Emanuel Reicher was a German

Germans

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 actor. He was father to actor Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher , was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer.-Early life:Frank Reicher was born in Munich, Germany, the son of actor Emanuel Reicher and Hedwig Kindermann, a popular German prima donna who was a daughter of the famous baritone August Kindermann...

 and actress Hedwiga Reicher

Hedwiga Reicher

Hedwiga Reicher was a German actress, sister to actor Frank Reicher, and daughter to actor Emanuel Reicher. -Selected filmography:*The Leopard Lady as Fran Holweg.*True Heaven as Madame Grenot....

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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 Little Eyolf 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 Curt Goetz

Curt Goetz

Curt Goetz , born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss-German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world. Together with his wife Valérie von Martens he acted in his own plays and also filmed them...

 studied under him. Reicher was an Esperantist

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, and in 1908 he appeared, along with his daughter Hedwig, in Iphigenie auf Tauris

Iphigenie auf Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις, Iphigeneia en Taurois, by Euripides. Goethe's chosen Latinized title for his work, however, is a false analogy to the title of Euripides's tragedy, which really means "Iphigenia...

 by Goethe, 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.