Edward Rothe

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Edward Rothe (born August 11, 1909 in Teplitz-Schönau , † December 7, 1978 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Edward Rothe completed the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna around 1930 and then worked as a game director in Bremen and Teplitz-Schönau, there together with Leopold Ludwig , who later became the general music director of the Hamburg State Opera for many years . Then Rothe worked in Zurich and London. In 1945, together with Hugh Carleton Greene, he played a key role in establishing the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) in Hamburg. In addition to directing at the Hamburger Kammerspiele , Rothe has staged productions in Düsseldorf, Krefeld and Basel as well as at the Vienna Theater in the Josefstadt .

Grave of the Riphahn family at Melaten cemetery

From 1950 Edward Rothe also worked extensively as a radio play director, since the end of the 1950s mainly in productions for West German Radio . In the 1960s, Rothe also directed television, wrote scripts and occasionally stood in front of the camera as an actor until the end of the 1970s, for example in the three-part film Der Strick um den Hals .

Edward Rothe was married to the actress Marlene Riphahn and last lived in Bergisch Gladbach.

He was buried in the grave of the Riphahn family at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. V, between lit. E + F).

Filmography

As a director

  • 1959: periphery
  • 1960: The house full of puzzles
  • 1960: The lady is not for the fire
  • 1961: In search of happiness
  • 1961: Tonight in Samarkand
  • 1961: Mary Rose
  • 1961: The card game
  • 1962: Heroic Comedy
  • 1963: In the shadow of war
  • 1963: My brother Alf
  • 1963: The railroad
  • 1963: The Sacco and Vanzetti case
  • 1963: The party
  • 1964: A man has just been shot
  • 1965: The spoiler - The short, disturbed life of Kaspar Hauser
  • 1967: The chalk garden
  • 1967: The death of a fellow citizen
  • 1967: The emigrant
  • 1968: Death for colored lanterns

As an actor

As an author

  • 1959: periphery
  • 1962: Heroic Comedy

Radio plays

As a director (selection)

As a speaker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geistiger Kulissenschieber , Hamburger Abendblatt dated September 4, 1953 , accessed on November 7, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Werner Knoth spoke and drew: Edward Rothe , Hamburger Abendblatt of March 2, 1961 , accessed on November 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1978
Place of death Bergisch Gladbach