Erich Otto

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Erich Otto (born February 19, 1883 in Berlin , German Empire ; † October 3, 1975 in Detmold , Germany ) was a German trade union official and actor .

Life

Otto made his stage debut on May 1, 1900. In the following decade he played theater in the (then) German province, including Liegnitz , Harburg (Elbe) , Stettin , Strasbourg , Metz and Nuremberg . In 1911 he arrived in Berlin, where he appeared at the Neues Volkstheater, among others. In 1919/20 Otto also took on small roles in films, including melodramas with Lu Synd (" Die Rache des Bastard", "Margot de Plaisance ").

A little later, Otto largely gave up acting and switched to the actors' union as a functionary. In 1929 Erich Otto became vice-president of the German Stage Members ' Cooperative , and from 1932 to 1950 he was its president. On May 3, 1933, the committed trade unionist who tried to protect his organization in the Third Reich from being taken over by the National Socialists was arrested, but remained de jure in office.

Honors

Filmography

  • 1919: The Bastard's Revenge
  • 1919: Margot de Plaisance
  • 1919: Marauders of the Revolution
  • 1919: The new general manager
  • 1919: When a girl is pretty
  • 1920: the big secret

literature

  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 57th year 1949, p. 44 ff. And p. 60
  • Erich Otto , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1958 of September 15, 1958, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 405.

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personal data
SURNAME Otto, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German union official and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1975
Place of death Detmold , Germany