Eugen Rex
Eugen Rex ( born July 8, 1884 in Berlin, † February 21, 1943 ) was a German actor.
Life
The trained draftsman took acting lessons with Max Adriano and debuted in 1905 at the Summer Theatre in Schlangenbad - Soden. 1905/ 06 he played at the Apollo Theater in Nuremberg and at the Stadttheater St. Gallen.
From 1907 to 1911 he was part of the ensemble of the Municipal Theatre of Mainz, 1911 to 1914 he was engaged at the Court Theatre Karlsruhe. From the autumn of 1914, he acted in Berlin at the theater in Königgrätzer road and also served since 1915 as an officer in the education service.
In 1916 he joined the Deutsches Theater, 1918 Metropoltheater and 1919 the theater at Nollendorfplatz. Since 1920, he has performed as a freelance actor at various stages in Berlin, some with their own songs and skits.
From now on, the work was of great importance for the film with Eugen Rex. In 1919 he also directed, but was limited thereafter almost entirely on the work as an actor. Rex embodied mainly quirky petty bourgeois, pedantic officials and public servants of all kinds
In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party. It was founded in 1933 Führerrat the Empire film student council and in 1934 the Supervisory Board of the pension institutions of the cooperative German Stage Workers. In 1935, he took over the management of Heidelberger Reich Festival.
Rex was increasingly seen at theaters in Berlin again towards the end of the thirties, so 1938/39, at the Lessing Theatre in crash at Iolanta. Even his own plays and the two operettas star of Araschi and Güldüna came to the performance. From 1940 to 1943 he worked at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. One of his last film roles was in the thriller suspected Ursula the court auditor planer glass, which is constantly distracted by his dog.
Eugen Rex is buried in the cemetery in the Kisseln in the Spandau district of Berlin.