Philipp Manning

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Philipp Manning

Philipp Gustav Valère Manning (born November 23, 1869 in London , Great Britain ; † April 9, 1951 in Tiengen ) was a British-German actor and director .

Life

Manning's father was Wolfgang Gustav Mannheimer from Königsberg in East Prussia, an English cotton broker, and his mother, the daughter of a Hessian cabinet maker who had settled in Paris. Philipp Manning became an English citizen in 1876. After the mother's early death, his father sent the sons to a grammar school in Wiesbaden . The father had previously had the name Anglicized in Manning. After graduating from high school, he studied in Berlin and later at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg , until he was finally awarded a “Dr. phil. "PhD. Manning's younger brother is Gustav Manning (Gustav Rudolph Leo Mannheimer), co-founder of the German Football Association in 1900 and later a US football official.

Then he went to the stage of the Strasbourg City Theater and took on small roles as a beginner, summer engagements at Schmieren and garden theaters. In 1896 Josef Kainz played Romeo in Erfurt, Manning played next to him brother Lorenzo. He achieved his first great success in Dresden, where he played Werhahn in the second German performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz and, after the less successful Berlin performance, helped the piece to triumph over many stages on which he played Werhahn as a guest . After that, his path led across the stages in Bremen and Hamburg to the royal German state theater, which under Angelo Neumann was considered one of the best German theaters. Manning made guest appearances as Consul Bernick in Henrik Ibsen's The Supports of Society and as Richard III. and was committed to three years. Moving to Prague with his wife, the coloratura singer Mia Nebraska , Manning experienced the most successful period of his life there between 1903 and 1910. He played roles in Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Kleist and Grillparzer, whom he admired, as well as those of the more recent poets, especially Ibsen and Gerhart Hauptmann.

During this time, his close friendship with Josef Kainz , who after a performance of Kleist's Der Prinz von Homburg in 1908, embraced his friend Manning, eleven years his junior, and exclaimed: “Here, very much! That's an artist ”! Two years later Manning gave the funeral oration for Kainz on behalf of his Prague colleagues in Vienna. After Angelo Neumann's death, Manning left Prague and soon afterwards, on Max Reinhardt's recommendation, was hired as the first director and actor to the Münchener Kammerspiele, where he staged his plays in collaboration with Frank Wedekind.

The First World War broke out and turbulent times began for the English actor, who only received German naturalization in 1915. After the war, Manning was elected artistic director of the New State Theater in Stralsund for three years , and then the beginning triumph of silent film and, since 1929, that of sound film opened up new possibilities.

In addition to his work as an actor, Manning became a consultant and spokesman for the production of English versions of German sound films. At the same time, his external life expanded, and work on film took him to Rome, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Stockholm and London. Between working in front of the camera, Manning played at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and from 1933 at the State Theater under Gustaf Gründgens , until work on a film took him from Berlin to Tiengen with his wife. Manning died in Tiengen in April 1951 and was buried there in the cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. United Kingdom, Naturalization Certificates and Statements, 1870–1912
personal data
SURNAME Manning, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manning, Philipp Gustav Valère (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German actor and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1951
Place of death Tiengen