Fritz Reiff

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Fritz Reiff (born February 5, 1888 , † January 18, 1953 in Munich ) was a German stage and film actor .

Fritz Reiff as "Holy Nepomuck" at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig

Live and act

Reiff was already on stage at the age of 20 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and was a member of the ensemble at Louise Dumont's Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus before the outbreak of the First World War . After the war he found himself in Leipzig, where he was able to gain his first experience in front of the camera as a silent film actor in the early 1920s, only to return to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in the course of the same decade. From the beginning of the 1930s, Fritz Reiff worked at Breslau's Lobe and Thalia Theater before he reached Berlin in 1931 to take up a position at the German Art Theater. For the 1932/33 season, Fritz Hirsch then brought him to the Schiller Theater, which he directed. The takeover of power by the National Socialists made Reiff leave the capital again, and he went to Otto Falckenberg in Munich, who committed Reiff to the Kammerspiele of the theater he directed. Fritz Reiff stayed there for the rest of his life and played supporting roles such as Kottwitz in “ The Prince of Homburg ”, the house friend in “ The Imaginary Sick ” or the servant in “ Bunbury ”.

Fritz Reiff only returned to the camera shortly before he began his time in Berlin. His first sound film role was that of the French socialist and later peace fighter Jean Jaurès in Richard Oswald's Dreyfus - film adaptation from 1930. From then on, he was seen with small and medium-sized roles as a person of respect, dignitary and dignitary: He played a count in “Der Katzensteg”, a technical manager in the canceled science fiction film Weltraumschiff I starts , a staff officer in “ Das Fräulein von Barnhelm ”, a banker in “ The Dark Day ” as well as several judges such as in “ The Eternal Source ” and Venus in court . In addition, Reiff was used early on in the creation of German versions of foreign films as a voice actor, for example in 1934/35 in the British adventure story Die Scharlachrote Blume .

Ailing in the last years of his life, the old artist found one or the other radio task; For example, in 1950 he spoke to the judge in the play “ State of Siege ”, a production by his Kammerspiele boss Hans Schweikart . Fritz Reiff died at the beginning of 1953 at the age of almost 65 from the consequences of an operation.

Filmography

literature

  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (ed.): German Stage Yearbook 1954, obituary p. 83

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personal data
SURNAME Reiff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1888
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1953
Place of death Munich