Ferdinand Bonn
Ferdinand Franz Josef Bonn ( born December 20 1861 in Donauwörth, † September 24, 1933 in Berlin) was a German actor, playwright and theater director.
Life
Ferdinand Bonn, son of parents Franz and Bertha Bonn, born Promoli already written to the school 's plays, in which he himself participated. In 1880, he graduated from high school at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich and began studying law at the University of Munich. He first applied himself to painting and then to acting.
Bonn took acting lessons at Ernst Possart and made his debut in 1885 at the Stadttheater in Nuremberg as a dervish in Nathan the Wise. In the same year he played at the Deutsches Theater in Moscow and stays there for a season. Later he acted in Munich and at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he became known in the robbers and Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, Franz Moor.
In 1905 he founded The Berliner Theater in Berlin Ferdinand Bonn. Here numerous written by Bonn stage plays were premiered. He adapted stories by Arthur Conan Doyle to the master detective Sherlock Holmes with himself as Holmes, including in the 1910s, The Hound of the Baskervilles. His patriotic stage drama The Young Fritz was banned by Emperor Wilhelm II, whereupon Bonn reacted violently.
Even before the First World War he was forced to declare bankruptcy and then went back to theater tour. In the film he began in a few Danish productions and became known in 1913 by Ludwig II of Bavaria, in which he not only took over the title role, but also the production. He led this movie in a private screening before the king of Bavaria. He found high recognition.
In the film, Robert and Bertram, the funny vagabonds of 1915 played alongside him Ernst Lubitsch. In 1919, he turned again to the fairy tale king Ludwig II dar.
Repeatedly plays Bonn, directed by Richard Oswald. He mimed preferably embodied Detectives and 1919, Kaiser Wilhelm II in Kaiser Wilhelm's happiness and end. Between 1920 to 1924 he was frequently seen in Austrian films. Bonn, the film initially always in supporting roles, mostly received only minor tasks in recent years.
He also used the pseudonyms Florian Endli and Franz Baier.