Martin Berliner

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Martin Berliner (born January 12, 1896 in Vienna , † January 26, 1966 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor .

Live and act

Berliner received his artistic training at Vienna's State Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In 1920 he began his first engagement at Berlin's Volksbühne . Then Berliner played at the Würzburg City Theater as well as in Regensburg and Munich , where he worked at the Kammerspiele . He also directed in the Czech Mährisch Ostrau , where he appeared at the Deutsches Theater. Since the beginning of the 30s, Martin Berliner played mainly on the stages of his hometown Vienna (Die Komödie, Deutsches Volkstheater ). At the same time made her debut in 1931 in Berlin Otto Preminger The great love for the camera.

After the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany, the Jew had to leave Vienna immediately. He left for the USA via France at the turn of the year 1938/39. Based in Los Angeles since the end of 1941 , Berliner appeared in a number of films over the next ten years in small supporting roles, including the anti-Nazi productions Hostages , The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler and Fred Zinnemann's Anna Seghers film adaptation of The Seventh Cross . In 1944, Berlin became an American citizen. After the war he was also seen in Broadway productions (e.g. in 1947 in The Big Two ).

In 1951 Berliner returned to Germany and subsequently to Austria, where he appeared in films and on stage. He was seen, among other things, at the turn of the year 1953/54 in the role of Oshira in a production of John Patrick's Das kleine Teehaus am Theater in der Josefstadt and in 1955 as counselor in a performance of Ludwig Thomas' comedy Moral at Berlin's Hebbel Theater . Other places of activity of Berliners in the west of the city were the Renaissance theater , the comedy and the theater on Kurfürstendamm . One of his best-known late roles was the old farm worker in John Steinbeck's Von Mäusen und Menschen .

In the 50s and 60s, Martin Berliner also appeared in a number of German and Austrian cinema and television films. Especially his TV productions stand out; so his performances in convincing Leihhauslegende , Depths (a Paul Verhoeven -Inszenierung the same name Maxim Gorky - template ), Venus in the light (directed by Peter Beauvais ) and Double standards (by William Shakespeare , directed again by Verhoeven). Berliner's last important activity in front of the camera in 1966 was his interpretation of a witness in The Investigation , Erwin Piscator's documentary and scenic re-enactment of the Auschwitz trials based on a model by Peter Weiss .

Filmography

Movies unless otherwise stated

literature

  • 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. 97.

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personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1966
Place of death Berlin