Richard Schultz

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Richard Schultz, 1898

Richard Schultz , stage name Schultz-Donato (born April 3, 1863 in Vienna , † February 5, 1928 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German actor and theater director .

life and work

The son of a silk merchant received his acting training at the Conservatory for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , according to an early statement from the court actor Karl Meixner . He made his debut in 1879 at the Fürstlich Sulkowskischen Privat-Theater , a practice stage in Matzleinsdorfer Strasse in Vienna. Afterwards he was engaged as a “ youth hero ” at various provincial theaters, including at the Marburg City Theater , in Graz , Trieste , at the Meininger Hoftheater and finally at the Vienna City Theater . After completing his military service, Schultz went to the German Theater in Berlin in 1887 and to the Imperial German Court Theater in Saint Petersburg in 1888 .

In December 1888, Schultz married the soubrette Josefine Dora . The marriage later ended in divorce. 1889-1891 he was engaged in Berlin at the Berlin theater . From October 1891, Schultz led a touring ensemble with whom he performed the pantomime The Prodigal Son on more than 70 stages , and briefly also directed the Tivoli Theater in Bremen , which was newly built in 1891 .

In 1893 Richard Schultz leased the Berlin Central Theater , which was located in a hall built in 1865 at Alte Jakobstrasse 30–32 in what is now Waldeckpark . With a series of lightweight pieces of equipment , under Schultz, the house was "again a popular and flourishing entertainment theater" by 1898. In the case of the plays listed, however, the plot had to take a back seat to the optics, according to the theater scholar Horst Windelboth:

“What he [Schultz] offers here in the equipment reviews ... are only momentary effects that are sent by the director and strung together at great speed. What remains as shamefacedly as the plot is the same story of the provincial who rushed through all the sights of Berlin, experiences the most grotesque adventures, until finally the plot turns entirely into 'a delightful, insane mixture of circus play, clown jokes, ballet, operetta 'Athletic sport, fireworks, Gerson exhibition' dissolves. The only thing that matters is the choreographic effect, the pun, the equipment, the grotesque situation, in short, the 'trick' that plunges the audience into ever new, unexpected and enthusiastically received surprises. "

For example, Schultz brought real Arabs onto the stage "along with donkeys and camels" in the revue Eine wildeache . But also Social Aristocrats , a drama by Arno Holz , had its world premiere under Holz 'direction as a self-financed production there on June 15, 1897. Max Reinhardt played the role of Bellermann.

Program booklet 1898

In 1898, Schultz gave up the management of the Central Theater and instead took over the previous Unter den Linden theater , which he had rebuilt and opened under the new name Metropol Theater with the set operetta Das Paradies der Frauen . Together with the dramaturge Julius friend Schultz developed in the Central Theater successful on equipment farce with singing and dancing to "Metropol-year Revue" continues up to the First World War as the was great annual social event in Berlin and German theater to the leading Made revue stage. Over the years, the ensemble has included the popular comedian Guido Thielscher , Fritzi Massary , Joseph Giampietro , Josef Josephi and later Trude Hesterberg . From 1901 Victor Hollaender was Kapellmeister and composer . After the beginning of the First World War, Schultz then increasingly focused on operetta productions ( Jacques Offenbach , Leo Fall , Emmerich Kálmán ).

In 1919 Richard Schultz, who had made a considerable fortune through the Metropol Theater , moved to his manor in Upper Bavaria and then back to Graz. “When he felt his end was coming, for a long time, seriously ill, he went back to Berlin, his adopted home, where he admitted he wanted to die and be buried,” says the obituary of the Vossische Zeitung .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ludwig Eisenberg: Schultz, Richard. In: Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century. List, Leipzig 1903, p. 937.
  2. ^ A b Ottmar G. Flüggen: Schultz-Donato, Richard. In: Biographisches Bühnen-Lexikon der Deutschen Theater. 1st year. A. Bruckmann, Munich 1892, p. 283.
  3. ↑ Schultz, Richard. In: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland Scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. Bruno Volger Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig-Gohlis 1908, p. 452.
  4. ↑ a b Richard Schul [t] z †. In: Vossische Zeitung v. February 6, 1932 (evening edition).
  5. ^ Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899). Bielefeld 2007, p. 161 f., S. a. P. 343 f.
  6. ↑ Horst Windelboth: "Small Temple of the Muses in the Alte Jacobstrasse." About the Berlin Central Theater. In: Der Bär von Berlin 6 (1956), pp. 86-107, here p. 101.
  7. ^ Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899). Bielefeld 2007, p. 247.
  8. ^ Ferdinand Avenarius: Arno wood and his work. Berlin 1923, p. 20; Robert Oeste: Arno Holz. The long poem and the tradition of poetic experiment. Bonn 1982, p. 175.
  9. ^ Elisabeth Fleissner-Moebius:  Richard Schultz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 351 f. (Direct links on p. 351 , p. 352 ).
  10. ^ New Theater-Almanach / Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 10 (1899) - 31 (1920); On the history of the Metropol-Theater (accessed on February 6, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultz-Donato, Richard (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1928
Place of death Berlin