Robert Weil

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Robert Weil , pseudonyms Homunculus and Gustav Holm (born August 4, 1881 in Vienna , † December 5, 1960 in New York City ) was an Austrian author and cabaret artist .

Life

Weil grew up in a well-off Jewish family. His father Moritz Weil (also: Moriz Weil) - he died in 1907 - was a partner (and later sole owner) of the oil refinery Sobotka & Weil and Moritz Weil in Vienna- Sechshaus , Wehrgasse 5 (today: Pillergasse  5), where the family also owned theirs Had residence.

After graduation Weil studied at the University of Vienna Law ; In 1906 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. He then completed the prescribed for some legal practitioners judicial year .

In 1905 he made his successful debut as an author (but with bad reviews) at the Raimund Theater in Vienna with the play Irdische Richter . Even Lonely souls and the law were found at the Raimund Theater; A little marriage and the paradise of marriage in 1912 at the Berlin Rose Theater .

As of 1910, Weil also performed poems and humorous scenes he had composed himself as a homunculus in various venues in Vienna, for example in the cabaret Himmel , in Café Landtmann or in the Great Beethovensaal (former stock exchange hall of Palais Ferstel , Strauchgasse  4). Above all, his school essays by Poldi Huber (a bestseller from 1914 until shortly after the First World War) also proved to be a “hit” at lectures in front theaters and in the hinterland. The expression of a Viennese who tries (rather in vain) to intone Standard German has found its way into the dialect vocabulary as Poidihuabarisch .

In 1920, the highly productive author Robert Weil gave The Book of Anecdotes , The New Knigge and his life novel Rück, Bruder! out, then he published in magazines and wrote film scripts. As Gustav Holm, he and Ernst Décsey (1870–1941) provided the libretto for the singspiel Sissy by Ernst and Hubert Marischka, which premiered on December 23, 1932 in the Theater an der Wien (and performed 313 times until November 14, 1935) (music: Fritz Kreisler ), for which a London production next year was negotiated days after the premiere.

After Austria was annexed in March 1938, Weil first had to flee to Prague and a year later to Zurich . Upton Sinclair made it possible for him to emigrate to New York. There the sixty-year-old had to get by as a telegram messenger at times. After the Second World War , in 1948, Weil's biography of his friend Robert Stolz (1880–1975) appeared in three-four time through the world . Weil's two-volume autobiography, however, remained unpublished and Weil's theater and film projects failed.

In 1963 a small selection of his school essays by Poldi Huber was published. The harmless, cheerful texts in artfully incorrect spelling and in the laborious High German of an Ottakring lower-class child are Weil's best-known literary achievement to this day. Some of Weil's texts have appeared in cabaret anthologies .

Works (selection)

  • Earthly judges. Drama in three acts with prelude and epilogue . Alkalay, Pressburg 1905, OBV .
  • -, Fritz Schönpflug (Ill.): The charity committee and others . Knepler, Vienna 1909
  • Lonely souls. Comedy in one act by Homunculus . Schmiedell, Vienna 1911, OBV .
    • -, Oskar Süssmann (translator): Solecaj animoj . ( Esperanto ). Esperantista Teatro, Eger 1913, OBV .
  • From my workshop . (Volumes 1-3). Frischmann, 3rd edition 1911; ( Anthology ). Löwit, Vienna 1917
  • -, Erwin Engel: Wiener Schnitzel, served by Homunculus and Ängstlich . (Issues 1-3). Pollak, 3rd issue, Vienna (approx. 1910), 1st issue, 2nd edition 1912
  • The paradise of marriage. Comedy in three acts . (Stage manuscript). Atheneum, Berlin 1912, OBV .
  • Viennese Liäsons . Halm & Goldmann, Vienna (ca.1913)
  • On the excursion . (Aphorisms). Löwit, Vienna 1914; 21.-30. Th., Löwit, Vienna 1916
  • School essays by Poldi Huber, pupil of IV. B primary school class Vienna-Ottakring. Collected by homunculus . (Published in numerous individual issues and several series). Löwit, Vienna 1914–1924, OBV .
    • -, W (ilfried) Zeller -zellenberg (Ill.): The school essays of Poldi Huber . Forum-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 1963, OBV .
    • School essays by Poldi Huber and other wickedness . Löcker, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85409-175-3 .
  • The infallible theory. Comedy in one act . Eirich, Vienna 1914, OBV .
  • Warlike . Löwit, Vienna 1915
  • Ludwig Roman Chmel (music), -: The Polish legionnaire . (The total profit is dedicated to the Polish legions ). (Music printing, piano score). Josef Weinberger , Leipzig 1915, OBV .
  • The beautiful Emil . Löwit, Vienna 1916
  • -, Theo Zasche : O these times. A snappy war picture book Löwit, Vienna 1916
  • Klingers! A family idyll . Löwit, Vienna 1917; 2nd episode, Vienna 1919
  • Wallerstein's camp . Löwit, Vienna 1918
  • What can happen to you (biographical). Halm & Goldmann, Vienna 1918
  • The bond of cosiness and other cozy things . Halm & Goldmann, Vienna 1919
  • The Book of Anecdotes by Homunculus . Nestroy-Verlag, Vienna 1920
  • Come closer, brother! The novel of my life . Viennese Literary Institute, Vienna / Berlin 1920
  • The new etiquette. Dealing with contemporary people . Zierfuß, Vienna / Leipzig 1921
  • The round event and other events . Halm & Goldmann, Vienna 1921, OBV .
  • Poldi Huber wet it. Zeidschrieft for interurban reconnaissance. Release each jar once a month. Head of Department: Leopold Huber. Schieler of the IV secondary school class in Othakrink . (Date of publication: Volume 1.1924–3.1926). Dr. Steinmann, Vienna 1924–26, OBV .
  • From Shakespeare to Uridil . The spiritual collapse of Europe! The time problem! . Perles, Vienna 1927, OBV .
  • -, Michael Biró (Ill.): The automaton man . Glöckner-Bücher, Volume 36, ZDB -ID 2061131-6 . Glöckner-Verlag, Vienna 1929, OBV .
  • Ernst Decsey, -: Sissy's bridal trip. Comedy in a prelude and three acts . (Printed as a manuscript). Steyrermühl, Vienna 1931, OBV .
  • Fritz Kreisler, - (among others): Sissy. Singspiel in two acts (four pictures) by Ernst and Hubert Marischka based on a comedy by Ernst Decsey and Gustav Holm . (Music print, piano reduction with text). W. Karczag, Leipzig / Vienna 1932, OBV .
  • Franz Salmhofer (music), Ernst Decsey, -: Lady in a dream. Opera in three acts (six pictures) . (Text book). Universal Edition, Vienna 1935, OBV .
  • Through the world in 3/4 time. A picture of the life of the composer Robert Stolz . Ibis-Verlag, Linz (among others) 1948, OBV .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Robert Weil in the birth register of the IKG (father: Moritz Weil, mother: Martha, née Schulhof) on FamilySearch, accessed on August 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Moritz Weil party. In:  Neue Freie Presse , July 27, 1907, p. 20 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  3. ↑ Peter Wehle : Do you speak Viennese? From Adaxl to Zwutschkerl . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3961-3 , p. 223.
  4. ^ Theater an der Wien. "Sissy" (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 24527/1932, December 24, 1932, p. 5 center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  5. ^ Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien . Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich / Vienna (among others) 1952, OBV , p. 476.
  6. ↑ Theater and Art News. (...) Director Marischka stages "Sissy" in London. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 24528/1932, December 25, 1932, p. 16 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Opened by Siegmund Kunstadt († 1936; 64 years), former tenor of the Carltheater , on October 1, 1910 at today's Linke Wienzeile 4 as a competitor to the hell that has existed since 1906 at Linke Wienzeile 6 ( Theater an der Wien ) . - See: Felix Czeike : Himmel (cabaret) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna, accessed on May 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Because, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Homunculus (pseudonym); Gustav Holm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1960
Place of death New York City