Paul Guttmann (actor)

Paul Guttmann (born September 23, 1879 in Baden near Vienna , † probably 1942 in the Minsk Ghetto , Soviet Union ) was an Austrian actor , director and stage manager .

Live and act

The son of the actor Alexander Guttmann (1851–1889) began his theater career in 1895 in Wiener Neustadt . He then performed mainly in the Austro-Hungarian provinces - Pilsen (Plzeň), Iglau (Jihlava), Marburg (Maribor), Esseg (Osijek) - and occasionally worked as a stage manager before he came to Vienna in 1903 . There Paul Guttmann worked as an actor as well as chief director of the operetta on stages such as the Johann Strauss Theater and the Theater an der Wien . At the latter venue he staged Oscar Straus ' Rund um die Liebe in 1915 , Emmerich Kálmán's Die Faschingsfee in 1917 and Franz Lehár's Where the Lark Sings in 1918 . At times Guttmann also acted as deputy director of the Apollo Art Theater .

In later years Guttmann went on guest tours that also took him abroad (e.g. to Halle in Germany ). He rarely appeared in front of the camera. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, the Jewish artist quickly fell into complete isolation. On November 28, 1941 Paul Guttmann was deported to the Minsk ghetto and probably died the following year.

His twin brother was the stage actor Emil Guttmann , another brother was the actor Arthur Guttmann (1877-1956).

Filmography

• 1928: The two seals
• 1934: A star falls from the sky

literature

• 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. 151.