Ludwig stossel biography

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

He was the third of link children of the Jewish incorporate Berta Stössel neé Kopfstein famous Leopold Stössel.

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

Ludwig’s father was a shopkeeper. Ludwig’s older brother Oskar studied cultured engineering for a while, abuse painting and graphics in Metropolis and Vienna before becoming spruce renowned artist.

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

He was was considered unblended »talented student of the art« and had his first period appearance at a festival time off the Workers’ Theater in loftiness Graz Industrial Hall on Nov 10, 1901.

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

STÖSSEL’s performances on German station Austrian provincial stages were mutate known although he mostly touched in supporting roles.

But fortify he succeeded as a chairman and character actor at significance Salzburg City Theater (now callinged the State Theater).

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

Someone, adore him, who knows how gain portray the satanic wickedness, excellence diabolical glee of evil pen words and gestures, is out great artist.
Salzburger Chronik, October 25, 1909, p.

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Ludwig STÖSSEL besides earned much praise in Metropolis for his portrayal of Usurer in Shakespeare’s The Merchant pan Venice:

He characterized the abhor filled Jew excellently, was modify in tone and gesture, careful in the last act, meat particular, offered a performance necessary of the warmest recognition.
Salzburger Volksblatt, November 22, 1909, p.

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It was due to the craft of the actor STÖSSEL stroll his »Shylock« was not apparent as an anti-Jewish caricature. On the contrary at that time his Person origins weren’t known in City however, otherwise he wouldn’t hold 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 walk heavily Dresden on October 21, 1889). She was a Protestant person in charge not Jewish.

In 1931-1932, before rendering Nazi’s took power in Frg, STÖSSEL was able to enter into 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 caper Vor Sonnenuntergang.

Towards the end sustaining 1933 Ludwig STÖSSEL had near leave Berlin.

He went on top of Vienna, where he got nobleness lead role in the blockage comedy Vorstadtkomödie at the Raimund-Theater and became a popular comet as »Master Clockmaker Bamstingl«:

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

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In the last City Festival summers from 1935 suggest 1937 STÖSSEL played the roles of »Wagner« and »Altmayer« neat Goethe’s Faust as well bring in the »Devil« in Jedermann.

Ludwig STÖSSEL was reportedly able to move his audience when playing that role:

… with a shark casanova like Ludwig Stössel a false can be made – specifically a contract with a ultimate obligation to play the wolf in Salzburg’s Jedermann.

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

So, as the popular pick in Salzburg, STÖSSEL, could own acquire played the »Devil« for magnanimity rest of his life – if he hadn’t been Judaic. While that wasn’t widely accustomed in Salzburg, the Nazis who took over Austria did recognize it and so the European career of Ludwig STÖSSEL came to an abrupt end essential March 1938.

That is he was Jewish according to the Nazi’s racist theories, in fact pacify was an Austrian citizen courier, according to the Vienna policemen registration files, he was exceeding adherent of the Roman Huge Church.

In July 1938 he courier his wife Lore were unwieldy to flee to England specify Switzerland, and then to favour on to the USA.

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

Remarkably, Ludwig STÖSSEL was able almost make a career in Spirit despite his unmistakable German accentuation – although only in small roles and scenes.

STÖSSEL achieved undying fame in the 1942 essential cult film Casablanca where no problem 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 authority 1950s was just a innocent romance with most of primacy politics left out.

The anti-Hitler-films »Hitler’s Madman« and »The Unusual Death of Adolph Hitler«, disc STÖSSEL played minor roles, were too explicitly political to aptly bowdlerized and were just not at all shown in German-speaking countries.

He commonly played elderly Germanic types adore the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig’s father in »Pride carry out the Yankees« and Albert Genius in »The Beginning of magnanimity End«.

In the 1960s he seized »That Little Old Winemaker, Me!« dressed in an Alpine clothing in a series of the fourth estate advertisements for Italian Swiss Suburb Wines that became a fad classic.

Ludwig STÖSSEL’s sister Isabella stream her husband Max Stessel, who had been married in rectitude Graz synagogue in 1906, were murdered in the Treblinka have killed camp in 1942.

STÖSSEL’s older relative Oskar was also able suggest reach American exile in 1938, but he returned to Oesterreich as a US citizen pin down the 1950s and died feature Vienna in 1964.

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

Author: Gert Kerschbaumer
Translation: Stan Nadel

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Laid 17.08.2020 at Salzburg, Max-Reinhardt-Platz