Otto Rouvel

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Otto Rouvel (* 1902 in Güstrow ; † August 1974 ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Otto Rouvel played school theater at the beginning of his career, later he worked at the Volksbühne in Cologne. After studying German and art and theater studies, Rouvel had engagements at the theaters in Nordhausen and Neuss, as well as for 18 years at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt , where he played the title character in Lessing's Nathan the Wise in 1971 . In 1958, Rouvel signed up to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , where, along with many other productions, he performed in the German premiere of the musical Hello, Dolly! and the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's Hunger und Durst was on stage, also in the title role of Harold Pinters Der Hausmeister in the German-language premiere on October 29, 1960. In the early 1970s, Rouvel moved to the Hamburg Thalia Theater , where he worked up to his Death was under contract. Here he was seen in Chekhov's drama Three Sisters and Electra by Jean Giraudoux .

In addition to a few works in front of the camera, Otto Rouvel had been a busy speaker in numerous radio plays since 1946, mainly produced by the Hessian and West German broadcasts . Here, as at the theater, he spoke the title character in Nathan the Wise , he was Duncan I in Macbeth , Orgon in Molières Tartuffe or John Gabriel Borkman based on Henrik Ibsen 's play of the same name .

As a pensioner on Karl Otto Mühl's Rhine promenade , Otto Rouvel stood on stage for the last time on July 30, 1974. He died in August 1974 of circulatory problems as a result of an operation, shortly before the Thalia Theater wanted to open the 1974/75 season with the said play.

Filmography

  • 1957: Montserrat
  • 1965: Now they are singing again
  • 1966: The sacred experiment
  • 1970: Like a tear in the ocean - useless journey
  • 1970: Triumph of Death or The Great Massacre Game

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1946: A game of death and love - directed by Theodor Steiner
  • 1947: Nathan the Wise - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1947: The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1948: Leo Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy - Director: Alfred Schulz-Escher
  • 1949: Tartuffe - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1949: The Plundersweiler Fair - Director: Rudolf Rieth
  • 1950: John Gabriel Borkmann - Director: Hans Kettler
  • 1950: And Pippa is dancing! - Director: Irene Kürschner
  • 1950: Don't go to El Kuwehd or The Double Death of the Merchant Mohallab - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1950: African Wedding - Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1951: Cherries for Rome - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1951: Lawrence of Arabia - Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1951: The strong triangle (1st - 3rd part) - Director: Hans Kettler
  • 1951: The Heiligenhafener Sternsingerspiel - Director: Hans Kettler
  • 1952: The locked house - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1952: The push after Ssogrebitsche - Director: Hans Kettler
  • 1952: The Citizens of Calais - Director: Wilm ten Haaf
  • 1952: Locomotive 1414 goes on vacation - Director: Josefine Klee-Helmdach
  • 1952: Kaspar Hauser - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1953: The Idiot - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1953: The Tiger Jussuf - Director: Irmfried Wilimzig
  • 1953: The Jealous One - Director: Wolf Schmidt
  • 1953: Macbeth - Director: Hans Kettler
  • 1953: Those who love the impossible - Director: Hermann Wenninger
  • 1953: Michael Kohlhaas - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1954: Pegasus sleeping car - directed by Hermann Wenninger
  • 1954: The Robbers - Director: Carlheinz Riepenhausen
  • 1954: Johann the Last - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1954: Monsieur Topaze - Director: Arno Assmann
  • 1955: The Monastery - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1955: Candide or The Best of All Worlds - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1955: Wilhelm Tell - Director: Gustav Rudolf Sellner
  • 1955: Barefoot in Athens - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1956: Revolt of the Virgins - Director: Wilm ten Haaf
  • 1956: Isabella of Egypt - Director: Carl Nagel
  • 1957: Schoolmaster Klopfstock and his five sons - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1958: Mr. Popple reaches into his pocket - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1958: Hermann and Dorothea - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1959: Life after death - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1961: Madame Curie: An Unwavering Life - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1961: Uncle Willis hats - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1961: The Man Who Killed Time - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1962: One who remained a stranger - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1962: Revision - Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler
  • 1962: The higher school - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1962: The flying doctor (1st - 3rd part and 5th and 6th part) - Director: Heinz Dieter Köhler
  • 1963: The Dilemma - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1963: Ten, twenty, thirty ... - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1963: Paris is silent - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1963: Ramona or The Machine - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1964: The pilgrimage to Jerusalem - Director: Manfred Brückner
  • 1964: Conversations and Silence - directed by Miklós Konkoly
  • 1964: The Invisible Luggage - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz
  • 1965: That is not what Tedele wanted - directed by Manfred Brückner
  • 1965: The Divine Aretino - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1965: Miserere - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1966: Schnecke am Trapeze - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1967: Hunger - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1968: Doorkeeper's allegory and palaver - Director: Dieter Hasselblatt
  • 1968: Preparation of a victim - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1968: Fools of Happiness - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1969: Guests - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1970: Goodbye, comrade, goodbye - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz
  • 1971: No man climbs into the same river twice (1st - 6th part) - Director: Heiner Schmidt
  • 1973: The Swallow - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1973: The main thing - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography at the cultural office of the state capital Düsseldorf, quoted from an obituary by Emil Fischer in the Düsseldorfer Hefte , accessed on September 10, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Otto Rouvel dies , Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 23, 1974 , accessed on September 10, 2015
  3. ↑ Christian Huther: A prejudice is shaken , Südkurier from July 1, 2013 , accessed on September 10, 2015
  4. ^ Otto Rouvel in the database of the German Historical Museum , accessed on September 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rouvel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH August 1974