Ottmar Strasser

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Ottmar Strasser (born November 15, 1905 in Fehértemplom ( German  Weißkirchen ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † January 22, 2004 in Dornstadt ) was a German actor , comedian , character actor and director at the German State Theater Timişoara .

Life and career

Ottmar Strasser was born in the small town of Bela Crkva in Banat . His father was an officer in the kuk border regiment there , his mother, Elisabeth Ptach, a Banat Swabian from Bela Crkva. In 1919 the family moved to Vienna , where Strasser attended the Reinhardt Seminar . He made his debut in the operetta Madame Pompadour in the Bohemian town of Brüx . He was also seen in smaller roles in Saaz and Budweis before he settled in Sibiu in 1927 , where he initially worked as an employee of the “Neppendorfer Zeitung”. When Gustav Ongyerth founded the German State Theater in Sibiu in 1933 , Ottmar Strasser was there from the start. There his theater career began. His first role at the Stadttheater was that of the hunter in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell .

actor

Strasser played the "Schreiber Licht" in Kleist's Broken Krug , the youth in the operetta "Das Mädel aus dem Kokeltal" by Richard Oschanitzky , with whom he made 50 performances across Germany, and "Eugen Klapproth" in Pension Schöller , the actor who cannot pronounce an "L". On the occasion of a tour of Germany in 1939 he was awarded the Schiller plaque from the Mannheim National Theater .

As a member of the German minority in Romania, Strasser was deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor between 1945 and 1949 . When he returned home from forced labor, he first worked in the Hunedoara smelting combine until he was able to practice his profession again in 1953 with the establishment of the Timisoara German State Theater. Here he demonstrated his talent and skills. In addition to being a distinctive comedian, he was also an excellent character actor known for his precision in facial expressions, gestures, and diction. Strasser was also a gifted copywriter for humorous lectures, satires, songs and humor, which were expressed in the popular "Colorful Evenings" of the Timisoara State Theater.

From “Hofmarschall Kalb” in Schiller's Cabal and love for Molière's masterpiece The Miser , from the dark large farmer in Hans Kehrer's “Sunken Fields”, to the travesty role of “Madame Chirita”, success followed success. And then came his masterpiece: the “Schneider Zwirn” in Nestroy's Lumpazivagabundus .

Director

Strasser took over the direction of Anatoli Sofronow's play "Because it doesn't work differently" (1954), Friedrich Wolf's "Mayor Anna" (1954) and Molière's comedy The Imaginary Sick (1954). The first variety show “Laughing is healthy” was also staged by Strasser. In 1956 he was the director of Mihail Sebastian's “Latest News”, 1958 in Molières Geizigem, 1962 in Kleist's Broken Jug and in “Four Under One Roof” by Smirnowa and Kreindl, in 1969 in Gogol's “Diary of a Fool”. On November 11, 1970, a farewell ceremony in honor of Ottmar Strasser took place in the hall of the Romanian Opera Timisoara.

Ottmar Strasser had lived in Germany since 1970 after he accepted an invitation as a pensioner and on that occasion made the decision not to return. With a public hunger strike in Munich , he forced an exit permit for his family members. In Germany he played at the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach as an actor, but together with his son Horst (1936–2017) he founded a small traveling theater, the “Strasser-Bühne”, with which he played with great success in various cities in Germany, mostly in front of fellow countrymen from the Banat and Transylvania .

Awards

  • Schiller plaque from the Mannheim National Theater (1939)
  • Order of Honored Artist of the People's Republic of Romania (1964)
  • Romanian Order of Culture (1967)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Horst Fassel: The German State Theater Timişoara (1953-2003). From supraregional bearer of identity to the experimental theater , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6
  2. ↑ a b sevenbuerger.de , Hanns Schuschnig: Ottmar Strasser (1905-2004) - a gifted actor
  3. ↑ a b c nauy.de , Ottmar Strasser
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, comedian, character actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehértemplom , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2004
Place of death Dornstadt