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| Fritz Wrede
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. The actor and singer Fritz Wrede was a welcome guest on stage, he only appeared sporadically in movies. His stage appearances included the play "Die Fledermaus" in 1911, and from 1915 he appeared regularly in the Viennese cabaret "Simpl", where he was active until 1919 and from 1921 to 1922. He made further stage appearances at the Kleine Residenzbühne, the Theater an der Wien and the Wiener Kammerspiele. In his first movie "Bigdan Stimoff" (16) directed by Georg Jacoby he played at the side of Georg Reimers, Carl Goetz and Lotte Medelsky. Afterwards he took part in "Das zweite Leben" (16) with Fritz Kortner, Carl Goetz and Hans Lackner again under the direction of Georg Jacoby. In "Das Ende vom Liede" (19) he played the role of the banker Holst with Asta Nielsen, Marga Köhler and Julius Geisendörfer. His last cinematical work was "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" (23) with Franz Glawatsch, Max Ralph-Ostermann, Alice Hechy and the much too early deceased Anita Berber. After his last movie he went to the USA for two years where he was the general agent for the Viennese Bohême publishing house. After his return, he married Hanna Bloch in 1924, the widow of Ernst Bloch, who owned one of the largest publishing houses in Germany. With the rise of the National Socialists, the publishing house had to cope with great losses, and as a Jew, Fritz Wrede was also exposed to the arbitrariness of the National Socialists. After two failed suicide attempts, he shot himself in the head with a pistol at the beginning of October 1934. |
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