Georg Reimers
Georg Reimers (born April 4, 1860 in Altona , † April 15, 1936 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian actor.
Life
Georg Reimers was engaged at the Dresden Residenztheater in 1883 , and in 1885 he made his debut at the Vienna Hofburgtheater . His roles included Egmont, Karl Moor, King Lear and King Ottokar. In 1890 he was appointed court actor, in 1901 a lifetime member of the Burgtheater ensemble, and in 1922 he was made an honorary member. In 1925 he became senior director. In the same year he became a citizen of the city of Vienna . On the occasion of his fifty years at the Burgtheater, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit in 1935 . Reimers, who was on stage to the end, died of a heart attack .
Georg Reimers, father of Emmerich Reimers and Fritz Reimers , and step-great-grandfather of Christoph Waltz , is buried in a grave of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 32 C, No. 11).
In 1960, in the 19th district of Vienna Döbling the Reimer street named after him.
Filmography
- 1915: The war sponsor child
- 1916: Bogdan Stimoff
- 1917: The fate of the beautiful Susi
- 1918: The way out into the open
- 1922: Sodom and Gomorrah
- 1924: Brown Circus
literature
- Ida Rosmarie Shaw: Georg Reimers - a greatness of the Burgtheater. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1959, OBV .
- W (ilhelm) Deutschmann: Reimers Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 40 f. (Direct links on p. 40 , p. 41 ).
Web links
- Entry on Georg Reimers in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Georg Reimers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Reimers (awards) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ Events of the Week. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , September 28, 1935, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ The great actor of people: Georg Reimers' death. In: Neues Wiener Journal , No. 15233/1936 (XLIV. Volume), April 16, 1936, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Prof. Georg Reimers . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on November 5, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Reimers, Georg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian castle actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1936 |
Place of death | Vienna |