Rudolf Rittner
Rudolf Rittner (* June 30, 1869 in Weissenbach, Austria - Hungary, † February 4, 1943 Weissbach, County Freiwaldau, German Empire ) was a German stage and film actor.
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Rudolf Rittner was the son of the mayor Franz Rittner. The age of twelve he left his birthplace in the Sudetenland, to study music at the conservatory in Vienna, 1887, he moved there to drama school without his parents' knowledge, who opposed the new appointment skeptical. After completing his education, he worked at the Residenz Theater in Berlin, appeared in Cologne and Hamburg in 1894, and came again to Berlin, this time to the German theater, where he worked for ten years until he moved to the Lessing Theatre.
In 1893, he starred in the role of Hans in the world premiere of Max Half piece with youth. Later, he was known primarily as an actor in the works of Gerhart Hauptmann, as Fuhrmann Henschel, Moritz as hunters in the Weber and as Florian Geyer. In this role, portrayed him Lovis Corinth in 1906. Florian Geyer was also the Rittner should help to glory, he had only to make a success of the previously little-noticed piece by his acting talent. 1907, at the age of 38 years standing at the peak of his career, he left to everyone's surprise, the theater, and retired to his birthplace, to devote himself to the peasant working on his farm. Soon thereafter he was Board member of the law firm of German Art Theatre.
1922 Rittner returned back to the public. In the silent film The Count of Charolais he played the captain Romont. Two years later, he was seen as Rüdiger von Bechelaren in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen popular success in 1927 when Hans Sachs in The Master of Nuremberg, to which he himself had co-authored the screenplay. After his last film, the German - Swedish co-production fathers and sons, he retired in 1930 at age 61 finally into the private life.
Rudolf Rittner died on the morning of February 4, 1943 on his farm in Weissbach. His death called again reaching far his acting achievements in memory. Already at that time he was known to the general public for the most part only of Corinth's portrait of Florian Geyer. Rittner left to posterity two stage plays, retrieval (1901) and the minstrel Drama fools gloss ( 1906).