Fritz Heller (actor)

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Fritz Heller (born June 9, 1893 in Vienna ; † December 24, 1966 there ) was an Austrian actor and cabaret artist .

Live and act

Heller began at a young age as an actor in the children's theater group Duschinsky. From there, his path took him via Landshut , Offenburg and Culm to the provincial theaters before he returned to Vienna. There he played in the Viennese cabaret Hölle and at the Femina , where he was double conférencier opposite Fritz Imhoff (1891–1961) . During his Vienna years, mostly in supporting roles, he had engagements at the Raimund Theater , at the Wiener Kammerspiele (1928–1931), at the New Vienna Operetta Theater ( Reinprechtsdorfer Straße  1) founded in 1929 as the successor to the Margaretener Orpheum and at the Theater an der Wien . He also worked as a film actor. Fritz Heller got his first small role in 1929 in the silent film "Franz Lehár" (director: Hans Otto Löwenstein ).

After the annexation of Austria , he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp on November 15, 1938 . His wife was able to buy him out for 900 Reichsmarks , but the two had to leave the Reich territory . They emigrated to Shanghai via Trieste . There, too, Heller worked as an actor, worked in the European Jewish Artist Society (EJAS) created in early 1940 and was one of the most famous actors.

In 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he appeared as a theater actor and at the Simpl cabaret until his death . As a film and television actor, he mainly gave supporting roles.

Fritz Heller was buried for rest on December 29, 1966 in the Jewish cemetery in Floridsdorf .

Filmography

literature

  • Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists Part 1: A – K. Edited by Frithjof Trapp, Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß. Series: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945. Eds. Frithjof Trapp, Werner Mittenzwei, Henning Rischbieter, Hansjörg Schneider. DeGruyter Saur 1998. ISBN 978-3-110959-69-7 , p. 339
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 166.
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 236. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Heller died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1966, p. 8 , column 5 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1966
Place of death Vienna