Richard Treu

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Richard Treu (born February 16, 1876 ; † after 1936) was a German stage actor and theater director with a few appearances in silent films at the beginning of the 1920s.

Live and act

Treu went straight from school to the stage, received artistic training from Franz Deutschinger from the Barnayische preparatory school of the Berlin theater, and made his debut at the Pirna City Theater in 1892. During the same decade he was u. a. engaged in Szczecin. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were obligations at the municipal theaters of Mainz, Elberfeld, Chemnitz and Nuremberg. At these provincial theaters, Treu was allowed to play great, classical roles, such as Nathan the Wise, Wallenstein, Cajetan, Philip II, the hereditary forester, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Othello, the pastor Hell in Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld , the Stauffacher in Wilhelm Tell , the Leontes in Winter's Tale and the judge of Zalamea.

In the 1906/07 season Richard Treu was engaged at Berlin's Schiller Theater. Engagements followed, including to Danzig and again to Elberfeld, where he was also allowed to direct both stages. After that, he fulfilled obligations (acting and directing) at venues in Bromberg and Erfurt until the First World War . Richard Treu worked in Eisenach from 1914 to 1920, almost at the same time, and from 1916 to 1920 also in Friedrichroda . Immediately afterwards (1920/21) Treu appeared at least three times in front of silent film cameras; He produced the drama Demonische Treue together with his fellow actor Paul Hartenstein with himself and himself in the leading roles. During the last ten years of the Weimar Republic , Treu appeared primarily as a guest artist and was no longer tied to an ensemble. Since 1922 he has also directed several summer theaters and made a name for himself as a reciter and acting teacher. His track has been lost since the mid-1930s.

Filmography

  • 1920: Figaro's wedding
  • 1921: film bandits
  • 1921: Demonic Loyalty (also co-production)

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 65.
  • Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook, founded by Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall. Volume IV, Singer-Tzschoppe. 1998. p. 2650

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personal data
SURNAME Faithful, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and silent film actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1876
DATE OF DEATH after 1936