!!!Moissi, Alexander

b. Trieste (Italy), April 2, 1879, 
d. Vienna, March 22, 1935, actor. Discovered for the stage in 
1898 by J.  Kainz; 1898-1901 at the Burgtheater, 1901-1903 at the 
Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague, 1904 with M.  Reinhardt in Berlin. 
Frequent performances in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival (1920 
first "Jedermann" - Everyman). One of the greatest German-speaking 
actors during the period between the two World Wars, particularly 
impressive performance of troubled characters in dramas by W. 
Shakespeare, G. Buechner, H. Ibsen, L. Tolstoy, etc.

!Literature
E. Faktor, A. M., 1927; H. Boehm, M., 1927; I. 
Rohracher, Leben und Wirken des Schauspielers A. M., doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1951; R. Schaper, M., 2000.



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