Albert Steinrück
Albert Steinrück ( born May 20, 1872 in Weather Castle, Waldeck, † February 10, 1929 in Berlin) was a German theater and silent film actor.
Life
Steinrück began as a painter. Then he began to act, but without having undergone training. Since the early 1890s he worked at theaters in Mühlhausen, Wroclaw and Hanover, and from 1901 in Berlin. In 1906 he came to Max Reinhardt's ensemble at the German theater. From 1908-20 he was on the Court and National Theatre in Munich, where he also directed, and in the end was artistic director. In the 1920s he was again employed at various stages in Berlin.
Since 1919, Albert Steinrück was also constantly in film acting. He likes to was occupied in the roles of cruel fathers. In addition to Pink Valetti he played in Reinhold Schünzel customs film The Girl from the farm road. His colleague Paul Wegener cast him in 1920 as Rabbi Loew in The Golem: How He Came into the world. A great success was 1922/23, played by Rex Fridericus Arzén of Cserépy in which Steinrück Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia. In addition to Asta Nielsen starred in Life as a House and Hedda Gabler, in addition to Henny Porten in The Geierwally and The Golden Calf. He had 1929 in Joe May's Asphalt His last major role.
Albert Steinrück was married in first marriage with a sister Olga Schnitzler, so he was with Arthur Schnitzler, the writer of the Jung-Wien, marriage.
Steinrück remained a passionate leisure painter. Some of his works were in the context of a trip organized by Heinrich George memorial show at Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt issued on the occasion of his death and offered for sale.
He was buried in the cemetery Zehlendorf.