Robert Nhil

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Robert Nhil (by Jan Vilímek , 1892)

Robert Nhil , also Robert Nhilson , actually Gustav Reinhold Julius Stegmüller (* July 18, 1858 in Hamburg ; † October 31, 1938 there ) was a German theater actor and celebrated character star of the theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life

The merchant's son grew up in Gotha , among other places , where he also attended grammar school. He had attended the Polytechnic in Munich with the original intention of becoming an architect (like his brother) . Influenced by the actor Adolf Christen , he changed his mind and switched to the Akademie der Künste for artistic training. In addition to Christians, his teachers also included Christian's wife Klara Ziegler and the actor Christian Puley .

He made his theater debut on December 17, 1880 in Eßlingen am Neckar with the title role in the comedy "In Goethe's funny days" . Nhil's early stage stops since October 3, 1882 include Meiningen , Heidelberg , Chemnitz , Kiel (winter 1884/1885), Oldenburg (court theater, from September 12, 1885; again winter 1886/87) and Dresden (also court theater, from September 2 , 1885) August 1887). Between 1889 and 1900, Nhil returned twice to Hamburg, to the Thalia Theater , for permanent engagements in his hometown . Between the two engagements, he worked for almost three years (from September 1892 to June 1895) at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna . Guest performances have taken him all over Europe, a. a. to London (June 1897) and Paris (May 1899). In 1900 he was involved as a partner in founding the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , which opened on September 15 of the same year and to which he was to belong until his retirement in 1935.

Tomb of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery in Ohlsdorf

From an early age, Nhil covered almost the entire range of heroic roles and central characters in world literature: he was the Iago in Shakespeare's Othello , Wallenstein in the Schiller drama of the same name , Spain's King Philip II in Schiller's Don Karlos , Lessing's Nathan the Wise , Lord Bolingbroke in Eugène Scribe's comedy The Glass of Water and Mephisto in Goethe's Faust . He celebrated particular success in performances based on Henrik Ibsen's models : even before the turn of the century, Nhil was successful as John Gabriel Borkman in the society play of the same name, as Hjalmar in Die Wildente and as Torvald Helmer in Nora .

The theater artist received numerous awards at an early stage, including the Oldenburg Golden Medal and the Coburg Duke Ernst Medal . On the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was thought of as “the most popular, perhaps the last great classical actor who worked in Hamburg. Rarely Hamburg has so honored an actor and celebrated like Nhil. " . He died a good three months later.

Nhil, who had also worked as an acting teacher (among others for Elisabeth Flickenschildt ), found his final resting place in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the final resting places of Gustaf Gründgens and Ida Ehre . In honor of Nhil, a Robert-Nhil-Strasse in the St. Georg district of Hamburg was named.

literature

  • Adolph Kohut : The Dresden Court Theater in the Present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 176 f., ( Digitized version ).
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 723 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members. Berlin 1906. p. 55
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1939. Berlin 1939. P. 95
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. 24. Delivery KG Saur-Verlag, Bern 1993, p. 2288 f. (Entry Reinhold Ste (e) gmüller)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Kohut : The Dresden court theater in the present . E. Pierson's Publishing House. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 176 f., ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ St. Catharinen's baptismal register, No. 48/476
  3. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 21, No. 1180/1938
  4. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 723 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Hagemann, p. 55
  6. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1939, p. 95
  7. ↑ http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p016187.htm
  8. ↑ on the far south-eastern edge of the facility, see file: Althamb Memorial Cemetery EhreGründgens1.JPG and file: Althamb Memorial Cemetery EhreGründgens2.JPG
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 19, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburgwiki.de
personal data
SURNAME Nhil, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nhilson, Robert (full name); Stegmüller, Gustav Reinhold Julius (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1938
Place of death Hamburg