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Hermann Gallinger

Actor
Date of birth : 12/04/1899
Date of death : 06/03/1962
City of birth : Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland

A successful theater actor, Hermann Gallinger played major roles in masterpieces by Shakespeare (Don Juan in « Much Ado About Nothing », the lead character in « Julius Caesar », Shylock in « The Merchant of Venice »), Kleist (Sosias in « Amphitryon »), Brecht (the field preacher in « Mutter Courage »), Schiller (Franz Moor in « The Robbers ») and many others. In total, he played over 160 mostly leading roles, including in operettas or revues, either in Switzerland or in Germany (a country where he was a darling of audiences but that he had to leave when the Nazis came to power). He also acted in a few Swiss films between 1938 and 1947.

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