Albert Steinrück

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Albert Steinrück, photograph by Sasha Stone , around 1927

Albert Steinrück (born May 20, 1872 in Wetterburg , Waldeck , † February 10, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German theater and silent film actor .

Life

Steinrück began as a painter. Only then did he start acting, but without having completed any training. From the beginning of the 1890s he worked at theaters in Mühlhausen , Breslau and Hanover and from 1901 in Berlin . In 1906 he joined Max Reinhardt's ensemble at the Deutsches Theater . From 1908 to 1920 he was at the Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich , where he also directed and ended up being acting director. He played, among other things, Woyzeck in the world premiere of the drama of the same name by Georg Büchner on November 8, 1913. In the 1920s he was again employed at various stages in Berlin.

Since 1919 Albert Steinrück was also constantly active in film. He was happy to be cast in the roles of cruel fathers. In addition to Rosa Valetti , he played in Reinhold Schünzel's moral film Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstrasse . His colleague Paul Wegener cast him in 1920 as Rabbi Loew in Der Golem, How He Came Into The World . A great success was 1922/23 Fridericus Rex von Arzén von Cserépy , in which Steinrück played Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia . He played alongside Asta Nielsen in Das Haus am Meer and Hedda Gabler , alongside Henny Porten in Die Geierwally and Das goldene Kalb . He had his last leading role in 1929 in Joe May's Asphalt . Steinrück died while rehearsing for Ehm Welk's play Descent from the Cross , in which he was  supposed to play the dying writer Leo Tolstoy at the Volksbühne Berlin .

Albert Steinrück was first married to Elisabeth Gussmann (1885–1920), called Liesl, a sister of Olga Schnitzler, so that he was related by marriage to the writer Arthur Schnitzler . Second marriage to the daughter of the painter Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1875–1958), Elisabeth called Lissi (1897–1993). Their brothers were the social philosopher Alfred Sohn-Rethel the Younger, and Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel (1905–1955), painter and noise imitator, who was also known under the pseudonym Freddy Dosh. One of his grandchildren is the actor Michael Hanemann .

Steinrück remained a passionate hobby painter. Some of his works were exhibited and offered for sale as part of a memorial performance organized by Heinrich George in the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt on the occasion of his death and are now part of the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin , as has been his estate since May 2016 .

Albert Steinrück's grave of honor in the Zehlendorf cemetery

Albert Steinrück's grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . Only a small inscription plate serves as a grave mark. By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the last resting place of Albert Steinrück (field 017 No. 705) has been dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since 1969 .

The Barnayweg in the Berlin artists' colony was renamed "Steinrückweg" in 1944.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Margret Heymann: A great moment in German theater. The Albert Steinrück memorial service in the State Theater on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt in 1929 . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-930916-87-8 .
  • Margret Heymann: "Life is a slide ..." Albert Steinrück, A biography of the actor, painter and bohemian (1872–1929) . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940384-57-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anonymous ( Siegfried Nestriepke ): 8 weeks high season . In: Blätter der Volksbühne Berlin , year 1928/29, issue 4, March / April 1929, pp. 18–20, here p. 18
  2. ^ Entry on Steinrück, Elisabeth (1885–1920) in Kalliope .
  3. ↑ "Albert Steinrück". An actor of extremes. , at stadtmuseum.de, accessed on May 23, 2016
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 679.
  5. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 85; accessed on March 18, 2019.
  6. ↑ Steinrückweg. In: Street names lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert ) Street names. KünstlerKolonie Berlin e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Steinrück, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and silent film actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetterburg, Waldeck
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1929
Place of death Berlin