Alfons Fryland
Alphons Fryland ( born May 1, 1888 in Vienna, † November 29, 1953 in Graz, also Alfons Fryland; native Alphons Fritsch ) was an Austrian actor.
Life
Alphons Fryland was born the son of Moritz and Barbara Fritsch Fritsch ( born Blaschke ).
Fryland spent his childhood in Silesia and then attended the Export Academy Vienna. From 1914 he pursued musical studies in Graz, Munich and Paris. Following an actors training at Charles Peppler, he served during the First World War until 1919 as a reserve officer in the 10th Regiment of Dragoons. This year, director Fritz freisler hired him to star in the movie pursuit of happiness.
Since then he worked in main and supporting roles with many German and Austrian films of the 1920s and enjoyed considerable popularity temporarily. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP. Because he as he claimed in an exchange of letters, had been discriminated against by the Jewish producers Alfred Zeisler with the role allocation, he retired to Graz. Here he called again Alphons Fritsch and worked as a clerk at the District Office.
He married Magdalena Stemann and had two children with her.