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Egon Brecher (February 18, 1880 – August 12, 1946) was a Czechoslovakian stage actor and director who toured Austria and Germany acting on the stage, and also served as the chief director of the Stadts Theatre in Vienna, before entering the motion picture industry. Born as a son of a professor, he began to study philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, because he decided to become an actor. He debuted either in 1900 (according to Zalmen Zylbercwaig) in the play Das neue Ghetto (The new ghetto) by Theodor Herzl or in 1903 on the Vienna... MORE

Egon Brecher (February 18, 1880 – August 12, 1946) was a Czechoslovakian stage actor and director who toured Austria and Germany acting on the stage, and also served as the chief director of the Stadts Theatre in Vienna, before entering the motion picture industry. Born as a son of a professor, he began to study philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, because he decided to become an actor. He debuted either in 1900 (according to Zalmen Zylbercwaig) in the play Das neue Ghetto (The new ghetto) by Theodor Herzl or in 1903 on the Vienna stage in Grillparzer′s Sappho. He played on several province stages in Germany and Austria until 1910 and then played in Vienna on stages directed by Josef Jarno until 1921. Besides, in 1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for something like 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 co-founder of the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna, a yiddish stage, which existed for three years. Then, in 1921, he went to Broadway, to act there. He LESS