Ernst Robert Friese-Skuhra

Ernst Robert Friese-Skuhra ( July 22, 1886 in Reiterndorf near Ischl - February 2, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater actor , film distributor, screenwriter , director and writer .

Life

Friese, son of Carl Adolf Friese and Josefine Skuhra , was already on stage at the age of four in New York, where the family lived from 1889 to 1892 during an engagement with his father. When he returned to Vienna, he was employed as a child in roles at the German People's Theater in Vienna. After graduating from a community school and business academy in Vienna, he went to Cologne as secretary of the Residenztheater there, but also played smaller roles again and again.

From 1909 to 1911 he was director of an operetta tour that took him through the Orient and Italy. Since he was unfit for military service due to a stomach ailment, he spent the time of the war in the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, in addition, he was the co-founder of the Feldkinozentrale .

He was a film distributor from 1919 to 1936, after which he worked as a freelance writer.

Theatrography (selection)

1938: Lisa, behave yourself!
1942: Susi is dizzy
1942: Professor Richards operates
1943: Lies have slim legs

Filmography

1925: Viennese days faded away
1926: The Rastel binder

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 292, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938 - 1945: Handbook of a literary system, Volume 3: Upper Austria , 476 pages, Verlag Böhlau Vienna; 1st edition (July 28, 2014), ISBN 9783205795087 , p. 202 f.

Web links

Ernst Robert Friese-Skuhra in the Internet Movie Database (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Friese-Skuhra, Ernst Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian theater actor, film distributor, screenwriter, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reiterndorf near Ischl
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 1949
Place of death	Vienna