Paul Hörbiger

Biography

Paul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor born in Budapest on April 29, 1894. After serving in World War I, he began his acting career in 1919 and gained fame with a role at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1926. He later achieved success at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1940 and performed at the Salzburg Festival in 1943, starring as Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute.