Gustaf Kadelburg

Gustav Kadelburg (26 January 1851, in Pest – 11 September 1925, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-German actor and dramatist. His greatest success came posthumously, the operetta version of his play The White Horse Inn. Kadelburg was born into a Jewish family from Budapest, his parents were Moritz Kadelburg and Johanna née Hasenfeld. He had a younger sister, a younger brother and several half–siblings from the first marriage of his father. In the 1860s or 1870s the family moved to Vienna. He became an actor against the will of his father, just like his brother Heinrich (1856-1910). His acting teacher was Alexander Strakosch. He debuted in Halle an der Saale and made his first appearance at Leipzig in 1869. Two years later he performed at the Wallnertheater in Berlin. From 1878 to 1880 he was engaged at the Vienna Stadttheater, where he played Bonvivant roles. Thereafter he moved to Berlin. From 1884 on he was performing at Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1889 he could be seen as Ingenieur Hoffmann in the world premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann’s drama Vor Sonnenaufgang at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. He was also very successful in comedy parts, but abandoned the stage in 1894 to write comedies and farces.