Egon Brecher (18 February 1880 â€" 12 August 1946) was an
Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief
director of Vienna's Stadttheater, before entering the motion picture
industry.The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in
1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his
studies, deciding instead to become an actor.He appeared on several
provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played
in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921.In
1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for one or two years) to
play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz
and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo
Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was a co-founder, along
with Isaak Deutsch, Jacob Mestel, and others, of the Freie Jüdische
Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed until 1922.
Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief
director of Vienna's Stadttheater, before entering the motion picture
industry.The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in
1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his
studies, deciding instead to become an actor.He appeared on several
provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played
in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921.In
1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for one or two years) to
play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz
and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo
Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was a co-founder, along
with Isaak Deutsch, Jacob Mestel, and others, of the Freie Jüdische
Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed until 1922.
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