Emanuel Reicher (18 June 1849 – 15 May 1924) was a

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actor. He was father to actors

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and

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and actress

Hedwiga Reicher Hedwiga Reicher (Born Hedwig Reicher; 12 June 1884 – 2 September 1971) was a German actress. Her performances on Broadway were credited with the original spelling of her first name. Reicher was christened Hedwig, but she altered the spelling ...

. 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 ''

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'' at the Deutsches Theatre, Berlin, on January 12, 1895. In 1889 he was one of the founders of the theatre society "Free Stage" (Freie Bühne). In 1907 the actor

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studied under him. Reicher was an

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, and in 1908 he appeared, along with his daughter Hedwig, in ''

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'' by

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, 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.

Family life

Emmanuel Reicher married firstly the opera singer

Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (1853–1883) was a German opera singer whose range covered both soprano and contralto. She trained as a pianist until she was 15 when her father recognized her singing abilities. In 1871, she was engaged by the Court T ...

(15 July 1853 – 2 June 1883): their son was the actor

. After Hedwig's death he married Lina Harf: their children were

and Elly (b. Berlin 1893), who all worked as actors.

Selected filmography

* '' I.N.R.I.'' (1923)

References

1849 births 1924 deaths German Esperantists German male stage actors 19th-century German male actors 20th-century German male actors {{Esperanto-stub