Heinrich Schroth (actor, 1893)
Heinrich Schroth (also Heinrich Schroth-Collot , born July 4, 1893 in Mülhausen in Alsace , German Empire , † March 7, 1971 in Konstanz ) was a German theater actor , theater director and writer .
Live and act
Heinrich Schroth spent part of his childhood in Graz in Styria . Even as a teenager before the First World War , the scion of an Alsatian family of actors turned to acting in his native Mulhouse, as evidenced by an engagement in the 1912/13 season at the Mülhausen City Theater. He was then recalled from there to military service and to the front during the war. After 1918 Schroth returned to the stage. Up to the beginning of the Second World War he received engagements at the city theaters of Hanau , Heidelberg , Würzburg and Freiburg . From 1941 to 1944 he worked again in the now German-occupied Mulhouse. In these years, but also before 1939, Schroth was also active as a director several times.
After the war, Konstanz became his new center of life. In the early post-war years he and his daughter Eleonore Schroth lived under one roof at Schulstrasse 2, but while Eleonore was given a permanent engagement as an actress, her father was left without him. It was only when Eleonore took on a new commitment to Hanover in 1954 that his father Heinrich Schroth was also firmly committed to the Stadttheater and worked there until 1965. In the 1955/56 season, for example, he took on a role in the drama The Cold Light by Carl Zuckmayer .
Heinrich Schroth processed his experiences from the First World War in the pacifist anti-war novel Kamerad Tod from 1932.
Works
- Comrade death . Steinemacher-Scheuchzer. Bülach / Switzerland 1932.
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume III. Pallenberg - Singer. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. January 1971. Page 2096. ISBN 978-3-907820-29-2 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Kosch: Deutsches Theaterlexikon .
- ↑ The cold light . Description. 1955/56 season, issue 5, program of the City Theater Konstanz.
- ^ First edition "Comrade Death". Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroth, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroth-Collot, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage actor, stage director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse , Alsace , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1971 |
| Place of death | Constancy |