Albert Bassermann

German actor

Born: September 7, 1867 · Died: May 15, 1952

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Who was Albert Bassermann?

Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in Mannheim, his birthplace, after he began to study chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1884/85. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed. He was an actor at the Meiningen Court Theatre for 4 years. From 1899, he worked for Otto Brahm. He began work at the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 1904, the same year that his future wife, actress Elsa Schiff, moved to Berlin to work at that same theater. In 1909, the year after they married, he started working at the Lessing Theatre, though he also continued at the Deutsches Theater, working there with Max Reinhardt from 1909 to 1915.

Historical significance

Bassermann was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Foreign Correspondent (1940).

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