Heinrich Gotho

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Heinrich Gotho (actually Heinrich Gottesmann ; born May 3, 1872 in Dolyna , † after 1938) was an Austrian actor.

Life

Gottesmann came from Galicia , which was part of Austria-Hungary until 1918 . He received his singing and acting training in Vienna . He started his career under his birth name in Leitmeritz in 1890 . After a modest career in the provinces of Troppau (1894/95), Laibach (1896/97) and Meran (1897/98), he took on the stage name Heinrich Gotho in Reichenberg from the 1899/1900 season . Further stages were Bielitz (1901 to 1903), Budweis (1903/04) and Abbazia (1905/06).

After a stopover in Vienna in 1907 at the Wiener Ensemble , Gotho came to Germany , where he played in Eisleben in 1908 and in Elberfeld in 1909 . However, the high point of his career began in 1911 in Berlin, where Gotho appeared at the Neues Volkstheater .

Gotho also met Fritz Lang here , who brought him to film . Gotho played minor roles in several classic films of Fritz Lang, as in the Mabuse films, Metropolis , Woman in the Moon and M . In September 1933 Gotho, who was of Jewish origin, was excluded from cultural life by the National Socialists and in July 1938 from the Reichsfilmkammer .

Filmography

literature

  • 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. 140.

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personal data
SURNAME Gotho, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottesmann, Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolyna
DATE OF DEATH after 1938