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Eduard Rothauser


Lichtbild aus "Die Verrufenen" 1925

1876 - 1956

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The actor Eduard Rothauser first finished in law and was working as a lawyer for some time.
Because he was already interested in acting at a young age and run a amateur theater group as a teenager, he took some acting lessons. Afterwards he accepted the offer of Max Reinhardt who engaged him at the "Deutsches Theater" in Berlin in 1910.
In the next years he became established as a demanded stage acter and he impersonated very different roles. His sister, the opera singer Therese Rothauser, chose an artistic career as well.

Eduard Rothauser entered the film business in 1913 where he took part in movies like "Sein Rekordflug" (14), dem Stuart Webbs Film "Der Mann im Keller" (14), "Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha" (16), "Kinder der Liebe" (18), "Die Herrin der Welt" (19) and "Das Schicksal der Carola van Geldern" (19) at the beginning of his career.

He was able to impersonate many character roles in numerous movies during the 20s, among them "Der Schrein der Medici" (21), "Frauenbeichte" (21), "Der Roman einer armen Sünderin" (22), "Garragan" (24), "Lebende Buddhas" (25), "Die Verrufenen" (25), "Manon Lescaut" (26), "Menschen untereinander" (26) - for this movie he was also a co-author, "Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin" (27), "Feme" (27), "Königin Luise" (28) and "Der alte Fritz" (28).

At the beginning of the 30s he could continue his film career in the new arising sound film before the political circumstances ended his career.
To his last movies belong "Dreyfus" (30), "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (31), "Marschall vorwärts" (32) and "Was wissen denn Männer" (33).

Like many other contemporaries after 1933 the Jew Eduard Rothauser did not have a future in Germany because of the National Socialists. He emigrated to Spain but was not able to continue there as an actor. Instead he worked for his own poultry farm.

In contrast to Eduard Rothauser his sister failed to leave Germany. She was killed at the KZ Theresienstadt in 1943.


Other movies with Eduard Rothauser (Actor):
Wer hebt den Stein? (13) Und das Licht erlosch (14) Der Schienenweg unterm Ozean/Das Riesenprojekt (15) Die Prinzessin von Urbino (19) Der tote Mann (19) Stahlplatte 1517 (19) Die Hahnenfeder (19) Die Eidechse (19) Drei Dolche im Stein (19) Das schwarze Kabinett (19) Opfer seines Leichtsinns (20) Er selbst sein Gott/Sklaven der Seelen/Fürs Leben verdorben (20) Misericordia - Tötet nicht mehr (20) Niemand weiss es (20) Das Gesicht im Spiegel (20) Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha, 3. Teil (21) Der Friedhof der Lebenden (21) Der rollende Korridor (21) Die Erlebnisse einer Kammerzofe (22) Die Jagd nach der Frau (22) Und dennoch kam das Glück (23) Esterella (23) Die Kette klirrt (23) In den Krallen der Schuld (24) Hanseaten (25) Die Unehelichen (26) Schwester Veronica (27) Die heilige Lüge (27) Bobby, der Benzinjunge (29) Ein steinreicher Mann (32)

Director:
Er selbst ein Gott/Sklaven der Seelen/Fürs Leben verdorben (20)

 
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