Victor Arnold
Victor Arnold (born October 9, 1873 in Vienna , † September 16, 1914 near Dresden ) was an Austrian actor on German stages.
Live and act
Victor Arnold came from a Jewish family. Arnold initially worked at the Residenztheater in Munich . From 1902 he belonged to the Max Reinhardts ensemble in Berlin .
He was praised as a great comedian by Alfred Kerr and Siegfried Jacobsohn . His roles included Flaut / Thisbe in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905), Polonius in his Hamlet (1913), Hausknecht in the world premiere of Hofmannsthal's Cristina's Journey Home (1910), Just in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1911), Androclus in Shaw's Androclus and the lion (1912) and cloud in the world premiere of Sternheim's Bürger Schippel (1913).
Arnold was particularly successful in plays by Molière , including as Sganarelle in The Doctor Against Will and in the title role of George Dandin . He died by suicide in a sanatorium out of desperation over the war.
Works
- Franz Arnold, Victor Arnold: My old man. Comedy in three acts . Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1913.
Filmography
- 1910: Sumurûn
- 1914: The company gets married
- 1914: a Venetian night
- 1914: The pride of the company
- 1915: The wrong Asta Nielsen
- 1915: front stairs - back stairs
literature
- Curt Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexicon . Volume 1: Christine Dössel, Marietta Piekenbrock: authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. Completely revised and expanded 2nd edition. With the participation of Jean-Claude Kuner and Curt Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 39 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Biography with photo
- Victor Arnold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnold, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor on German stages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1914 |
| Place of death | Dresden |