Otto Henning (actor)

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Otto Henning (born January 27, 1884 in Wiesbaden ; † February 21, 1950 there ) was a German theater and film actor , theater director and general manager .

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The son of an authorized signatory at the Hoechst chemical factory was supposed to study chemistry at his father's request, but he began his acting career as early as 1902 in Trier. This was followed by stage positions in Bromberg , Nuremberg and Riga before Ludwig Barnay signed him to Hanover in 1909 . After seven years, Henning followed a call to Stralsund , where he worked as director and artistic director from 1916 until the end of the war in 1918. In 1918/19 Otto Henning worked as chief director at the New Theater in Frankfurt am Main and in 1919/20 as theater director and director in Marburg . In 1920 he followed a call to the city theater in Altona near Hamburg, where Henning worked as deputy director and chief director.

After only one season, Henning settled in Basel in 1921 . There he was again active as artistic director and chief director until 1925. Born in Wiesbaden, he took the same position at his next theater station in Barmen-Elberfeld . After three years, Henning returned to Altona in 1928, where he worked as artistic director and senior director, before the Nazis who had just come to power quickly removed him in 1933. Henning remained severely underemployed for political reasons in the following years; Only when he was appointed director of the small Plaza Theater in Berlin did his cold position come to an end in 1936. After 1938 Otto Henning worked mostly as a guest artist (acting as well as directing).

His greatest theatrical successes were achieved by Otto Henning a. a. with King Lear, King Philip, Mephisto and John Gabriel Borkman. From 1937 to 1942 Otto Henning was also a very busy film actor. In numerous, in some cases politically strongly tendentious, productions of the Third Reich, he embodied supporting roles, predominantly grave people: These were dignitaries such as a yacht captain, a medical officer, a minister, a general and a court chairman in Veit Harlan's notorious Jud Suess film.

At the end of the war in 1945 Otto Henning was entrusted with the management of the career advice center in Berlin; In this role, he was responsible for the young actor's examination. In 1946 Henning was appointed by the Hessian Prime Minister Karl Geiler to lead the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden . General manager Henning took over this task until 1949. "It was a year of rebuilding, full of hardships and worries, but also crowned with great successes", as an obituary in the 1951 German Stage Yearbook said. A little later you can read in the same place: “The new upswing in the state theater, especially the opera, which he headed, was also a credit to his hometown”.

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  1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 59th year 1951, p. 84
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor, theater director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1950
Place of death Wiesbaden