Eduard Rothauser

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Eduard Rothauser (born December 8, 1876 in Budapest , † January 24, 1956 in Barcelona ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of a German-speaking businessman already led a children's theater group in Budapest. After receiving his doctorate in law, he first worked as a lawyer. In 1910 Max Reinhardt brought him to the German Theater in Berlin. There he worked in stage classics such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet . He mostly played serious, benign characters.

From 1913, interrupted by the First World War, he worked as a film actor. In 1919 he played the lawyer Lundt in Lupu Pick's film against the death penalty, Misericordia - Do not kill anymore! In the Blücher biography Marschall Vorwärts with leading actor Paul Wegener , he embodied the Emperor Franz in 1932 . Once he also appeared as a script co-author: in 1926 he wrote the social study People Among Each Other with the director Gerhard Lamprecht, which deals with the togetherness and opposition of the residents of a Berlin apartment building. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Rothauser, of Jewish origin, emigrated to Barcelona, ​​where he ran a poultry farm. His sister was the opera singer Therese Rothauser .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 431, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

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