Paul Nicholas

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Paul Nikolaus , bourgeois Paul Nikolaus Steiner , (born March 30, 1894 in Mannheim , † March 31, 1933 in Zurich ) was a German poet and playwright, cabaret artist and master of the stage.

Life

Paul Nikolaus Steiner was born in Mannheim in 1894, attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium there and then studied business administration. He has appeared as Paul Nicholas in 1921 at Trude Hesterberg in the savage stage on, then in the gondola , where he became the left-liberal sharp-tongued master of ceremonies. Paul Morgan and Kurt Robitschek brought him to the cabaret of comedians , or Kadeko for short, in 1925 .

In 1927 he confirmed the German guest performance of the AgitProp troupe Blue Blouse from Moscow in the Piscator stage on Nollendorfplatz . Friedrich Hollaender engaged him in 1930 at his cabaret theater Tingeltangel . In 1932, together with Roda-Roda and Erich Kästner, he took part in readings for the flying cabaret Die Wespen des Leon Hirsch . In the theater he gave lecture evenings with Hans Reimann and Lina Carstens .

1933 from the Nazis to Zurich in Switzerland fled, he took in Lucerne on March 31 life.

He has published several volumes with poems and a repertoire of lectures. He worked on three feature films in various functions and reviewed several gramophone records at Lindström's Odeon.

Works

Jewish miniatures, 1924., illustrated by Paul Simmel
  • Paul Nikolaus: Jewish miniatures: purring u. Rascals. Paul Steegemann , Hanover 1924.
  • Paul Nikolaus: dancers. Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1919.
  • Paul Nikolaus, Egon Jacobsohn: The blue Mauritius. Comedy in 3 acts. Oesterheld, Berlin 1931.
  • Paul Nikolaus (Ed.): The laughing coffin. Stories from the estate of Peter Natron. Medusen-Verlag, Munich 1919.
  • Paul Nikolaus: Disaster! Verses of devotion. Dresdner Verlag from 1917, Dresden 1919. (The newest poem, no. 29)
  • Paul Nikolaus Steiner: dancers. Illustrated by Ernest Julian Stern. Delphin-Verlag, 1919
  • Paul Nikolaus: A Conference on Max Hansen. In: The stage. Vol. 5, H. 165, Jan. 5, 1925, p. 15.
  • Michael Robinson (Ed.): An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005. Vol. 2: The Plays. Modern Humanities Research Assn, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-947623-82-1 , pp. 1058 f.
  • Paul Nikolaus: Mannheim Theater. Strindberg's “Nach Damaskus” , Die neue Schaubühne (Dresden) (1920) 27-28 [7 November 1919. A version of all three parts performed as a passion play in a single evening, Dir. Fritz Wendhausen; The Unknown: Max Grünberg; Lady: Lore Busch. 7 performances]
  • Paul Nikolaus: Mannheim Theater. Strindberg's “To Damascus”. In: Hans Peter Bayerdörfer (Hrsg.): Strindberg on the German stage. Pp. 301-303.

Re-releases

  • Paul Nikolaus: In Claire's hands. from: disaster! Verses of devotion. Dresdner Verlag from 1917, Dresden 1919. (online)
  • Paul Nikolaus: The gentle happiness. Novelette, from: The Flaming Venus. Erotic novels. selected by Reinhold Eichacker. Universal Verlag, Munich 1919. (online)
  • Paul Nikolaus: The Original Zille Girls Song. In: Volker Kühn (Ed.): Kleinkunststücke. Vol. 2: Oops we're shaking. Cabaret of a certain republic 1918-1933. Quadriga, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-88679-162-9 , p. 223. (PDF; 27 kB)
  • Paul Nikolaus Steiner: Jewish miniatures. Purring and swaying. With 11 drawings by Paul Simmel. Unchanged new edition, Wellhöfer Verlag , Mannheim 2016, ISBN 9783954281916

Audio documents

  • Something about music (Text: Nikolaus) Odeon O-2349 (Be 6307-2) 11.27
  • Berlin traffic rules (Text: Nikolaus) Odeon O-2349 (Be 6308) 11.27
  • Cabaret Revue I and II (Conference: Nikolaus) Odeon O-11 634 (Be 9860/9861) 03.32
  • Sound film stars I and II (Conference: Nikolaus) Odeon O-11 651 (Be 9893/9894) 05.32
  • Odeon Parade I and II (Conference: Nikolaus) Odeon O-11 756 (Be 10 109/10 110) 12.32

Feature films

  • Circumstantial evidence. Feature film 1928, directed by Georg Jacoby [Actor: Public Prosecutor]
  • The cabinet of Dr. Larifari. Feature film 1930, directed by Robert Wohlmuth [Lyrics: with Max Hansen, Armin Robinson, Robert Gilbert]
  • Susanne makes order. Feature film 1930, directed by Eugen Thiele [Script: with Eugen Thiele, Wolfgang Wilhelm]

literature

  • Marie-Theres Arnbom : Have you ever been in love with me? Film stars, operetta favorites and cabaret greats between Vienna and Berlin. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, p. 214.
  • Helga Bemmann: Berlin muse children memoir. A cheerful chronicle from 1900 - 1930. Verlag Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1981.
  • Oliver Bendel: The revolutionary workers' theater of the Weimar period. Theater as an instrument of communist propaganda. Master's thesis in German literature. Konstanz 1996. (p. 42 on Piscator's stage in the Theater am Nollendorffplatz 1927); (P. 47 on the German tour of the “Blue Blouses”) ( online at: kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de )
  • Volker Kühn: Everything can turn the day after tomorrow - Tingel with Tangel. Hollaenders Tingeltangel-Theater. In: Viktor Rotthaler: Friedrich Hollaender. Book accompanying the CD edition BCD 16 009 HK. Bear Family Records, 1996, pp. 35-43.
  • Alan Lareau: Tingel-Tangel. In search of Friedrich Hollaender's cabaret. In: Nils Grosch (Hrsg.): Aspects of modern music theater in the Weimar Republic. Pp. 288-334.
  • Berthold Leimbach (ed.): Sound documents of cabaret. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Cabaret in the Theater des Westens. From Wilder Bühne, Tingel-Tangel and Tütü. In: Renée Meyer-Brede (Ed.): 100 Years of Theater des Westens, 1896–1996. Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-549-05598-6 .
  • Juliane Michael: Vulnerable gods made of shellac. Eastern European Jews in the entertainment culture of Weimar Berlin. In: the Jewish. April 26, 2012 (online)
  • Brendan Nash (Ed.): Cabaret Berlin. Exploring the entertainment of the Weimar era. (on-line)
  • Otto Schneidereit: Berlin how it cries and laughs. Walks through Berlin's operetta history. Verlag Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1968, DNB 575459948 .
  • Laureen Podetz: Paul Nikolaus Steiner (1894–1933) - writer, cabaret artist and emcee . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim - portraits from two decades , Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 197–208.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Schilde: Victims of the Nazi terror 1933 in Berlin. Biographical sketches . In: Kopke, Christoph; Treß, Werner (ed.), The day of Potsdam. March 21, 1933 and the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship . Ed. from the Moses Mendelssohn Center in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies (= European-Jewish Studies. Articles, Volume 8). Berlin 2013 - De Gruyter Verlag, p. 200f.
  2. ↑ Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret . Self-published, Göttingen 1991
  3. ↑ Schneidereit, pp. 193, 240.
  4. ↑ Bemmann pp. 95-106.
  5. ↑ Volker Kühn:  Schnog, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 340 f. ( Digitized version ). (“As a cabaret artist Schnog belonged to Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), Paul Nikolaus (1894–1893), Paul Morgan (1886–1938), Werner Finck (1902–78), Willi Schaeffers (1884–1962) and Hellmuth Krüger the generation of educated, literarily active and the zeitgeist committed emcees who helped shape Berlin's reputation as a metropolis and theater city before 1933. ”)
  6. ↑ Bemmann pp. 131–146, and Nash, Cabaret Berlin: “Never known to shy away from political satire and parody, the Kadeko played host to some of the sharpest and wittiest conferenciers of the day, most regularly Paul Nikolaus.” [1]
  7. ↑ Bendel 1996 [2]  ( 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. "The German tour of the" Blauen Blouse "in autumn 1927 was the first direct contact between the German and the Soviet revolutionary workers' theater. The troupe also made guest appearances on the" first Piscator stage "... The tour solved ... the founding of numerous agitprop troops In addition to the troops of the Communist Youth Association, Die Nieter in Hamburg , Die Roten Raketen in Berlin , numerous blue blouses , red blouses , etc. "@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de  
  8. ↑ Bemmann pp. 147–156, kunstblog, entry Tuesday, November 15, 2011 [3] and Tingel-Tangel-Theater
  9. ↑ Bemmann p. 127.
  10. ↑ on the illustrator EJ Stern cf. Michael: Vulnerable gods. (online)  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.juedische.at  
  11. ↑ Stefan Frey:  Max Hansen in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
personal data
SURNAME Nicholas, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steiner, Paul Nikolaus (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, playwright, cabaret artist and emcee
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1933
Place of death Zurich