Alexander Rompler

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Alexander Römpler (also Roempler ; born March 12, 1860 in Berlin ; † December 18, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was a German-Austrian theater actor and acting teacher.

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Römpler attended school in his home town of Berlin and graduated from high school in October 1878. Then he went straight to the stage and made his debut at the capital's Ostend Theater. Römpler only remained connected to this small and insignificant venue for a short time, then he joined a touring stage, with which he mainly toured through the Silesian province. Performances took him mainly to Neisse, Schweidnitz and Warmbrunn. From 1880 until the end of the decade he became a member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt City Theater, where Römpler gradually made a name for himself. A guest performance brought Alexander Römpler to Vienna for the first time, where he made his debut at the Burgtheater on December 14, 1889 with the Holzapfel in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . The Austrian capital would remain his artistic home until his death 20 years later.

"His comfortable, sedate way of playing, his comfortable, warming humor, his sympathetic comedy, his agile facial expressions quickly made him friends", as was already stated in 1903. At the same point it was also stated that his art of representation is said to have been free of any manners. It was said that Römpler “always strives to serve the whole, does not intend to grab the audience in advance and force them to entertain, but he manages to depict real real people through his natural, healthy simplicity that is always adapted to the situation, and this great art always brings him the greatest applause ”. His humorous interpretations were praised by fathers.

In 1892 Alexander Römpler was appointed teacher at the Vienna Conservatory and two years later he was appointed court actor . As part of the Burgtheater, he also ran his own drama school, where famous mimes such as Jaro Fürth , Paul Kalbeck and Nelly Ridon learned their craft. The kidney disease Alexander Römpler, who, as it was said in a death report, also suffered from a "serious heart condition", was married to the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu since 1900 .

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the Stage, Leipzig 1903. P. 841 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the Stage, Leipzig 1903. P. 842
personal data
SURNAME Römpler, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roempler, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian theater actor and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1909
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary