Norbert Schiller (actor)

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Norbert Schiller (born November 24, 1899 in Vienna ; died January 8, 1988 in Santa Barbara , California , USA ) was an Austrian-American theater and film actor , director and author .

Life

Norbert Schiller completed his acting training at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1920 to 1921 and made his debut at the Burgtheater Vienna . From 1921 to 1922 he played at the Lübeck City Theater. Then he was an actor at the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus until 1928 and at the Renaissance Theater Berlin from 1928 to 1931 as well as a guest actor at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin. In the 1932/33 season he was at the Rose Theater Berlin, 1933/34 guest director at the Stadttheater Bern and also in 1934 director with the Jewish Cultural Association of Rhine-Ruhr and actor with the Cultural Association of Rhine-Main. From 1934 to 1936 he was an actor and again director at the Stadttheater Bern, in 1935/36 and 1937/38 as a guest director at the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn. He also staged at the of Max Röthlisberger founded Boys Bern stage . In addition, he wrote a number of essays and drama, including until 1933 for the Berlin cabaret Die Katakombe .

He emigrated to the USA in 1939. There he worked in Leopold Jeßner's production of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in 1939 for the Continental Players in the El Capitan Theater Hollywood. He was also an actor on Walter Wicclair's Los Angeles Stage.

His efforts to find his way back to the German-speaking stage after the war failed. However, from 1947 he played in almost 100 cinema and television films in the USA and Germany - mostly in small and very small roles; he was often not even mentioned in the credits, as in Stanley Kramer's The Judgment of Nuremberg or Alfred Hitchcock's The Torn Curtain . He had a slightly bigger role in 1973 in the Oscar-nominated film The Pedestrian by Maximilian Schell - here he portrayed himself as an actor in exile in the USA. Schell then also cast Schiller in The Judge and his Executioner and Tales from the Vienna Woods , his last film appearance.

Name attribution "violet blossom"

In the birth book for the isr. Cultusgemeinde in Vienna he is registered as "Norbert Schiller", son of Naftali and Sofie Schiller. In 1939, however, it was listed as "Norbert Schiller (Veilchenblüt)" in the revised 45th edition of the handbook on the Jewish question created and posthumously continued by the anti-Semitic journalist Theodor Fritsch . The attribution N. Veilchenblüth appeared in later reference works .

Birth book of isr. Cultus community in Vienna

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ German stage yearbook. Volume 46, 1935, p. 203
  2. ^ Annette Brunschwig: Heimat Biel: History of the Jews in a Swiss city from the late Middle Ages to 1945. Contributions to the history and culture of the Jews in Switzerland. Volume 15, Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1072-6 , p. 100; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Theodor Fritsch: Handbuch der Judenfrage: the most important facts for judging the Jewish people . 45th edition. 249th to 255th thousand. Leipzig: Hammer, 1939, p. 331. Likewise 49th edition, 1943, p. 335. See also the scan of the 1944 edition , in which it is now written as Norbert Schiller (violet blood) .
  4. ^ Entry Veilchenblüth, N. - Pseudonym: Norbert Schiller (e. 1938), cabaret artist - Brückner / Rock - F. 630, 57 , in: Hilmar Schmuck: Jüdischer biographischer Index. 3. Milder - Z Munich: Saur, 1998, p. 1031; Parallel cross-reference Schiller, Norbert , ibid, p. 921
personal data
SURNAME Schiller, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veilchenblüth, Norbert (wrong name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American theater and film actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1988
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , USA