Fritz Straßni
Fritz Straßni , also Fritz Strassni and Fritz Strassny , born Friedrich Straßny or Friedrich Stiassny , ( December 14, 1868 in Vienna - September 14, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was an Austrian actor and a celebrated character star of the Vienna Burgtheater for almost three decades .
Life
The merchant's son Friedrich Straßni - the spelling Stiassni or Stiassny is also often found - initially worked as a machine technician before he turned to studying medicine. At the age of 26, he finally decided to switch to acting.
Straßni made his stage debut on November 11, 1894 in the theater in der Josefstadt as "Riter Schnieder-Louis" in the pantomime Der Buckelhans . Strassni remained loyal to this important Viennese venue for the following years (until 1909) and worked his way from a batch actor to a recognized character actor (in antics as well as in conversational and dramatic pieces, e.g. in 1903 as "Samuel Goldfinger" in the comedy Arche Noah ) up. When there was no play, Straßni also appeared on summer stages in the spa town of Bad Ischl . From 1909 to 1938 Fritz Straßni was a member of the Burgtheater ensemble and was finally appointed chamber actor .
In the 1920s, the stage artist also appeared in a number of silent films, but changed his name slightly to Strassny. He only played supporting roles - dignitaries and sedate characters such as doctors and fathers, chancellors and professors. In the fairy tale film Dwarf Nose , the 53-year-old played a witch.
After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Jewish artist was immediately released from the Burgtheater.
On August 27, 1942, he was deported with Transport 38 Zug Da 507 from Vienna Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he was murdered two and a half weeks later under unknown circumstances.
Filmography
- 1920: Through the quarters of misery and crime
- 1920: distress signal
- 1920/21: The grinning face
- 1921: The trail in the dark
- 1921: grim reaper
- 1921: dwarf nose
- 1921: Clothes make the man
- 1922: The demon of the 'Grand Hotel Majestic'
- 1922: People call it love ...
- 1922: The limping devil
- 1922: Walpurgis magic
- 1924: Ssanin
- 1924: Jiskor
- 1924: Orlac's hands
- 1928: The divorce attorney ( The wife of yesterday and tomorrow )
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1011, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- 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. 330.
Web links
- Fritz Strassny at filmportal.de
- Friedrich Stiassny in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- Fritz Strassny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Stiassny in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straßni, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strassni, Fritz; Strassny, Fritz; Straßny, Friedrich; Stiassny, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1942 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt ghetto |