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- Birth nameLothar Max Lütcke
- Lothar Müthel was born on February 18, 1896 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Frau im Himmel (1920), Lucrezia Borgia (1922) and Destiny (1921). He was married to Marga Reuter. He died on September 4, 1964 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- SpouseMarga Reuter(1918 - 1936) (divorced, 1 child)
- Father of Lola Müthel, mother: Marga Reuter.
- German silent screen actor and stage actor/director. Trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and with the Deutsche Theater until 1917. Director of the Vienna Burgtheater, 1939-45.
- He was acting director in Frankfurt from 1951 to 1956.
- Following the Anchluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, Müthel was appointed as director of the Burgtheater in Vienna. He held that position from 1939 until the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945. Under his directorship in 1943, a notoriously extreme production of The Merchant of Venice was staged at the Burgtheater, with Werner Krauss as Shylock.
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