Emil Wittig

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Emil Wittig (* 1870 ; † 1928 in Berlin ) was a German actor.

Life

Wittig's career as a theater actor began in Hanau and Berlin in 1892/1893 . After that he had engagements in Elberfeld , Preßburg , Łódź and Kronstadt, toured through Transylvania and Romania . From 1899 to 1902 he worked as an actor and director in Detmold . With his wife, the opera singer Thekla Wittig, he had their son Siegfried Schürenberg there in 1900 , who later took the maiden name of his paternal grandmother and also became an actor and voice actor.

From 1902 Emil Wittig had one-year engagements in Danzig and Krefeld . In 1905 he moved to the Princely Court Theater in Gera for a long time . One of his main roles there was that of farmer Christoph Rott in the play Faith and Homeland by Karl Schönherr (1911) staged by Oskar Borcherdt . Wittig was a hero actor with a pronounced stage presence and temperament, who, according to contemporary Gera theater critics, is said to have occasionally tended to exaggerate. He stayed in Gera until 1914, then, after his wife separated from him, he went to Berlin with his son. From 1913 he also appeared in films, u. a. as Dr. Honest in the silent film The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf . Most recently he was a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Klosterstrasse and in the spring of 1926 played at the Deutsches Theater in Juarez and Maximilian von Franz Werfel under the direction of Max Reinhardt . Wittig died in Berlin in 1928 at the age of 58.

Filmography

  • 1913: life for life
  • 1913: A sensational process
  • 1913: The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf
  • 1914: The grandfather clock
  • 1915: The confession of a convict
  • 1915: Hat No. EW 2106 V
  • 1915: William Voss
  • 1916: chains of faith
  • 1916: The old scissors
  • 1916: The Duchess's jewelry
  • 1921: The golden plague
  • 1921: The Secret of the Six Playing Cards, Part 6 - Queen of Hearts
  • 1922: The lodging house for gentlemen
  • 1928: The old Fritz - 2nd finale

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stefan Eickhoff: Max Schreck: Ghost Theater. Belleville-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-936298-54-3 , pp. 516-517.
  2. ↑ Michael Petzel: Sir John hunts the witcher: Siegfried Schürenberg and the Edgar Wallace films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-473-6 , p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
DATE OF DEATH 1928
Place of death Berlin