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Ants Lauter (born June 23, jul. / 5. July  1894 greg. In Veski , today rural community Märjamaa , Rapla County , Estonia , † the 30th October 1973 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian actor, director and teacher. The Estonian Theater Association has given the Ants Lauter Award, named after him, to young stage actors and theater directors since 1975 .

Life and theater

Ants Lauter graduated from business school in the Estonian capital Tallinn in 1911 . He then took an office job. In his spare time he played theater in the Tallinn Trade Association . He gained his first professional stage experience in 1913 in the newly inaugurated Tallinn Theater (and Opera House) Estonia . In the opening performance on August 24, 1913, he played the Norwegian Prince Fortinbras in Shakespeare's Hamlet . Other small roles followed.

During the First World War , Lauter served as an ensign in the tsarist army from 1915 . At the front he was injured during a gas operation, so that he was transferred to the interior of Russia. From 1916 to 1918 Lauter played in the theater of the Russian city of Novgorod . With the end of the First World War and the proclamation of the state independence of the Republic of Estonia , he returned to his Estonian homeland in August 1918.

From 1918 to 1941 Lauter was (intermittently) an actor at the Estonia Theater in Tallinn. He quickly became one of the most popular actors and theater directors in Estonia between the wars . In 1920 and 1923 he traveled to Germany ( Berlin and Leipzig ), Vienna and Prague . In 1925, after the death of Karl Jungholz, he became chief actor at the Estonia Theater . He spent the years 1928/29 again in Berlin with extensive theater studies.

In 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army as a reserve officer during the (first) Soviet occupation of Estonia . He fled to the Soviet Union from the German occupation of Estonia in World War II . In 1942 he was one of the co-founders of the "State Art Ensemble of the Estonian SSR " in Yaroslavl . With the (second) Soviet occupation, he returned to Estonia in 1944.

From 1944 to 1949 Lauter worked again on the Estonia . From 1949 to 1951 he was an actor at the Tallinna Draamateater . From 1951 to 1958 he played and staged at the Vanemuine Theater in Tartu, South Estonia . From 1953 to 1955 he was artistic director of the theater. In the summer of 1958 he returned to the Estonia Theater in Tallinn as director . The following year he retired, but remained committed to the theater as a consultant.

In addition to his work as an actor and director, Lauter taught from 1938 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1950 at the Tallinn State Theater School. From 1947 to 1950 he worked there as a professor. From 1945 to 1950 and from 1969 until his death in 1973 Lauter was chairman of the board of the "Theater Association of the Estonian SSR ".

Awards

Ants Lauter has been awarded numerous prizes. In 1948 he was awarded the title of State Artist of the USSR. In 1947 and 1948 he received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR, in 1952 the Stalin Prize , and in 1956 the Order of Lenin .

Appreciation

Lauter was one of the most popular Estonian actors and directors of his generation. In his long and successful career he has staged numerous plays for the Estonian stage, including, in addition to Estonian plays, plays by Gogol , Chekhov , Brecht , Grillparzer and Shakespeare . His star roles on stage were Hamlet , Shylock , Othello , Cyrano de Bergerac , Wilhelm Tell and Peer Gynt .

Since his appearance in the silent film Mineviku varjud (1924), Lauter also played in numerous Estonian cinema and television productions.

Lauter's role in the Soviet Union is seen today by Estonian historiography as apolitical.

Private life

Lauter was married three times: from 1917 to 1925 to the actress Maria Merjanskaja (1896–1969), from 1929 to 1949 to the actress and director Erna Villmer (1889–1965) and from 1949 to the actress Heli Viisimaa (1918–1996) .

Ants Lauter is buried in the Tallinn Forest Cemetery ( Metsakalmistu ).

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 229

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.opera.ee/vana-maja-malestusmark-ja-estoonlaste-jaljerada/
personal data
SURNAME Louder, Ants
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian actor, theater director and educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Veski , now the rural municipality of Märjamaa , Rapla County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1973
Place of death Tallinn