Anton Otto (actor)
Anton Otto (born May 12, 1852 in Stettin , † August 1930 in Meiningen ) was a German theater actor , director , director and translator .
Life
He received his acting training from Heinrich Marr , whose last pupil he was, and then began his stage career as an apprentice at the Stadttheater in Lübeck . He was then engaged in Leipzig , Rostock , Mainz , New York City , Augsburg and Düsseldorf and later took over the management of the city theater in Krefeld, on which he also worked as a director. In 1907 Anton Otto took over the management of the Kiel City Theater together with Franz Gottscheid . From 1913 to 1918 Otto was the last director of the Strasbourg City Theater.
The actor Otto quickly made a name for himself as a character actor; Among his star roles were Iago (from Othello ), Shylock (from The Merchant of Venice ) and Mephisto (from Faust ).
As a translator and arranger of various stage plays, including Tom Taylor's tragedy The Fool's Revenge ("The Lord's Revenge"), he achieved great success.
He died in Meiningen in the summer of 1930.
He was married to his colleague Helene Kuhse .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 740, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1716.
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1931, obituary p. 126.
- ^ Anton Otto on the website of the city of Düsseldorf
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| SURNAME | Otto, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, director, director and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1930 |
| Place of death | Meiningen |