Rolf Prasch

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Rolf Prasch (born October 18, 1883 as Rudolf Prasch in Karlsruhe , † June 23, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German actor, theater director and theater director.

Life

theatre

Through his parents, the actor and director of the Theater des Westens Aloys Prasch and the actress Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg , Rolf Prasch had an early taste of the theater. Prasch received his artistic training under Max Grube . In 1904 he began to study law in Freiburg and Berlin. In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg . The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg received his doctorate in 1908 as Dr. iur. He then started his stage career at Theater Zwickau . Shortly before the outbreak of World War I , Prasch performed at the Zurich City Theater . This was followed by engagements at the Königsberg City Theater , the Kassel Court Theater and the Stuttgart State Theater . At the United Theaters he was also senior director in the late 1920s.

Then Prasch began working as a theater director. In the early 1930s he worked as artistic director and senior director at the Stadttheater Gießen . In 1933, Dr. Prasch as general manager at the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt , 1935/36 at the Krefeld City Theater . From 1936 to 1940 he was director of the Landestheater von Meiningen . In the 1939/40 season he directed Wilhelm Tell (Schiller) . He gave Vogt Gessler the hairstyle of Adolf Hitler . During the Second World War, he worked as artistic director at the Görlitzer Stadttheater until the closure of all German theaters in late summer 1944, as ordered by Goebbels . His production of Joseph von Eichendorff's Ezzelino da Romano had to be repeated six times.

Rolf Prasch began his post-war career as an actor and stage director of the city theater in Sonneberg, Thuringia . A little later he moved to the West and was finally appointed to the Flensburg Municipal Theaters to take over the management there from 1949 to 1951. After a deputy artistic director at the Götz Festival in Jagsthausen, Dr. Prasch moved to Hamburg in 1951, where he settled. After only one season as a director at the Theater am Besenbinderhof in 1952/53 Prasch withdrew into private life. Only for orders from Funkhaus Hamburg did he occasionally return to his traditional profession.

Movie

Prasch's grave,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

At the beginning of the 1920s, when the Berlin-Steglitz- based artist was doing community service, Rolf Prasch was intensely in front of the camera. The roles were mostly very small and the films were mostly artistically meaningless. Only in the Third Reich did he appear again sporadically as a film actor; Of his work here, his two depictions of Kaiser Wilhelm in the tendentious large-scale productions Robert Koch, Der Fighter des Todes and Carl Peters are remembered. His last film role until 1945 was, appropriately enough, that of a theater director in love stories . For his last film, Die Schnulze Unter den Sternen von Capri , a Hamburg film company hired him in 1953.

family

Prasch's uncle was Julius Grevenberg (1863–1927), theater actor and director. His maternal grandparents were Wilhelmine Grevenberg-Langheinz and Julius Grevenberg, both opera singers. He was married to Evelyne Prasch and had a daughter born in 1927.

Rolf Prasch died in his hometown of Hamburg and found his final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square Bh 64 (near Seehofstraße ).

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1325.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Stage yearbook 1960, which Prasch pays tribute to on his 75th birthday in the entry "October 1958"
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 36 , 597
  3. ↑ Members of the Corps Suevia to Freiburg 1815-2010, 2010, p 114
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The legal status of the wife as the heir of a partner in the case of § 139 HGB .
  5. ^ Ohlsdorf cemetery grave site
personal data
SURNAME Prasch, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prasch, Rudolf (birth name); Prasch, Hans Walter Rolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1960
Place of death Hamburg