Willy Koch

This article is about the actor Willy Koch. For other people see Willi Koch (disambiguation) .

Willy Koch (before 1895 - after March 1927) was a German theater actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Koch had been on the stage since 1895. He began his theater career in Lübeck , where he stayed for two years, came to Stralsund in 1898 and joined the Association of the Court Theater in Neustrelitz in 1900 . Both as a bon vivant and as a young comedian , he achieved great success. Ludwig Eisenberg wrote about Koch:

“'Reif-Reiflingen' in War and Peace , 'Baberly' in Charley's aunt, etc. were effective achievements by Koch. He was very versatile and represented all subjects with luck. His warm, lively game suited him perfectly. "

- Ludwig Eisenberg

The New Theater Almanac and the German Stage Yearbook for 1914 list him as chief director of a play in the natural theater of the Centenary Exhibition in Breslau in 1913.

From 1924 or 1925, Koch worked extensively as a radio play speaker at the Schlesische Funkstunde in Breslau. The ARD radio play database records 66 radio plays, at that time still called "broadcast games", in which he participated as a speaker within the years from 1924 to 1927, between February 7, 1925 and April 5, 1927. All productions were broadcast live without recording. After this time his track is lost.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 524 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 524 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ^ FA Günther: New theater almanac for the year ... FA Günther, 1914 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ^ German stage association: German stage yearbook . FA Günther & Sohn, 1914 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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