Otto Reutter - In 50 Jahres ist alles vorbei

Otto Reutter was born on April 24th in 1870 in a poor Catholic family in Gardelegen, Germany, as a son of the Ex-Ulan Andreas Pfützenreuter who was not at home, visited the Catholic primary school, absolved afterwards an education in and out of Gardelegen as a commercial assistant, ran away after finishing this and went to Berlin, earned money as a Charge at quite simple theaters, tried to be an actor and commedian at little theaters in Berlin.

His father took him away from Berlin and then he ended up being in Karlsruhe, where he joined a group of pub-singers and pub-commedians. In 1895 he dared to have his first performance as a "Salonhumorist", first performance was probably in Bern in Switzerland. In 1896 he got hired for the first time in Berlin, he really convinced the audience with his talent to recite the funny-pointed verses with easy melodies in a kind of spoken song and to be ironically funny even with his appearance. Reutter rose up to a popular star since his first performance in the "Wintergarten-Variete" of the Central-Hotel in Berlin. In the following years Reutter was able to remain on the financial and artistic top of the German little-theater-artists with the help of his huge talent and his hard work.

In 1919 after 30 years of hard work and marked by personal blows Reutter was very tired and he wanted to retire with an account that recorded millions and go back to Gardelegen. Driven on by his own ambition and the need to earn money in insecure times because he was now husband Reutter created his „work of his old times“ from the year 1919 on and by doing this he suffered from indefatigable helplessness. This work consisted of Couplets that were on humor and melancholy, worldly wisdom and mild old-age cheekyness and these Couplets are still part of the German humor for higher demands. Ill and tired of life Reutter died on March 3rd in 1931 in Düsseldorf and was buried in Gardelegen.

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