Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Hans Unterkisher


Among the members of the German "Irving Place Theatre", which Maurice Schwartz had attempted to [aribertsyen] in his Yiddish troupe, which had taken over the theatre, the Christian-German actor Hans Unterkisher was found, who on 28 November 1918 performed there as "Apollo" in the production of Jacob Gordin's "Sappho" with Berta Gerstin in the title role.

B. Gorin writes:

"There debuted [nokh] other Germans at the Irving Place Theatre, but they acted in German, and, when Rudolph Kristian, they did not accept Yiddish theatre."


B. Gorin -- "History of the Yiddish Theatre", N. Y., 1929, Vol. II, p. 240.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 7, page 6277.
 

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