Richard Schmidt-Cabanis

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Richard Schmidt-Cabanis

Richard Schmidt-Cabanis (born June 22, 1838 in Berlin ; † November 12, 1903 there ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Richard Schmidt-Cabanis's father was a lawyer in Berlin, his mother came from the French Cabanis family made famous by Willibald Alexis . He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin and later the Gymnasium in Dessau . At the age of 16 he began an apprenticeship as a bookseller. In 1855 he joined a banking business in Berlin as a trainee.

After taking lessons from the actor Karl Gustav Berndal for a year and a half, he began his first engagement in Cologne in 1860 and worked on various stages until 1862. Then he worked again in the book trade and passed the bookseller exam in 1862. Then he went back to the stage and performed in Marienburg, Graudenz, Thorn, Rostock, Cologne, Strasbourg and at the Hoftheater zu Meiningen .

He fell ill with rheumatoid arthritis and gave up acting in 1865 because his right arm remained paralyzed. After the right-hander had laboriously learned to write with his left hand during a long period of sickness, he began in 1867 to produce articles for the Fliegende Blätter and for the Berliner Monday newspaper , headed by Adolf Glaßbrenner . In 1869 he became editor of the latter newspaper. After Glaßbrenner's death, he directed the paper for a further nine years. In addition, he made contributions to the " Ulk ", the humorous supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt , initially as a freelancer, from 1895 as editor-in-chief. For the "Ulk" he invented characters like the "privy councilor Jette", the "blind seer", "Fritz Inkflex" and "Freiherr Kurt von Schnoddrigtum", who regularly made their satirical appearances. He also developed a rich literary production and published short stories and humorous-satirical sketches, children's books and poems.

He was a Freemason and a member of the Lodge on the Triumphant Truth in Berlin.

Richard Schmidt-Cabanis died on November 12, 1903 at the age of 65 in Berlin from the consequences of an intestinal obstruction as a “physically worn out man, never mentally tired”, as the obituary of the Berliner Tageblatt put it . Up until the very end he had contributed to the "Ulk" and the last of them appeared only after his death. He was buried in Trinity Cemetery I in front of Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Out of tune chords (comic poems) 1868.
  • Hepp, Hepp! Or the Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Great confessional-social-democratic future opera in 3 current acts. Erbe, Spremberg 1872
  • Just for love. Antics in two acts. Michaelson, Berlin 1872.
  • All sorts of humors , 4 volumes, 1872. Digitized version of the 3rd edition.
  • What the mockingbird whistled. (Political-satirical Zeitgedichte) 1874. Digitized
  • The big upset Peter for children from 17 to 77 years. With illustrations by Julius Ehrentraut. Janke, Berlin 1876. ( digitized version )
  • Violets and horseradish. A bouquet of new humor. Denicke, Berlin 1876
  • Zoolyrian effusions. An album of two-, four- and multi-legged poems. With illustrations by Gustav Mützel. Denicke, Berlin 1876
  • To err is human. Comedy in one act. Michaelson, Berlin 1876
  • The little Nibelungen etiquette or: gender-regular instructions on how to behave as a Bayreuth patron. Denicke, Berlin 1876
  • When women smile. Humorous short stories and sketches for and about the more beautiful half of the human race. Denicke's Verl. Georg Reinke, Berlin 1876
  • Colorful nothing. Cheerful sketches and life memories. Hoffmann & Ohnstein, Leipzig 1879 ( digitized version )
  • Changing lights. Collected poems and poetic lectures, Moeser, Berlin 1881
  • Adolf Glaßbrenner. A biographical-literary-historical sketch. Hofmann, Berlin 1881
  • All sorts of nice plants. Cheerful children's songs from the woods and fields, from meadows and gardens. Illustrations by Lothar Meggendorfer . Braun & Schneider, Munich 1882
  • The maiden speech. A tragic history of the Reichstag election without politics. Illustrations by Hermann Scherenberg . Eckstein, Berlin 1883
  • On the germs show Simultaneous research through the satyrical microscope. Steffens, Leipzig 1885
  • Hum voices of the time. Funny and funny things from Papa Kronos' song primer. Eckstein, Berlin 1886
  • Pessimist bed blossoms of recent German poetry. Pfeilstücker, Berlin 1887. Digitized
  • The wife of several. Psychiatric-atavistic-bigamic-metaphysical-maritime original drama in five departments for incurable people, based on Henrik Ibsen's "Frau vom Meere". Lazarus, Berlin 1889
  • Nervous humoresques. With illustrations by Wilhelm Sprenger. Lazarus, Berlin 1889
  • Complete humorous and poetic guide through Berlin. Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1890
  • Laughing songs. New poems. Boll, Berlin 1892
  • Pythia calendar. Political-social-artistic weather forecast for the common year 1882. Freund, Berlin 1882
  • Skat album. Twelve original drawings by Otto Andres. With seals by Richard Schmidt-Cabanis. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1896. ( digitized version )
  • Humorous-satirical odds and ends from the bazaar of art and the market stall of life. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1896
  • Privy Councilor Jette's poetry album. From the poet's stove of a Berlin 'servant for everything'. Steinitz, Berlin 1896
  • Holly branches. Armed peace seals. Boll, Berlin 1899

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 896 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Richard Schmidt-Cabanis: Loose diary pages from my years of traveling as a bookseller. In: Contributions to the cultural history of Berlin , 1898, pp. 118-134.

Web links

Commons : Richard Schmidt-Cabanis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Engels: Richard Schmidt-Cabanis † . In: Berliner Tageblatt , November 12, 1903, evening edition, p. 1.
  2. ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner: International Freemasons Lexicon . Almathea-Verlag, Munich 1980, reprint from 1932, ISBN 3-85002-038-X .
  3. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt , November 12, 1903, evening edition, p. 1.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Cabanis, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1903
Place of death Berlin