Otto Eggerth
Otto Eggerth (born August 18, 1866 in Passau , † September 13, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actor as well as silent film director and screenwriter .
Life
Eggerth, the son of a royal Bavarian rent clerk, was enthusiastic about the acting profession in view of the Bernhard Rüthlings game in Munich. He took lessons from court actor Heinrich Richter and first stepped onto the stage in Zurich. Then he was engaged in Regensburg, Innsbruck and Reichenberg and took part in the tour of the Munich ensemble. In 1889 he was engaged at the Stadttheater Augsburg , where he primarily played father and character roles, although he had been hired without an actual inaugural role. From 1889 he was a member of the ensemble of the Hoftheater Stuttgart until he moved to the Hoftheater Dresden in 1898 . Further engagements at German theaters, including the United City Theaters in Cologne, took him into the early 1920s . Eggerth came to Berlin in the 1920s and performed at the Thalia Theater there. He had his last proven permanent engagement in the early 1930s (up to and including the 1932/33 season) when Eggerth was engaged at the Rose Theater . After that he remained a member of the stage cooperative as an actor, but no longer accepted a firm commitment. Otto Eggerth died immediately after the start of the Second World War .
Eggerth's best-known role interpretations include Götz von Berlichingen , the Duke of Alba (in Schiller's Don Karlos ), Schiller's Wallenstein and the Richter von Zalamea in the play of the same name by Calderón.
For several years, from 1915 to 1926, Otto Eggerth also worked as an actor, director and screenwriter for silent films.
Filmography
- 1915: appearance and reality
- 1916: The belt of the dollar princess
- 1918: As in May
- 1918: Richmodis von Aducht
- 1920: your last case
- 1926: The one from the other bank
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 221, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 375
Web links
- Otto Eggerth at The German Early Cinema Database
- Otto Eggerth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Eggerth at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eggerth, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actor as well as silent film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1939 |
| Place of death | Berlin |