Wilhelm Otto (actor)
Wilhelm Otto , real name: Wilhelm Pfennigwerth (born October 4, 1825 in Bautzen , † February 14, 1918 in Lübeck ) was a German theater actor .
Life
He began his stage career in 1845 at the Hoftheater Altenburg , then was engaged in Königsberg, Bremen, Cologne and finally Schwerin, where he worked first as an actor and bon vivant until 1887 , later in the field of character roles and batches . Three sons from his marriage to Rosa Otto-Martineck also devoted themselves to acting, two of them were Alexander and Julius Otto .
Wilhelm Otto has also made a name for himself as a trade unionist; he was one of the founders of the German Stage Members' Cooperative .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 742, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1719.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, 2nd volume, p. 1719.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfennigwerth, Wilhelm (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |