Fritz Kortner [SEP] occupation
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Life and career.
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. After his breakthrough performance in Ernst Toller's "Transfiguration" in 1919, he became one of Germany's best-known character actors and the nation's
novels still appeared in Switzerland.
He was one of few writers in exile who managed to get published in England. In 1935 he wrote the story for the British film "Abdul the Damned" with Fritz Kortner in the lead role. After the occupation of Austria in 1938, he organized the "Free Austrian P.E.N.-Club" in London to assist writers threatened by Nazis to leave their country. In 1939, he applied for British citizenship, but did not received it until 1947. Instead, he was interned in 1940 for