Josef Ludl (actor)

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Josef Ludl in 1895

Josef "Pepi" Ludl (born January 31, 1868 in Neu-Erlaa ; † January 6, 1917 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor and operetta singer with a bass voice . He was one of those artists who helped the operettas by Franz Lehár , Leo Fall and Oscar Strauss to victory and serial performances.

Live and act

The son of an inn owner began his stage career at the age of 20 in Döbling . From 1899 he was a permanent member of the ensemble and first comedian at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz :

Already at the turn of the century he was the most popular actor in Munich and also the busiest. Because with every new operetta the audience wanted to see the comedian in a new role. In the 17 years of his work here he has been on stage around 5000 times ... His real heyday began in 1906 with the arrival of the 'Merry Widow', in which he played the role of Njegus over 300 times.

Pepi Ludl founded the film production company Iris Film Munich together with Ludwig Heller . In the German Early Cinema Database of the University of Cologne , six silent film productions between 1911 and 1916 are recorded. In the 5-minute production Die Lustigen Vagabunden (director: Elias Möllendorf) from 1913, Karl Valentin played a gendarme. In the same year production Pepi mag no more , for which Ludl wrote the script and directed the script together with Heller, Ludl himself played a stout soldier who had difficulties in the military, as a young officer boy of a lieutenant colonel and as a lover. In the film he himself desires the young maid to no avail, while the cook chases after him. After the film was initially banned by the police in Berlin, the two producers shortened the film in particular to include these scenes, which were then only read in the program text. In the film, Pepi Ludl decides to commit suicide, but instead of arsenic he is given a laxative , which means that the film ends with a scene in the lavatory to amuse the audience . The shortened version (700 of 800 m of film material) was banned from young people and premiered at the beginning of 1914 in the “Kammerlichtspiele”, which subsequently passed the film on. Up to 1917, four more films in which Ludl was seen are listed in the German Early Cinema Database.

In 1916 Ludl went to the Berlin Metropoltheater , which offered him five times his Munich fee. But the artist didn't feel at home there "and longed for what he had lost". Living only a few months in Berlin, Ludl put an end to his life.

Role repertoire (selection)

Filmography

  • 1913 Pepi doesn't like anymore (Iris Film Munich; script and direction with Ludwig Heller)
  • 1916: Pepi as guardian of virtue (Munich art film Ostermayr)
  • 1916: Everything in vain (Münchner Lichtspielkunst; with Wilhelm Diegelmann and Marga Köhler )
  • 1917: Pepi in the Harem (Munich art film Ostermayr)
  • 1917: Uncle Tobias as guardian of virtue (with Karl Günther, Georg Burghardt and Thea Steinbrecher )

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Ludl. In: Max Auer : Karl Valentin . All works in eight volumes. Volume 7, Piper Verlag, 1996, p. 302, footnote 31.29.
  2. ^ Bavarian State Theater on Gärtnerplatz 1965, p. 104
  3. ↑ Iris Film Munich. The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  4. ^ Pepi Ludl in the film. Munich Latest News , January 6, 1914.
  5. ↑ News from the movie theaters. Munich Latest News, January 13, 1914.
  6. ↑ ibid., P. 104
  7. ^ Bavarian State Theater on Gärtnerplatz (Ed.): 100 Years of Theater on Gärtnerplatz Munich. Munich 1965, pp. 104-105.
  8. ↑ Pepi doesn't like anymore (1913). The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  9. ↑ Pepi as guardian of virtue (1916). The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  10. ^ All in vain (1916). The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  11. ^ Pepi im Harem (1917) The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  12. ^ Uncle Tobias as guardian of virtue (1917). The German Early Cinema Database, University of Cologne
  13. ↑ Die Mädis vom Chantant at Discogs .
  14. ↑ Jaj Mamám at Discogs.
personal data
SURNAME Ludl, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludl, Pepi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and operetta singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH New Erlaa
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1917
Place of death Munich