Adolf Rott

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Adolf Rott
Memorial plaque on the location of the house where he was born, inaugurated on March 1, 1982; Rott himself was present at the inauguration.

Adolf Rott (born December 14, 1905 in Barmen ; † July 24, 1982 in Vienna ) was a German theater director , theater director , theater director and theater manager. From 1954 to 1959 he was director of the Vienna Burgtheater .

Life

After graduating from high school, Adolf Rott studied law and began his theater career as a directing student of Luise Dumont at the Städtische Bühnen in Düsseldorf . There he worked as a directing student and later as assistant to Peter Scharoff . This was followed by two years of traveling as a director, dramaturge and actor and then a series of engagements as senior stage director, dramaturge, actor and deputy director on larger stages. In 1933 Rott was hired as a director at the Staatstheater Berlin and in 1934 at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg . The next station was the Gdansk State Theater , where he worked as deputy general director, senior stage director and dramaturge ; at the same time he was director of the state drama school. In 1936 Adolf Rott was committed to the Burgtheater Vienna . From September 1, 1954 to August 31, 1959, he was the first director of the reopened Burgtheater to be severely feuded by critics such as Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel .

Until 1945 he also worked as a teacher at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . After 1945 he was appointed senior director of the Burgtheater, the Vienna State Opera and the Volksoper , where he created key productions that were on the repertoire of these stages for years.

Adolf Rott was a co-founder of the festival in Graz. As a permanent director of the Bregenz Festival , he drew international attention to this event by performing classic operettas on the stage on Lake Constance . In addition to his work in Vienna, Adolf Rott was Heinz Tietjen's first employee at the Berlin Opera after 1945 . After his resignation as Burgtheater director, Adolf Rott worked as chief director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, but returned to Vienna again and again as chief director of the Austrian federal theaters.

During this time he worked at opera houses in the United States ( San Francisco , Chicago , Philadelphia , New York , Dallas , Fort Worth ), in Italy ( Teatro alla Scala in Milan , Teatro la Fenice in Venice , Great Opera in Rome , Teatro San Carlo in Naples , Teatro Massimo in Palermo ) and many other major opera houses such as Covent Garden Opera in London , Festival Edinburgh , Paris Opera , Opera house Madrid , Zurich Opera house and Geneva , numerous opera stages of Germany, Finnish National Theater in Helsinki , Royal Opera in Stockholm and Oslo and the Copenhagen Royal Opera .

Adolf Rott is considered to be the innovator of Viennese classical operetta . He exported this art form to many European countries.

Adolf Rott died at the age of 76 on Saturday, July 24, 1982 in Vienna.

Awards

For the reopening of the Burgtheater am Ring, to the reconstruction of which he made a significant contribution, Adolf Rott received a decree on October 11, 1955, in which he was thanked and recognized by the federal government. At the opening ceremony in October 1955, the members of the Burgtheater awarded him the colleague's ring of honor for his commitment. In the course of the years after 1945 he was appointed professor, councilor and honorary member of the Burgtheater. In 1975 he became an honorary member of the Volksoper.

He also received the following honors and awards:

Plaque

“Before the nights of bombing there was
a small
Bergisch slate house in which,
on December 14, 1905, the later
director and reconstructor of
the Vienna Burgtheater,
Hofrat Prof. Dr.
Adolf Rott was
born
his Viennese friends "

- Memorial plaque on the location of the house where he was born

Web links

Commons : Adolf Rott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial plaque for Adolf Rott. Retrieved January 10, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Before Rott, everyone is equal , Der Spiegel, February 16, 1955
  3. ^ Curriculum Vitae from the estate of Adolf Rott
  4. ↑ Memorial plaque for Adolf Rott , denkmal-wuppertal.de


personal data
SURNAME Rott, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, director, director and manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1982
Place of death Vienna