Paul Otto (actor)

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Paul Otto on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Paul Otto (born February 8, 1878 in Berlin as Paul Otto Schlesinger ; † November 30, 1943 there ) was a German actor .

Life

Paul Otto first began a commercial apprenticeship, but took acting lessons on the side. He made his stage debut in 1895. After engagements in Halle , Wiesbaden and Hanover , he came to Berlin in 1906 , where he played on almost all major stages until his death. Since 1910 Otto - often directed by Max Mack , Alwin Neuss and Georg Jacoby - has also been in front of the camera in films, and since 1911 he has repeatedly directed films. His preferred role as a film actor was the gentlemen: officers and diplomats, judges, professors, but also unscrupulous seducers. He was a partner of Asta Nielsen in Die Filmprimadonna und Vordertreppe - Backstairs and the railway inspector in Lupu Pick's chamber drama film Shards (1921). Paul Otto also worked as a screenwriter and director. In the 1919 film Erdgift , which he wrote and directed , he processed motifs from Frank Wedekind's drama Erdgeist with some expressionist stylistic devices. After 96 silent films , he effortlessly switched to sound films .

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Paul Otto turned increasingly to theater work. He also appeared in numerous films, but always in supporting roles. His Jewish background initially remained undiscovered. In 1937 he was even appointed state actor due to his stage work at Heinz Hilpert's German Theater, which was valued by the National Socialists , and in 1942 he took over the management of the stage department of the Reichstheaterkammer .

By chance, Paul Otto's Jewish ancestry was discovered in the autumn of 1943. In order to forestall a deportation, he committed suicide together with his wife, the actress Charlotte Klinder -Otto.

His grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography

as a performer, unless otherwise stated

  • 1910: Wrestling competition
  • 1910: Arsène Lupine versus Sherlock Holmes : The old secretary
  • 1911: Bleeding to death - director
  • 1911: Sherlock Holmes versus Professor Moriarty. Series 1: The Heir to Bloomrod
  • 1911: victim of infidelity
  • 1911: Die Diebin - director
  • 1911: The Curse of Sin
  • 1911: Arsène Lupin's death
  • 1912: Self-directed - direction, screenplay
  • 1912: Guilty - director
  • 1912: Riddle of the Heart - Director
  • 1912: The Flight for Life [T2] - director, screenplay
  • 1912: The Brand of Your Past - Director
  • 1913: rights of the heart
  • 1913: In the Twilight - Director, Actor
  • 1913: The film prima donna
  • 1915: front and back stairs
  • 1915: Guido, the first - director
  • 1915: Guido in Paradise - director
  • 1915: Dorrit's chauffeur - director
  • 1915: The eighth commandment. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
  • 1916: Maria - director, actor
  • 1916: Komteß Else - director
  • 1916: Florian's aunt - director
  • 1916: Else's last tutor - director
  • 1916: Dorrits Eheglück - director
  • 1916: The Twin Sisters - director
  • 1916: The living dead
  • 1916: The swamp
  • 1916: The Right of the Firstborn - Direction
  • 1916: The green mask's confession
  • 1917: Two Blue Boys - screenplay
  • 1917: The Spider - screenplay
  • 1917: The daughter of Countess Stachowska - screenplay
  • 1917: Die Fremde - screenplay
  • 1917: The Power of Michael Argobast - screenplay
  • 1917: The Fist of Fate - screenplay
  • 1917: The man in the Havelock - screenplay
  • 1917: The violin player
  • 1917: The Stranger - screenplay
  • 1917: The Game of Death - screenplay
  • 1917: The girl next door - screenplay
  • 1918: Katinka - director, screenplay
  • 1918: Emilia Galotti
  • 1919: The Path That Leads to Damnation, Part 2. Hyenas of lust
  • 1919: Vengeance is mine
  • 1919: Bettler GmbH
  • 1919: the eternal riddle
  • 1919: morality and sensuality. Germinating life. III
  • 1919: Wolkenbau and Flimmerstern
  • 1919: last love
  • 1919: crucify them! - script
  • 1919: Kinderfreuden - directed
  • 1919: Erdgift - director, screenplay
  • 1919: The island of the lucky ones
  • 1919: Death and Love - director, actor, screenplay
  • 1919: Brutal - director, actor
  • 1920: artist whims - director, camera
  • 1920: Judith Trachtenberg
  • 1920: The black rose from Cruska
  • 1920: The sun of Asia
  • 1920: The Public Prosecutor - Director
  • 1920: The skeleton of Mr. Markutius
  • 1920: Poor Violetta
  • 1921: The man without a name
  • 1921: Ash Wednesday
  • 1921: His Excellency of Madagascar. 1. The girl from abroad
  • 1921: His Excellency of Madagascar. 2. Stubbs, the detective
  • 1921: Shards
  • 1921: The black Paula
  • 1921: The sins of the mother
  • 1921: The Lou from Montmartre
  • 1921: The heiress of Tordis
  • 1922: Tabea, get up!
  • 1922: Make-up (Sigrid's career)
  • 1922: Miss Rockefeller films
  • 1922: One shouldn't think it possible or Maciste and the Javanese
  • 1923: Inge Larsen
  • 1922: The tailoring trade
  • 1922: The power of temptation
  • 1922: The escape into marriage. The great flirt
  • 1923: your misstep
  • 1923: The Sagossa Adventure
  • 1924: Thamar, the child of the mountains
  • 1924: Girls You Don't Marry
  • 1924: Does the woman have to become a mother?
  • 1924: Comedians of Life
  • 1925: Hussar fever
  • 1925: women who stray from the path
  • 1925: women who are often not greeted
  • 1925: The road to oblivion
  • 1925: The woman of forty years
  • 1925: The gentleman without an apartment
  • 1925: The old ballroom. 1st chapter
  • 1925: The old ballroom. Part 2
  • 1926: Forbidden love
  • 1926: Potsdam, the fate of a residence
  • 1926: love
  • 1926: women of passion
  • 1926: The hunt for the bride
  • 1926: The Frauengasse in Algiers
  • 1927: Only a Viennese woman kisses like this
  • 1927: primary love
  • 1927: Higher Daughters
  • 1927: Grand Hotel ...!
  • 1927: The rolling ball
  • 1927: The secret power
  • 1927: The student countess
  • 1927: The Sand Countess
  • 1927: The Lorelei
  • 1927: The eighteen year olds
  • 1927: The fight of Donald Westhof
  • 1927: The Fate of One Night
  • 1927: Benno stand-up collar
  • 1928: Spelunke
  • 1928: The escape from love
  • 1928: Rothausgasse
  • 1928: The Tsarevich
  • 1928: The robbery of the Sabine women
  • 1928: Attention dowry hunters
  • 1929: Night figures
  • 1929: Section 173 of the St.GB Incest
  • 1929: Trust of the thieves
  • 1929: saint or prostitute, side bailiffs
  • 1929: The love of the Rott brothers. Will-o'-the-wisps
  • 1930: Dancers wanted for South America
  • 1930: Burglary in the Reichenbach bank
  • 1930: a tango for you
  • 1930: Central arrest for three days
  • 1930: The flower woman from Lindenau
  • 1931: Yorck
  • 1931: laundry - washing - welfare
  • 1931: Rasputin
  • 1931: Kitty stumbles into happiness
  • 1931: Cadets
  • 1931: It's getting better again
  • 1931: Elisabeth of Austria
  • 1931: The other side
  • 1931: The August Schulze affair
  • 1931: The captain of Köpenick
  • 1931: The ball at Raffkes
  • 1932: spies at work
  • 1932: Tell me who you are
  • 1932: love affair
  • 1932: Kiki
  • 1932: Cavaliers from Kurfürstendamm
  • 1932: Yes, the soldier's love is loyal
  • 1932: Hasenklein can't help it
  • 1932: overnight happiness
  • 1932: The invisible front
  • 1932: The dancer from Sanssouci
  • 1932: They - or none
  • 1932: The secret of Johann Orth
  • 1933: The Leuthen Choral
  • 1933: spies at work
  • 1933: Sunbeam
  • 1933: Novel One Night
  • 1933: Child, I look forward to seeing you
  • 1933: love affair
  • 1933: The Tsarevich
  • 1933: The police report reports ...
  • 1934: Between two hearts
  • 1936: final chord
  • 1936: escapade. His official wife
  • 1936: The castle in Flanders
  • 1936: Togger
  • 1937: Michael company
  • 1937: The secret of Betty Bonn
  • 1938: What to do, Sibylle?
  • 1938: Pour le Mérite
  • 1938: Small district court
  • 1939: I refuse to testify
  • 1939: Riots in Damascus
  • 1939: Star of Rio
  • 1939: Robert Koch, the fighter against death
  • 1939: passion
  • 1939: The Beloved
  • 1939: The woman without a past
  • 1939: The governor
  • 1939: D III 88
  • 1940: The Glenarvon Fox
  • 1940: Falstaff in Vienna
  • 1940: Trenck, the Pandur

literature

  • AOB [= Alexandra Obradowić]: Paul Otto - actor, director, author. In: Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph Lexicon for German-language film. Delivery to 31st edition text + kritik, Munich 1999.
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 268.
  • Ulrich Liebe: adored, persecuted, forgotten . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 2005. ISBN 3-407-22168-1 , pp. 240–241

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personal data
SURNAME Otto, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlesinger, Paul Otto (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1943
Place of death Berlin