Robert Steidl
Robert Steidl (born January 31, 1865 in Hamburg ; † April 24, 1927 there ; actually Hermann Adolf Anton Robert Franke ) was a German comedian, humorist, parodist and author.
Life
Steidl's parents had their own theater. With his couplet appearances first in the Berlin Metropol-Theater and later in the Apollo-Theater , presented stereotypically in a gray frock coat and a gray top hat, he resembles the lecture style of Otto Reutter , with whom he was friends. Occasionally Steidl also acted as a female impersonator . He had brilliant appearances in operettas by Paul Lincke , who was a friend of Steidl and composed the melodies for some of his couplets. For the Cologne Carnival in 1922 he wrote the successful mood song We drown our grandma in her little house , to the tune of which the text My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop is sung. At times Steidl belonged to the Szczecin singers who gave guest performances in the Reichshallen Theater in Berlin. His recordings on shellac were very extensive, mostly recorded by Deutsche Grammophon . Steidl died in Hamburg on April 24, 1927 and was buried in the Matthäi churchyard in Berlin.
Works
- The little finch cock (1909)
- In the youth it feels good (we drown our grandma's little house) (1922)
- When you think the moon is going down
- Father, mother, daughter, brother
- On the Elbe
Discography
- Oh, you my Lotte
- Oh Marie
- Aeroplan girl
- Asta couplet
- On the mezzanine
- On the cycling track in Friedenau
- Off to the ice palace
- Automobile couplet
- Bank singer ballad
- Caroline
- The girls like it so much
- The song of marriage
- The paradise bed
- The horse, the cow and kaa time
- That doesn't mean anything
- The bathing serpent
- The tambour
- The wobble dance
- Santa Claus is coming
- The barrel organ ballad by Celly de Rheydt
- The lion hunt in Leipzig
- The world is getting more beautiful
- A frog tale, about 536 frogs, a glowing maiden and a frog nature
- A cold serenade
- A motorboat trip to Grünau
- One moo, one muh ( Wilhelm Lindemann )
- Spring raptus
- Singing by the Indian in the Zossener camp
- HIAWATHA
- Hü-Hott, trala!
- It feels good in youth
- Katharinchen with the curly hair
- Lohengrin parody
- O greet me the Jungfernstieg
- O greet me from the sweet Spree
- Horrible barrel organ ballad by the reindeer Dahse
- Schorschel, buy me a car
- See, doll, my sweet little fairy!
- Uhlenhorster Fährhaus - gondola ride with fireworks
- Wine waltz
- When you think the moon is going down
- When calculators move into the blossom of the trees
- Who lifts his legs the fastest
- We have so nothing and we have so nothing!
Filmography
- 1904: On the cycling track in Friedenau
- 1915: Robert as Lohengrin
- 1925: The old ballroom
literature
- Helga Bemmann: Reutter, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 474 ( digitized version ).
- Walther Kiaulehn: Berlin: fate of a cosmopolitan city. CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41634-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Robert Steidl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Robert Steidl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Steidl at filmportal.de
- Poster: Metropol-Kabarett - Robert Steidl (ca.1920)
- Drag Queens of Theater (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters. Göttingen, 1991.
- ↑ Hanno Sowade: Melodies for Millions. New exhibition in the House of History . In: museum magazine of the Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2/2008.
- ↑ Eckhard John, Renate Sarr: My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop (2008). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
- ↑ Xaver Frühbeis: Without brakes, without lights: "My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop". BR-Klassik Mittagsmusik extra: folk songs, broadcast on December 31, 2010, accessed on July 21, 2016
- ↑ The Badeschwerenöter on YouTube
- ↑ A sniffy serenade on YouTube
- ↑ A motorboat trip to Grünau on YouTube
- ↑ Eine Muh, eine Mäh , recorded on gramophone 9-42 540 (mx 23442 1/2 r) on YouTube
- ↑ Singing of the Indian in the Zossener camp on YouTube
- ↑ HIAWATHA on YouTube
- ↑ On the Radrennbahn in Friedenau, spoken by Robert Steidl ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 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. (MP3; 2.0 MB) Robert Steidl's voice can be found in a recording from the estate of Oskar Messter , which is now in the Federal Archives
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steidl, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franke, Hermann Adolf Anton Robert (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comedian, humorist, parodist and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1927 |
Place of death | Hamburg |