Fritz Pook
Fritz Pook ( October 19, 1857 in Berlin - September 14, 1944 in Strasbourg , Alsace) was a German theater actor and director .
Life
After having been a merchant for four and a half years, Pook began his theater career in 1877. He worked as an actor in Jeßnitz, Ohlau, Prenzlau, Liegnitz, Posen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Stettin, Magdeburg and most recently in Düsseldorf (1888–1900), made a strong impact in his youthful comic singing roles and took up a first position there.
From 1891 he was director of the Badentheater in Helmstädt, from 1897 of the Princely Theater in Pyrmont, took over the Stadttheater Dortmund in 1900 under the most difficult circumstances, and it was to his decisive merit to have raised this artistically almost decayed stage in a dignified manner. Pook was also director of the city theater in Bochum.
His artistic life after 1902 is largely unknown. In the 1910/1911 season, Pook was theater director at the Stadttheater Frankfurt (Oder).
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 783, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch: Theatergeschichtliches year and address book , 56th year 1945/48, p. 31.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pook, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg , Alsace |