Rudolf Stiassny

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Rudolf Stiassny (born June 30, 1883 in Weidlingau near Vienna , † probably March 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Born in the greater Vienna area, Stiassny made his acting debut in 1904 at the Central Theater in Dresden . In 1906 he came back to Vienna. Just two years later, after an interlude at the Regensburg City Theater (1907/08), Stiassny was standing in front of a film camera for the first time in a small role, in the first ever Austrian feature film - the Liebes und Standessschnulze From level to level .

Subsequently, however, he concentrated on his work on the stage (engagement among others at Berlin's Residenz Theater ). Towards the end of the First World War, Stiassny returned to film after a long absence and worked, initially on behalf of the production company Filmag , as a director for five years - mainly of dramas and melodramas. After that it became quiet around him.

In March 1939, Stiassny fled racist persecution due to his Jewish origins from Vienna, which had meanwhile become National Socialist, to France . There he was initially interned when the war broke out, later extradited to the Germans and taken to a transit camp. On March 2, 1943, German authorities deported Rudolf Stiassny on the 49th transport from Le Bourget- Drancy to Auschwitz, where he was probably murdered shortly after his arrival.

Filmography (as a director)

  • 1908: From level to level (actors only)
  • 1918: The secret of the gold cup
  • 1918: The unsuccessful rendezvous
  • 1919: found again
  • 1919: That comes off
  • 1919: the fool of his heart
  • 1919: The rebel
  • 1920: fool and death
  • 1921: I did it
  • 1923: The voice of conscience

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. 328.

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personal data
SURNAME Stiassny, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiaßny, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Weidlingau near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp