Frederic Zelnik

Frederic Zelnik was one of the most important producersdirectors of the German silent cinema. He also appeared on screen as an actor.

Friedrich Zelnik was born in a Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the AustroHungarian Monarchy. Czernowitz has been then largely populated by Jews and has been after Wilno the most an important city for the Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. After the studies in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nrnberg, Aachen, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin in the theaters Theater an der Knigsgrtzer Strae, Berliner Theater, Komdienhaus.

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