Volkmar Kühns
Carl Paul Volkmar Kühns (born August 5, 1832 in Berlin , † April 23, 1905 in Braunschweig ) was a German actor.
Life
Volkmar Kühns was born as the second son of the registrar Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Kühns. During the birth of his older half-brother and later law professor Friedrich Julius Kühns , his father's first wife died. At the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin , a teacher noticed Volkmar Kühns' talent for acting. He himself reported about it: “A clear, lively presentation in a fluent lecture and correct German found his satisfaction.” With some classmates he founded a “dilettante stage”, which every two weeks “on Sunday a sequence of scenes that do not require female participation The respected court actor Fr ... (Franz) recommended to Kühn's parents, who were friends with him, after attending a performance, “... to test the scope of my talent, the permanence of my inclination, at a Berlin lovers' theater ". With the consent of his parents, Volkmar Kühns joined the Berlin lover's theater “Urania” as an outdoorsman and adolescent lover.
At the age of 20, Volkmar Kühns got his first job with a traveling theater company based in Arnstadt (Thuringia). His talent as a young outdoorsman brought him further engagements in Görlitz , Dessau and Stettin until 1855 . In Lübeck he was engaged as a performer of "first intriguants and character roles". He developed this role subject into a convincing representation in the years to come. Cologne and Leipzig were further stations in his stage career. When the director of the Leipzig City Theater, Rudolph Wirsing , moved to Prague in 1864 and took over the management of the German Royal State Theater, Volkmar Kühns followed him. With the performance of Goethe's “Faust” and with Kühns in the role of “Mefisto”, a new era of theater began in Prague. "At first Kühns made a consistently favorable impression, for whom it was easy to gain a foothold in the character subjects that had been insufficiently represented for years". In addition to his employment as an actor in many other characters, Volkmar Kühns also took on directing work and joined the Prague Conservatory as a teacher. Engagements in Wiesbaden and Hamburg followed in 1876. In 1893 Kühns returned to Prague and remained loyal to the ensemble until the end of his stage career in 1894. At the end of his life he lived in Braunschweig.
How much Volkmar Kühns was valued by his colleagues in Prague is shown by his many years of work on the local board of the “Cooperative of German Stage Members” and in the arbitration tribunal of the Royal German State Theater and the New German Theater.
Engagements
- 1851/52: Arnstadt (Thuringia), traveling society
- 1852: Berlin, summer theater in the Hennig brothers' summer garden
- 1852/53: Görlitz , city theater
- 1853: Berlin, summer theater in the Hennig brothers' summer garden
- 1853/54: Dessau , Ducal Court Theater
- 1854/55: Stettin , City Theater
- 1855/56: Lübeck , City Theater and Tivoli Theater
- 1856/58: Cologne , City Theater
- 1858/64: Leipzig , City Theater
- 1864/76: Prague , German Royal State Theater
- 1876/80: Wiesbaden , Royal Theater
- 1880/83: Hamburg , Thalia Theater
- 1883/94: Prague , German Royal State Theater
- Guest performances in:
- 1868: Berlin, Royal Theater
- 1872: Kolberg , Actien-Theater
- 1873: Vienna , City Theater
- 1873: Reichenberg (Bohemia), city theater
- 1875: Leitmeritz (Bohemia), City Theater and Wiesbaden, Royal Theater (1875)
- 1879: Frankfurt am Main , City Theater
- 1880: Frankfurt am Main, United City Theater and Hamburg, Thalia Theater
- 1888: Participation in the German Summer Theater, Prague
Roles in Prague (from 1864, selection)
- Matthias Ferner in “The Perjury Farmer”, a popular piece by Franz Anzengruber
- Barnau in “The tender relatives”, comedy by Roderich Benedix
- Painting in “Ein Fallissement”, play by Björnstjerne Björnson
- Father Duval in " The Lady of the Camellias ", drama by Alexandre Dumas
- Mephisto in “Faust”, tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Bancbanus in "A loyal servant of his master", drama by Franz Grillparzer
- Kreon in “Medea”, a drama by Franz Grillparzer
- Count Thorane in "Der Königsleutnant", comedy by Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
- Massow in "Hans Lange", play by Paul Heise
- Beethoven in “Adelaide”, genre picture with singing by Hugo Müller
- Rabagas in "Rabagas", comedy by Victorien Sardou
- Talbot in " The Maiden of Orleans ", drama by Friedrich Schiller
- Buttler in " Wallenstein's Death ", a drama by Friedrich Schiller
- Wilhelm Cecil, Baron von Burleigh in “ Maria Stuart ”, a drama by Friedrich Schiller
- Boris Godunow in “Demetrius”, a drama by Friedrich Schiller
- Town musician Miller in “Kabale und Liebe”, a drama by Friedrich Schiller
- Perin , court jester in "Donna Diana", comedy by Joseph Schreyvogel
- Menenius in "Coriolanus", tragedy by William Shakespeare
- Bondini , theater director in “Don Juan in Prague”, the occasion for the 100th anniversary of the opera in Prague by Heinrich von Zimmermann
literature
- A. Heinrich (Ed.): Almanach for Friends of the Dramatic Art, Berlin. Volume 16 (1852) - 17 (1853), publication date: January 1st of each year.
- A. Heinrich / Th. Ent (ed.): Deutscher Bühnen-Almanach , Berlin. Volume 18 (1854) - 57 (1893), date of publication: January 1st of each year.
- Ernst Gettke (Ed.): Almanach of the German Stage Members' Cooperative, Leipzig. Volume 3 (1875) - 17 (1889).
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): New Theater Almanach , Berlin. Volume 1 (1890) - 5 (1894).
- Oscar Teuber: History of the Prague Theater. From the Beginnings of Drama to the Most Recent Times , Third Part. Publishing house of the kk Hofdruckerei A. Haase, Prague 1888. Pages 585–817.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Ludwig Eisenberg: Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIX. Century . Paul List, Leipzig 1903. Page 558.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Anton Bettelheim (Ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume X, page 202. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1907.
- Richard Rosenheim: The History of the German Theaters in Prague 1883-1981 . Heinrich Mercy Sohn, Prague 1938.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Klagenfurt and Vienna. Volume 2! 960, page 1124.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 , Vol. 4 (Lfg. 19, 1968), p. 324f.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Willi Gorzny (Ed.): German Biographical Index , KG Saur, Munich-London-New York-Oxford-Paris 1986, page 1182.
- Paul S. Ulrich: Theater, dance and music in the German stage yearbook , volume 1, page 838. Arno Spitz publisher.
- Volkmar Kühns . In: Czech Theater Encyclopedia : German-Language Drama in the Bohemian Lands in the 19th Century, Praha, Institut umění - Divadelní ústav
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin: Church books Luisenstadt-Kirche, Berlin (Taufbuch 26/34, page 124, no. 212 and Taufbuch 26/36, page 351, no. 512).
- ^ Adolf Philipp (Ed.): Hamburger Theater-Dekamerone. 2nd Edition. FW Rademacher, Hamburg 1881. Pages 241–246.
- ↑ The court actor named “Fr ...” could have been “Herr Franz”, who was named in the German stage almanac around 1850 as a performing member of the Königliche Schauspiele zu Berlin.
- ^ Oscar Teuber: History of the Prague Theater. Page 588.
- ↑ Braunschweiger Latest News (4th supplement). No. 101, April 30, 1905.
- ^ Oscar Teuber: History of the Prague Theater. Page 621. (The guest performance ended prematurely in 1873 after a dispute with the “Artistic Director” at the Vienna City Theater, Dr. Heinrich Laube).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kühns, Volkmar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kühns, Carl Paul Volkmar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1905 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |