Fritz Kortner

Austrian actor and theatre director (1892-1970)

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Theaterstücke
Letzten Endes
Aller Tage Abend

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Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director. Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in…

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Kortnergeschichten — Self (archive footage)1980
Hitler: A Career — Self (archive footage)1977
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany — Self (archive footage)1975
Der Kaufmann von Venedig — Shylock1969
Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte1966
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe1965
Das Profil — Self1962
German Film Award — Self1951
Epilogue — Mr. P. L. Hoopman1950
The Last Illusion — Professor Mauthner1949

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Type: Person
Country: AT
Active from: 1962

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Instance of: human
Given name: Fritz
Gender: male
Citizenship: Germany
Place of birth: Vienna
Place of death: Munich
Spouse: Johanna Hofer
Occupation: stage actor
Languages spoken: German
Image: Fritz-Kortner-1959.jpg

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place of burial: Munich Forest Cemetery
Commons category: Fritz Kortner
date of birth: 1892-05-12
date of death: 1970-07-22
cause of death: leukemia
start of work period: 1915-00-00
birth name: Fritz Nathan Kohn
manner of death: natural causes

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