Julius Brandt
Julius Brandt (born March 5, 1873 in Olomouc ; † December 26, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , theater director , film director and screenwriter .
Life
The son of a bandmaster received training in singing and acting. He made his debut in Innsbruck in 1890 . He then worked in Klagenfurt and in 1892 at the Royal City Theater in Olomouc. The next theater stations were Dresden , Teplitz , Linz and Salzburg .
In the autumn of 1898 he appeared for the first time in Vienna at the Carltheater there. In 1900 he played at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Hamburg , where he was finally promoted to theater director. In 1911 he returned to Vienna as an actor and head director of the cabaret club Hölle . In 1912 he moved to the Residenzbühne .
This year the 39-year-old made his film debut in the Musikantenlene production . He moved to Germany and tried with little success as a series criminal Charly Bill in several films. Soon he was only given small to very small roles, so that his main focus was on theater work, where he mainly worked as a director.
In 1937 he went back to Vienna and initially received leading roles in film, for example in Haydn's Last Visitor (1939) as the title character Joseph Haydn . As an important actor in the Nazi state, Brandt was included on Goebbels ' list of God- gifted people . He wrote scripts, directed, for once, and stood in front of the camera until his death in 1949.
According to Friedhöfe Wien, his grave is in the Grinzinger Friedhof in Vienna (13-2-7)
Filmography
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Web links
- Julius Brandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Klee : Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. S Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 65 .
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| SURNAME | Brandt, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1949 |
| Place of death | Vienna |