Friedrich Kayssler

Biography

Friedrich Kayssler was a German theatre and film actor born on April 7, 1874, in Neurode, Prussia, where he developed his passion for the arts under manager Otto Brahm at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He became close friends with director Max Reinhardt, joining his Schall und Rauch Kabarett ensemble in 1901 and later succeeding him as manager of the Deutsches Theater and the Berlin Volksbühne. Kayssler's film debut came in the silent movie "Welche sterben" (1919).