Albert Fischer (General Manager)

Albert Fischer (born October 21, 1872 in Rheydt ; † November 13, 1960 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German theater scholar , actor and director .

Life

Albert Fischer, who was born in Rheydt, turned to a degree in theater studies after completing his Abitur , followed by a commercial training and acting training, which he achieved with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed. In 1898 he got his first engagement at the Stadttheater Zürich , which he held until 1901. In 1902 he was engaged for the Ibsen tour, of which he was a member until 1904. After an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf in the 1905/1906 play year, he took up a position as a lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

In 1914 he was appointed director of the Stadttheater Barmen , which he held until 1916. In 1919 he was appointed artistic director of the Bonn City Theater , a position he held until 1932. From 1933 to 1937 Fischer was an honorary professor for lecturing arts and theater at the University of Bonn, after which he worked as a guest actor and teacher of the theater arts, until he was again appointed honorary professor at the University of Bonn in 1945. In addition, Fischer was again director of the Stadttheater Bonn in the playing year 1945/1946.

Albert Fischer, who was awarded the Beethoven Medal of the City of Bonn in 1915, was a "literary director" who preferred drama with a mixture of classics and new pieces. Fischer staged a lot himself and, for the first time, had his own set designs made for each work . He committed during his directorship Bonner compete with the emerging film , a team of the most famous artists of the time, so Agnes Straub , Asta Nielsen , Hermione grains , Albert Bassermann , Alexander Moissi and Fritz Kortner . As a stage actor, Fischer was convincing as Nathan , as a Jewish moneylender Shylok in the Merchant of Venice , as Richard III , as Master Anton in the tragedy Maria Magdalena , as the village judge Adam in Kleist's Broken Jug and as Saint Just in Danton's death .

In 2016, Albert-Fischer-Strasse in Bonn was named after him.

Works

• About the basics and goals of the technique of speaking, lecture and rhetoric: (the mimic-phonetic art of expression). A program and advertising leaflet, Carl Georgi, 1915

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : The German who's who . XI. Edition of Degener's Who is it ?, 2nd supplemented edition, Arani Verlag, Berlin, 1951. Page 146.
• Dr. Gerhard Oestreich (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 1, 8th Edition, De Gruyter: Berlin, 1954. Page 523.
• Westermannsmonthshefte, issues 1-6, G. Westermann, 1961. Page 117.

Web links

• Entry Albert Fischer (PDF; 5.2 MB) in www.theater-bonn.de; Retrieved February 12, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert-Fischer-Strasse in the Bonn street cadastre