Otto Zedler

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Otto Zedler (born March 27, 1893 in Potsdam , † May 1, 1978 in Teltow ) was a German actor.

Life

Otto Zedler came from a humble background. He attended elementary school, broke off his apprenticeship in Potsdam and worked as a telegram deliverer for the Reichspost. In 1917 he was drafted as a soldier and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on the Western Front . He took acting and singing lessons and got his first engagement at the municipal theater in Neisse in 1920 . Every year until 1932 he had changing engagements in Frankfurt an der Oder , at the Stralsund Theater , in Guben , Bamberg , Sondershausen , and in 1926/27 at the Wallner Theater in Berlin , Osnabrück and Lübeck . From 1932 he was permanently engaged in Essen , where he was promoted to operetta director . His popularity in the city led to his being elected prince of an Essen carnival society, which the Essener Anzeiger reported on January 13, 1936. On March 31, 1936, Zedler was arrested as a homosexual for an offense against Paragraph 175 ; a statement had been forced out of the previously arrested ensemble member Peter Roleff . As part of the campaign against homosexuals , he and his partner were sentenced to one year in prison at the end of 1936, after which they were banned from living together and his presence in Berlin was checked by the police.

Stumbling block at the Grillo Theater in Essen

After the end of the war he found employment again as a director and actor in the operetta field in Berlin theaters. From 1947 to 1951 he was the director of the Brandenburg State Theater . In the 1950s he had engagements at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Berliner Volksbühne in East Berlin . The DEFA employed him as a film actor in supporting roles in A Polterabend , Rivals at the Wheel , Company Ölzweig , Die Glatzkopfbande , Weimar Pitaval , The Fan of Madame de Pompadour , His Children and Alfons Zitterbacke .

He lived in Kleinmachnow .

In 2014, to commemorate Otto Zedler, a stumbling block was laid in front of Essen's Grillo-Theater by the Essener Lesbian and Gay Forum as part of the review of the so-called "theater scandal" Essen for the 2014 Hischfeld Days in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nicolai Clarus, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (ed.): Man for man: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area , 2010, pp. 1307-1309
  2. ↑ Nicolai Clarus, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (ed.): Man for man: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area , 2010, pp. 991–992
  3. ↑ Wolfgang D. Berude: "They are enemies of the state and the people". A brochure on the persecution of homosexuals in Essen from 1936 (PDF) , accessed on December 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Zedler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and operetta director
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1978
Place of death Teltow