Otto Lang (actor)

Otto Lang (born August 24, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 24, 1984 in Weimar ) was a German actor and university professor.

Life

Lang, the son of a gardener, studied at the Frankfurt drama school from 1924 to 1926 , then had engagements in Remscheid , Herford , Frankfurt am Main and Bamberg . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . From 1934 to 1939 he worked in Hildesheim and then became game director in Gleiwitz .

After 1945 he became a member of the KPD / SED and from 1947 taught at the German Theater Institute in Weimar . From 1951 he was a member of the State Commission for Art Affairs . From 1953 to 1958 he was rector of the Leipzig Theater Academy . From 1958 to June 1973 he was general manager of the German National Theater in Weimar . From 1958 he was a member and from 1963 to April 1973 Vice President of the German Shakespeare Society . At times he was a member of the Erfurt district assembly .

Lang was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1966 and in silver in 1971. Lang died in Weimar at the age of 77.

Filmography

theatre

Director

1950: Julius Hay : Comrade Mimi ( German Theater Institute Weimar)
1953: Julius Hay: Energy ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
1959: Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos ( German National Theater Weimar )

actor

1965: Friedrich Schiller: Wallenstein (Octavio) - Director: Fritz Bennewitz ( German National Theater Weimar )

literature

Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 278.
Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff: In Memoriam Otto Lang. In: Shakespeare Yearbook. 121, 1985, pp. 7-8.

Web links

Otto Lang in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 192.
↑ Art in the fight for Germany's future . In: Neues Deutschland , September 1, 1951, p. 1.
^ Shakespeare Society receives a new statute . In: Neues Deutschland , April 9, 1973, p. 2.
↑ In memory of Professor Otto Lang . In: Neues Deutschland , June 27, 1984, p. 4.

personal data
SURNAME	Lang, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1984
Place of death	Weimar

[HW2011-1] Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 192.

[2] Art in the fight for Germany's future . In: Neues Deutschland , September 1, 1951, p. 1.

[3] Shakespeare Society receives a new statute . In: Neues Deutschland , April 9, 1973, p. 2.

[4] In memory of Professor Otto Lang . In: Neues Deutschland , June 27, 1984, p. 4.