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Otto Kasten (born August 22, 1902 in Woldzegarten ; † January 8, 1989 in Taunusstein ) was a German actor , dramaturge , director and general manager and founder of the Dr. Otto Kasten and the Dr. Otto Kasten Foundation .

education

Box put in September 1923, graduating from the secondary school Güstrow from, studied from 1923 to 1928 at the University of Cologne and graduated in November 1928, the graduation to the Dr. phil. from. A transitional activity followed at the Theater Studies Institute in Cologne.

Engagements

Box took his first engagement from 1929 to 1931 as a dramaturge, director and actor in Nordhausen . From 1931 to 1937 he was engaged at the Schauspiel Leipzig , where he was first employed as an actor and then as a director and dramaturge. Kasten worked as a freelance director between 1937 and 1939 before he was senior stage director at the Braunschweig State Theater from 1939 to 1943 . From 1943 to 1945 he took over the management of the stages of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and was then employed there from 1945 to 1948 as administrative manager and deputy to the director. Kasten was most recently engaged at the Oldenburg State Theater, where he started work in May 1982.

Visitor ring and foundation

In January 1949, Kasten founded the Lübeck visitor ring , which marked the beginning of a series of similar visitor rings throughout Germany. In 1962 he founded the successor organization Visitor Ring Dr. Otto Kasten , into which all the visitor rings that had been founded up to that point were incorporated. In the same year he also called the Dr. Otto Kasten Foundation into life.

Awards

Kasten received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to the German theater in 1968 . In August 1987 he was awarded the Goethe plaque by the State of Hesse for his services to the German theater.

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck Theater World." The city theater during the years of the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . P. 98.
↑ Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck Theater World." The city theater during the years of the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 98-100, 412.

personal data
SURNAME	Box, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woldzegarten
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1989
Place of death	Taunusstein

[1] Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck Theater World." The city theater during the years of the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . P. 98.

[2] Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck Theater World." The city theater during the years of the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 98-100, 412.