Otto Pahlau
Otto Pahlau (born August 15, 1857 in Berlin ; † December 27, 1929 there ) was a German theater actor and director .
Life
Otto Pahlau was the offspring of an old Berlin hat maker family . Through his cousin, a dancer at the royal opera house in the capital, Pahlau entered a ballet school. Soon afterwards he was offered children's roles in plays. As a young adult, Pahlau began his theater career in Warmbrunn , then worked in Schweidnitz, Frankfurt an der Oder, Lobetheater, then at the Stadttheater in Breslau, Moscow, Nuremberg, Cologne, in Vienna at the German Volkstheater, and joined the August Junkermann tour in 1892 (It was there at the latest that he met his future wife Paula Levermann ), was a member of the Hanover City Theater in 1894 and, like his wife, from 1895 to 1898 in the Schiller Theater Association, to which he belonged until 1900. Then he followed a call to the New Theater for a year and returned to the USA in 1901, where he appeared at the German-language theater in Milwaukee . Back in Germany, Pahlau was also able to work as a director, for example at the Dresden Central Theater until the First World War . After the war, Pahlau mostly worked as a freelancer and often went on tour.
Pahlaus travels in the theater also took him abroad again and again; so he performed in Romania, France (where he made his first sound film attempts at the production company Pathé ), Belgium and, before severe illness forced him to retire from acting, in South America. "Over the years he changed from being outdoorsmen and shy lovers to being bon vivants. With a heavy heart, he gradually played himself into comedian and father roles. He was always valued by the directors for his enthusiasm for work and his conscientiousness Generally popular with his colleagues because of his amiable, always helpful manner and his indestructible sense of humor, which he did not completely lose despite years of serious illness and disappointments, " as the obituary of the German Stage Yearbook said.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 745, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 42nd year 1931, page 97
Web links
- Otto Pahlau at The Ibsen Stage Performance Database at the University of Oslo
Individual evidence
- ^ According to the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1931; Eisenberg names the year 1859
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1931, p. 97 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pahlau, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin |