek and Max Hansen , he founded the cabaret of comedians in Berlin at the end of 1924 , in which great comedians and cabaret artists such as Werner Finck , Wilhelm Bendow and Heinz Erhardt performed. With Max Hansen and Wilhelm Bendow he also recorded several records in the late 1920s.

Between 1919 and 1933 Paul Morgan starred in over 50 films. In the fall of 1930 he stayed in Hollywood , where he took part in German versions of American films. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he emigrated to Austria via Switzerland in May 1933. His film career was practically over, he only made a few theater appearances in Vienna and Czechoslovakia. Around 1935/36 he wrote the libretto for Ralph Benatzky's musical comedy Axel an der Himmelstür .

On March 22, 1938, a few days after the Anschluss of Austria , Morgan was arrested, allegedly because of a letter from Gustav Stresemann (†), and in May 1938 was deported to the Dachau concentration camp , from where he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in September. He died there in December 1938. Pneumonia was given as the official cause of death.

Filmography

Sound documents (selection)

  • In the bar. Humorous scene (Max Hansen and Paul Morgan) Max Hansen, the optimist, and Paul Morgan, the pessimist. Polydor 21 056 (mx. 1094 BH-IV)
  • Family life. Humorous scene (Max Hansen and Paul Morgan) Max Hansen, the optimist, and Paul Morgan, the pessimist. Polydor 21 056 (mx. 1095 BH-IV), apply. 1928
  • Paul Morgan buys plates I and II (Morgan) Parlophone B.12 103 (mx. 30 373, 30 374 L)
  • Paul Morgan tells jokes, I and II. Parlophone B.12 016 (mx. 36 408, 36 409 L).
  • Race track talks 1st and 2nd part, original lecture by Paul Morgan and Wilhelm Bendow, with orchestra. Parlophone P.2224-I and -II (mx. 8827, 8828)
  • The chastity commission . Song from the operetta "Casanova". Music by Johann Strauss , arranged by Ralph Benatzky , text by Rudolf Schanzer and Ernst Welisch. Paul Morgan with the choir and orchestra of the Großer Schauspielhaus, Berlin. Electrola EG 949 (mx. BLR 4426), taken on August 20, 1928
  • The Rothschild Song ( Willy Prager ). Paul Morgan with Hans Sommer, piano. Electrola EG 1214 (mx. BL 5101), taken February 27, 1929
  • New Years Eve celebration. Text by Paul Morgan. Paul Morgan with ensemble. Ultraphon A 235 (mx. 10 365), recorded in October 1929
  • New year morning. Text by Paul Morgan. Paul Morgan with ensemble. Ultraphon A 235 (mx. 10 366), recorded in October 1929
  • Newspaper parody. Text by Kurt Robitscheck. Paul Morgan. Ultraphon A 267 (mx. 10367/68), taken in October 1929

Republication on CD

  • Paul Morgan: A voice returns. Preiser Records 90155 (1999)

literature

  • Paul Morgan: Stepchild of the Graces. A jester's diary. Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1928.
  • Marie-Theres Arnbom : Have you ever been in love with me? Film stars, operetta favorites and cabaret greats in Vienna and Berlin. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-205-77550-3 .
  • Reinhard Hippen:  Morgan, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 102 ( digitized version ).
  • Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and its interpreters 1898–1945, Göttingen, self-published in 1991, unpaginated.
  • Ulrich Liebe: adored, persecuted, forgotten. Actor as a Nazi victim. Edition Quadriga, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88679-247-1 .
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 349 f., Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 .
  • Morgan, Paul , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , pp. 679-681

Web links

Commons : Paul Morgan (actor)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Liebe: Adored, persecuted, forgotten. Actor as a Nazi victim . 2nd Edition. Beltz, Weinheim (et al.) 1997, ISBN 3-88679-292-7 , p. 127.
  2. ↑ For example "People behind bars" (MGM, 1930, German version of "The Big House", with Heinrich George) [1] and "We switch to Hollywood" (MGM 1930, German version of "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" ) [2]
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 416.
  4. ↑ according to the film portal
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgenstern, Georg Paul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, comedian and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1938
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp