Jaro Fuerth

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Jaro Fürth, 1912

Jaro Fürth (born April 21, 1871 in Prague , † November 12, 1945 in Vienna ; born Edwin Fürth-Jaro ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

He completed a law degree and from late autumn 1902 took acting lessons from the Viennese court actor Alexander Römpler at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde . He had his first theater appearance in Scandinavia on a tour with plays by Henrik Ibsen .

In 1905 he received an engagement at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. In 1920 he went to Berlin and turned into a busy silent film actor. He reached the high point of his career in GW Pabst's film classic Die joudlose Gasse as Hofrat Rumfort, whose daughter was played by Greta Garbo .

As a Jew, he left Germany after Hitler came to power in 1933 and moved to Vienna. In 1938 he was excluded from the Reichstheaterkammer and deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. He lived to see the liberation and returned to Vienna, where he died soon afterwards.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. John Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
  • Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 176 f.

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  1. According to IMDb and Filmportal.de. According to Kay Less: The film's great lexicon of people was his maiden name Jaroslav Edwin Fürth .