Reinhold Köstlin

Reinhold Köstlin (born October 11, 1876 in Heilbronn , † June 1, 1967 in the Gschwender district Schlechtbach) was a German actor.

Life

Reinhold Köstlin was the youngest of the five children of the prison director Karl von Köstlin and his wife Anna, geb. Scholl, and a cousin of the actor Theodor Köstlin , alias Theodor Brandt . He passed the Abitur at Heilbronn's Karlsgymnasium and then began an apprenticeship as a businessman at the request of his parents, but after a few months he was able to persuade them to allow him to pursue his original career aspiration, an actor. In 1896 he had an engagement in Frankfurt an der Oder , later he worked in Friedrichroda and Lübeck . Then he became a court actor in Altenburg . In 1899, at the age of 23, he received an engagement at the Schillertheater in Berlin , to whose ensemble he was a recurring player for several decades, as well as to that of the State Theater in Berlin later. Numerous premiere parties with more prominent colleagues took place in his apartment at Knesebeckstrasse 11. He made film appearances in three silent films that were produced shortly after the First World War : Three Dances of Mary Wilford , Brigantenliebe and Yoshiwara , the love city of the Japanese . Charley's aunt was one of the plays in which he starred . Kostlin often appeared in women's clothes. At the age of over 40 he married Charlotte Carnap, a former barmaid.

In the 1920s he became Jürgen Fehling's assistant . In particular, pieces by Ernst Barlach and Richard Billinger were brought to the stage. While Barlach was soon banned from working as a sculptor during the Third Reich , Billinger's pieces, which seemed to conform to the blood and soil ideology, were more acceptable to the regime. But in 1935 Billinger was caught up in a lawsuit because of his homosexuality . Fehling, who at that time already had a visa for the USA, could no longer use it for emigration and therefore only moved his place of work to Berlin. Köstlin was "dismissed" in the same year, as he later put it himself, possibly because of an aversion Hermann Görings , whose wife Emmy Sonnemann was first married to Karl Köstlin, the son of Theodor Köstlin. Reinhold Köstlin had the last premiere with Gustaf Gründgens and Das Glas Wasser by Eugène Scribe .

After retiring from the stage in 1935, Köstlin bought an old sawmill in Schlechtbach near Schwäbisch Gmünd , where he spent the last decades of his life. A few years later, his friend Albert Florath also moved to Schlechtbach. Roderich Arndt became the third member of the Schlechtbach actor enclave.

In 1964 Reinhold Köstlin was appointed state actor by Boleslav Barlog , on the occasion of his 85th birthday the Stuttgarter Zeitung portrayed him , in 1964 the Heilbronner Voice portrayed him .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 529, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Tilman Krause: Reinhold Köstlin (1876–1967): Actor with body and soul . In: Heilbronner Köpfe VI . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2011, ISBN 978-3-940646-08-8 , pp. 33–54

Web links

• Vita Reinhold Köstlin in the House of History Heilbronn

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tilman Krause, actor with body and soul. Reinhold Köstlin (1876–1967) , in: Christhard Schrenk (ed.), Heilbronner Köpf VI , Heilbronn 2011, ISBN 978-3-940646-08-8 , pp. 33–54, here p. 35
2. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 37 f.
3. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 42
4. ↑ Cast Three Dances of Mary Wilford ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 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. 
5. ↑ Cast Brigantenliebe ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 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. 
6. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 40
7. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 47
8. ↑ Krause 2011, pp. 42 and 51
9. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 51
10. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 51
11. ↑ Short biography
12. ↑ Krause 2011, p. 51