12 Facts About Albert Bassermann

Albert Bassermann was a German stage and screen actor.

Albert Bassermann was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring.

Albert Bassermann was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed.

Albert Bassermann was an actor at the Meiningen Court Theatre for 4 years.

Albert Bassermann 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.

Albert Bassermann was among the first German theatre actors who worked in film.

Albert Bassermann worked with German silent film directors Richard Oswald, Ernst Lubitsch, Leopold Jessner and Lupu Pick.

In 1928 he appeared in the first staging of Carl Zuckmayer's Katharina Knie, and in November that year in Herr Lambertier by Verneuil In 1933, Albert Bassermann left Germany and lived in Switzerland, then moved to the United States in 1938.

Albert Bassermann was told that if he wanted to continue to perform in Germany, he would have to get divorced.

Albert Bassermann did not get divorced, but Elsa and he went to Switzerland instead.

Albert Bassermann was already past eighty but was as 'modern' in his conception of the role of Solness and in his techniques as anyone I've ever seen or played with.

Albert Bassermann died on 16 May 1952, at or near Zurich Airport, soon after his flight from the United States had arrived.