!!!Zeska, Philipp

b. Vienna, April 27, 1896, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 5, 1977, Kammerschauspieler, director, writer, son of 
Karl  Zeska. Started his career at the Vienna Stadttheater, acted at 
the Vienna Burgtheater (320 parts) from 1920, worked also as director 
at the Vienna Burgtheater from 1932 to 1945. With Karl Eidlitz was 
head of the Vienna Akademietheater (the Burgtheater Studio) from 1931 
to 1935, worked as a visiting director at the Vienna Deutsches 
Volkstheater from 1940 to 1943, 1945 founding member and president of 
the Society for the Promotion of New Dramatization Methods; manager of 
the Klagenfurt Stadttheater from 1957 to 1959. Awarded the honorary 
ring of the Vienna Burgtheater in 1964.

!Works
Burgtheater von A-Z. Anekdoten, 1967; Spektakel muessen sein 
oder Kleines Theater-Bestiarium, 1968. - Comedies, dramas, poems 
(Unsterblicher Prater, 1947), novellas, essays, scripts and radio 
plays.



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