Emanuel Reicher
Actor, Deceased Person
1849 – 1924
Who was Emanuel Reicher?
Emanuel Reicher was a German actor. He was father to actor Frank Reicher and actress Hedwiga Reicher.
After his successful acting debut in Munich in 1873 he obtained a contract with the Residenz Theater in Berlin, where he became known as one of the best German Shakespearean actors. He then took over management of the Theatre school. He played Alfred Allmers in the first performance of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf at the Deutsches Theatre, Berlin, on January 12, 1895. In 1889 he was one of the founders of the theatre society "Free Stage".
In 1907 the actor Curt Goetz studied under him. Reicher was an Esperantist, and in 1908 he appeared, along with his daughter Hedwig, in Iphigenie auf Tauris by Goethe, at the Esperanto World Congress in Dresden.
Later he went to the USA, where he was when World War I broke out. He became Director of the New York Theatre Guild, where he promoted the new style of the German theatre. He returned to Germany in 1923.
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- Born
- Jun 18, 1849
Bochnia - Spouses
- Hedwig Kindermann
( - 1881)
- Hedwig Kindermann
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Austria-Hungary
- Profession
- Died
- May 15, 1924
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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