Heinrich Schroth
Franz Heinrich August Schroth ( born March 21, 1871 in Pirmasens, † January 13, 1945 in Berlin) was a German theater and film actor.
Life
Schroth made his debut in 1890 at the Prince's Theatre of Sigmaringen as Robert in the Posse and Robert Bertram of Gustav Raeder. In 1894 he went to the City Theater Augsburg, 1896 to Mainz and 1897 at the Royal Court Theatre in Hanover. From 1899 he was six years to the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Since 1905, he stood on various Berlin theaters.
During World War II Heinrich Schroth first came out as a silent film actor. He was immediately given leading roles, but had already in the twenties content with supporting roles. Schroth participated in a huge number of productions as a bit player and also took over duties in the propaganda films of the Nazi regime. In the final stages of World War II Joseph Goebbels took him in August 1944 in the Gottbegnadeten - list of actors, which he needed for his propaganda films. This Schroth was of a war effort, even on the home front, free. Schroth died five months later.
Zuckmayer rated Schroth posthumously as "one of the ringleaders of the new Nazi theater student councils, in which was subsequently raged in kind of slave rebellion against the expelled masters such as Reinhardt".
From Schroth's first marriage of actor Heinz Sailer comes (actually Heinz Schroth, 1892-1957 ). Heinrich Schroth was married in second marriage with the Austrian actress Else Rutter home from which the actor Carl -Heinz Schroth emerged. From the third marriage with the German actress Hannelore Schroth Käthe Haack, the actress comes from.