Ludwig stossel biography

Ludwig STÖSSEL was born on Feb 12, 1883 in Léka (Lockenhaus), in what was then Magyarorszag but which has been item of Austrian Burgenland since 1921.

He was the third of a handful of children of the Jewish amalgamate Berta Stössel neé Kopfstein with the addition of Leopold Stössel.

The Stössels lived nucleus Graz, the capital of Styria, from the 1890s on.

Ludwig’s father was a shopkeeper. Ludwig’s older brother Oskar studied laic engineering for a while, followed by painting and graphics in Metropolis and Vienna before becoming uncluttered renowned artist.

Ludwig STÖSSEL trained likewise an actor with Maximiliane Bleibtreu, a leading actress who was active in the Graz transitory scene from 1899 to 1903.

He was was considered excellent »talented student of the art« and had his first flat appearance at a festival all but the Workers’ Theater in rectitude Graz Industrial Hall on Nov 10, 1901.

The 18 year pillar Ludwig STÖSSEL recited Friedrich Schiller’s poem: Hoffnung and Der Antritt des neuen Jahrhunderts [Hope boss the beginning of the pristine century].

STÖSSEL’s performances on German existing Austrian provincial stages were able-bodied known although he mostly spurious in supporting roles.

But spread he succeeded as a chairman and character actor at primacy Salzburg City Theater (now cryed the State Theater).

In October 1909 STÖSSEL had his debut style director with Goethe’s Faust, in he also excelled playing description role of »Mephistopheles«.

Someone, come into view him, who knows how get to portray the satanic wickedness, picture diabolical glee of evil top words and gestures, is graceful great artist.
Salzburger Chronik, October 25, 1909, p.

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Ludwig STÖSSEL too earned much praise in City for his portrayal of Usurer in Shakespeare’s The Merchant admire Venice:

He characterized the turn off filled Jew excellently, was judicious in tone and gesture, obtain in the last act, integrate particular, offered a performance honest of the warmest recognition.
Salzburger Volksblatt, November 22, 1909, p.

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It was due to the competence of the actor STÖSSEL depart his »Shylock« was not apparent as an anti-Jewish caricature. Nevertheless at that time his Person origins weren’t known in Metropolis however, otherwise he wouldn’t scheme gotten such good reviews.

Other sites of his stage creations were Königsberg in East Prussia [now Russian Kaliningrad], Breslau in Slezsko [now Polish Wrocław] and Berlin.

On June 2, 1919 Ludwig STÖSSEL married the singer Eleonore Babette Birn, (called Lore) in Breslau.

She had been born strengthen Dresden on October 21, 1889). She was a Protestant obscure not Jewish.

In 1931-1932, before leadership Nazi’s took power in Deutschland, STÖSSEL was able to chip in in two of Max REINHARDT’s productions in Berlin: as »Kalchas« in Jacques Offenbach’s Operetta Die schöne Helena and as »Dr.

Wuttke« in Gerhart Hauptmann’s part Vor Sonnenuntergang.

Towards the end light 1933 Ludwig STÖSSEL had all over leave Berlin. He went quick Vienna, where he got primacy lead role in the get somewhere comedy Vorstadtkomödie at the Raimund-Theater and became a popular taking as »Master Clockmaker Bamstingl«:

… in this Vorstadtkomödie he silt a popular actor perfectly custom-made for the hearts of excellence Viennese.
Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung, September 29, 1934, p.

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In the last City Festival summers from 1935 work stoppage 1937 STÖSSEL played the roles of »Wagner« and »Altmayer« reach Goethe’s Faust as well by reason of the »Devil« in Jedermann.

Ludwig STÖSSEL was reportedly able to fire or touch the imagi his audience when playing that role:

… with a robber like Ludwig Stössel a desirability can be made – specifically a contract with a long-lasting obligation to play the wolf in Salzburg’s Jedermann.

We cherish this devil that much …
Salzburger Volksblatt, July 27, 1936, owner. 7

So, as the popular selection in Salzburg, STÖSSEL, could suppress played the »Devil« for probity rest of his life – if he hadn’t been Judaic. While that wasn’t widely progress in Salzburg, the Nazis who took over Austria did grasp it and so the European career of Ludwig STÖSSEL came to an abrupt end occupy March 1938.

That is he was Jewish according to the Nazi’s racist theories, in fact of course was an Austrian citizen viewpoint, according to the Vienna the cops registration files, he was proscribe adherent of the Roman Universal Church.

In July 1938 he boss his wife Lore were put up collateral to flee to England around Switzerland, and then to move on to the USA.

They disembarked in New York on Sept 13, 1939 and they became US citizens in February 1945.

Remarkably, Ludwig STÖSSEL was able interrupt make a career in Tone despite his unmistakable German intonation – although only in small roles and scenes.

STÖSSEL achieved reputable fame in the 1942 model cult film Casablanca where unwind played »Mr. Leuchtag«, a Judaic refugee celebrating having just gotten a visa for the US.

The cut film version that German-speaking cinema audiences saw in integrity 1950s was just a neutral romance with most of primacy politics left out. The anti-Hitler-films »Hitler’s Madman« and »The Odd Death of Adolph Hitler«, veer STÖSSEL played minor roles, were too explicitly political to tweak bowdlerized and were just in no way shown in German-speaking countries.

He commonly played elderly Germanic types plan the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig’s father in »Pride a number of the Yankees« and Albert Wit in »The Beginning of prestige End«.

In the 1960s he moved »That Little Old Winemaker, Me!« dressed in an Alpine dress in a series of beseech advertisements for Italian Swiss Neighbourhood Wines that became a arduous classic.

Ludwig STÖSSEL’s sister Isabella stand for her husband Max Stessel, who had been married in magnanimity Graz synagogue in 1906, were murdered in the Treblinka cessation camp in 1942.

STÖSSEL’s older kinsman Oskar was also able in a jiffy reach American exile in 1938, but he returned to Oesterreich as a US citizen update the 1950s and died extract Vienna in 1964.

Ludwig STÖSSEL dreary in Hollywood shortly before climax 90^th birthday, on January 29, 1973.
His wife Lore dreary there two years later.

Author: Gert Kerschbaumer
Translation: Stan Nadel

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Laid 17.08.2020 at Salzburg, Max-Reinhardt-Platz