Otto Sommerstorff
Otto Sommerstorff (actually Otto Müller ; born May 29, 1859 in Krieglach ; † February 3, 1934 in Spital am Semmering ) was an Austrian actor , comic poet and long-time employee of the "Fliegende Blätter" .
Life
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Otto Müller was born in 1859 in Krieglach, Styria, where he spent his youth and was friends with Peter Rosegger, who was also from there . He attended grammar school in Stuttgart and Vienna , where his father Carl Müller later became director general of the Kronstadt ironworks, and passed his Abitur with distinction. He then first studied law, but broke off to attend the drama school of the Vienna Conservatory - prompted by a success in a student performance of Schiller's “Robbers” in 1876 . From 1878 he worked as an actor in Leipzig (1878–1882) and Lübeck (1882–1883), taking the surname of his mother Maria Wämpl Edle von Sommerstorff as the theater name. From 1883 on he worked with Oscar Blumenthal at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , then from 1894 to 1899 at the Berlin Theater and then returned to the Deutsches Theater. In 1905 he moved to the Royal Theater , where he stayed until 1921.
Some of his comic poems, which are characterized by their love of language play, are in the Hell and Schnell collection edited by Robert Gernhardt and Klaus Cäsar Zehrer . 555 comical poems from 5 centuries printed, including The artificial diamond :
Good for him, the
stone that
is completely identical to the Demant Will one
day be destined to get on the track !
In addition to comical poems, he also published travelogues.
In 1888 he married the actress Theresina Gessner. His son was the botanist Hermann Sommerstorff (1889–1913).
Works
- Where I was and what I saw. Travel Memories (1896)
- Joke poems (1899; 6th, presumably edition 1911)
- From my rhyme room. New joke poems (Berlin 1908)
- To the wonder of the New World. Experiences in the Far West ( Illustrierte Weltall-Bibliothek Vol. 4, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1914)
- Lottchen and the Infant's Diary (1925)
Filmography
- 1920: The festival of the black tulip
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, 6th volume, pp. 459-460, digitized
- Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 4th edition 1909, p. 339
- Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century. 1903, sv
- E. Marktl: Müller, Otto. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 424.
- Richard Wrede (ed.): The spiritual Berlin. Vol. 1, 1897, sv
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Sommerstorff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Sommerstorff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Poems by Otto Sommerstorff in the German Poetry Library
- Pictures by Otto Sommerstorff in the Europeana media collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sommerstorff, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Otto (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krieglach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1934 |
| Place of death | Spital am Semmering |