Alexander Granach

Biography

Alexander Granach was born in the region of Galizia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire Granach was acting on Broadway with Frederic March in the play by John Hersey, "A Bell for Adano," when he had an attack of appendicitis and died several days later of an embolism, on March 13, 1945.

Alexander Granach wrote an autobiographical novel, with the title Da geht ein Mensch, in German, which was published in 1945, just after his death.

The book was published at the same time in an English version, as There Goes an Actor.

It was recognized at the time as a remarkable work, and has been republished as: From the Shtetl to the Stage: the Odyssey of a Wandering Actor, by Transaction Publishers, 2010.

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Country: Germany
Gender: Male
Education: Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
Place of birth: Verbivtsi
Birth date: 18 April 1890
Nationality: German

When he had finished his apprenticeship with a baker he came in contact with Russian-Jewish students and he sympathized with the revolutionary movement in Russia.
Alexander Granach was married in second marriage with the actress Lotte Lieven-Stiefel.
He appeared as a substitute for an ill falling colleague in the play "Hamlet" and attracted attention for the first time. In the following twenty years he became established as a great theater actor, only between 1914 and 1918 his career came to a stop because of the conscription into the Austrian army.
He came via Vienna to Berlin in 1906 where he earned his living as a baker for the time being. Besides he joined the Yiddish theater where he could make his first acting experiences.
The critics of in this time blamed him for his overdoing gestures in his performances. Very nice is the description of a critic for the Film-Kurier in 1923 on the occasion of the movie "Qualen der Nacht" (1925): "Fantastic in the conception, unfortunately too strong orchestrated in the carrying out.
Together with his first wife Martha Guttmann he had a son Gerhard who was born in 1915. Gerhard emigrated in 1936 to Haifa (then Palestine) and lived until his death on January 6, 2011 as Gad Granach in Jerusalem.
Since 1934 he lived with the Swiss actress Lotte Lieven-Stiefel together. He wanted to see her recognized as his legitimate wife, although they were not married.

Movies

Nosferatu: The First Vampire
1998
The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine..
My Buddy
1944
Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a full year before the end of WW II) as a don't-let-it-happen-again sermon.
Three Russian Girls
1943
The Soviet Union, just after the Nazi invasion in 1941.
Gypsies
1936
A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op..
Danton
1931
Danton is a 1931 German historical drama film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim and Gustaf Gründgens.
Comradeship
1931
The picture tells of a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an undergound fire and explosion.
Pavement Butterfly
1929
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong.
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
1928
Hoppla, wir leben!
1927
Warning Shadows
1923
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife.
Man by the Roadside
1923
Die Tänzerin Navarro
1922
Carmencita marries planter Marcellus.
Camera obscura
1921
Der große Chef
1921
Das goldene Buch
1919

Books

From the Shtetl to the Stage
Alexander Granach
Alexander granach, who died while he was acting on broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the german stage.
From the shtetl to the stage
Alexander Granach
Alexander granach, who died while he was acting on broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the german stage.
From the shtetl to the stage
Alexander Granach
Alexander granach, who died while he was acting on broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the german stage.
Du mein liebes Stück Heimat
Alexander Granach
Da geht ein Mensch. Roman eines Lebens.
Alexander Granach
Життя народженого в Галичині й добре відомого в німецькомовному світі експресіоністичного актора Алек-сандра Ґранаха, викладене ним у блискучому романі, який вважається одною із найзначніших автобіографій, що написані німецькою мовою.
Da geht ein Mensch
Alexander Granach
Da geht ein Mensch; autobiographischer roman
Alexander GRANACH
Життя народженого в Галичині й добре відомого в німецькомовному світі експресіоністичного актора Алек-сандра Ґранаха, викладене ним у блискучому романі, який вважається одною із найзначніших автобіографій, що написані німецькою мовою.
Ot geyt a mentsh.
Alexander Granach
Oṭ geyṭ a mentsh
Alexander Granach
Oṭ geyt a menṭsh
Alexander Granach
There goes an actor
Alexander Granach
Da geht ein Mensch
Alexander Granach
Життя народженого в Галичині й добре відомого в німецькомовному світі експресіоністичного актора Алек-сандра Ґранаха, викладене ним у блискучому романі, який вважається одною із найзначніших автобіографій, що написані німецькою мовою.
Alexander Granach und das judische Teater des Ostens.
Alexander Granach

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