Fritz soot

Friedrich "Fritz" Russ , alternative spelling Fritz Russ (born March 31, 1864 in Vienna , Austria , † after 1928) was an Austrian theater and film actor in the German silent film industry .

Live and act

Soot was already on stage with children's roles at the age of eight, in Vienna's theater in der Josefstadt. In the same year 1872 he made a guest appearance in Germany for the first time with a special children's troupe and toured Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Munich and Prague, located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the age of 18, Fritz Russ started his first permanent engagement as a professional actor and played at the Vienna Volkstheater alongside Rudolf Schildkraut . After two years there, he was drafted into the military and served there the usual three years. During this time he was assigned to perform at the imperial court and sang before Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg. As an accompaniment, Russ could fall back on operetta and waltz king Carl Michael Ziehrer .

Back in civil life, soot was brought to Pressburg (today: Bratislava) where he met the young Max Reinhardt. Finally, at the turn of the century, Fritz Russ received his first permanent engagement in Berlin, which brought him to the Metropol-Theater in the German capital. He appeared in musical pieces à la “ The Rose of Stambul ” and mostly played comical parts. Other Berlin theaters where Russ worked in the following years were the Trianon Theater , the Lessing Theater and the Small Theater.

Before the First World War, Fritz Russ joined the film and was initially cast mainly by Harry Piel , during the First World War Franz Hofer also resorted to Russ. In 1919 he played the Leibfiaker Bratfisch in Rolf Randolf's controversial Mayerling film, and in the early 1920s Russ worked again with Piel. With the role of a clown in a circus drama, Fritz Russ ended his cinema career in the winter of 1927/28.

Filmography

• 1913: people and masks
• 1915: The lost lot
• 1915: The secret of D. 14
• 1915: The common thread
• 1916: The orphanage child
• 1916: The man whom fate sent
• 1917: Miss Pfiffikus
• 1918: Lieutenant Mucki
• 1918: The patchouli mouse
• 1919: Crown Prince Rudolph or: The Secret of Mayerling
• 1919: pogrom
• 1919: The Apaches
• 1920: The hand of the strangler
• 1920: The Swarm of Higher Daughters
• 1921: The rider without a head
• 1921: The Prince of the Mountains, two parts
• 1921: Lotte Hagedorn
• 1922: You girl from the Rhine
• 1922: At the well in front of the gate
• 1922: The black envelope
• 1923: The common thread
• 1923: I had a comrade
• 1924: The homeless
• 1924: Garragan
• 1925: The road to oblivion
• 1925: Life's dice game
• 1927: The convict cavalier
• 1927: Parentless
• 1927: Conqueror of 1000 dangers
• 1928: The last gala performance of the Wolfsohn Circus

literature

• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 157.

Web links

• Fritz Ruß in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fritz Russ at filmportal.de