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Attila Hoerbiger: Portrait Photo by Ross, hand-signed with fountain pen.
3,5 x 5,5 inches (9 x 14 cm), very fine condition.
Attila Hoerbiger (1896 - 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor.
Hoerbiger was born in Budapest, then Austria–Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hoerbiger and younger brother of actor Paul Hoerbiger. He began his stage career in 1919, performing at the Raimund Theater in Vienna in 1921, and from 1928 was a member of the Theater in der Josefstadt ensemble under Max Reinhardt, from 1950 of the Burgtheater. From 1935 to 1937 and from 1947 to 1951 Hoerbiger took the title role in the performances of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. He also acted Rudolf von Habsburg in Grillparzer's Koenig Ottokars Glueck und Ende at the great reopening of the Burgtheater on 15 October 1955.
In 1931 Hoerbiger starred in Die grosse Liebe, the first film ever directed by Otto Preminger. He played in several German and Austrian movies, often alongside with his wife Paula Wessely whom he had married in 1935. With her he had three actress daughters, Elisabeth Orth (b.1936), Christiane Hoerbiger (b.1938) and Maresa Hoerbiger (b.1945). After the Austrian Anschluss Hoerbiger and Wessely starred in the anti-Polish propaganda film Heimkehr ("Homecoming") of 1941.
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