Fritz Grünbaum

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Fritz Grünbaum (April 7, 1880 in Brno, Moravia as Franz Friedrich Grünbaum – January 14, 1941 at the Dachau concentration camp, Germany) was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and pop song writer, director, actor and master of ceremonies. During his childhood and adolescence Grünbaum lived with his family in Brünn which were dealing in art. At an age of 18 years, he attended law school in Vienna which he concluded, in fact, as a doctor, but more and more he began to show interest for literature. After the law studies, he began as a master of ceremonies at Vienna Cabaret Die Hoelle, where he had his first performance in the operetta "Phryne" in 1906. From 1903 on he composed first libretti, among others with Robert Bodanzky and made his appearance as an actor in the most different minor parts on many Vienna Cellar Stages and Revue Theatres. Until the beginning of World War I (in which he enlisted himself as a voluntary in 1915) again and again he travelled to Berlin - the first time in 1907 in order to perform at "Chat Noir" - to act as master of ceremonies at Rudolf Nelson's theatres. In 1914, Grünbaum acted for the first time at Simpl, the legendary Vienna Cabaret where he also acted time and again in the time to come. Together with Karl Farkas he developed in 1922 the so-called "Doppelconférence" originated from Hungary and presented at the "Budapester Orpheum" of Vienna, and led it to its highest spot. In fact, Grünbaum was described by acquaintances as an "a

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