Trivia

The actor Raoul Aslan was regarded as a star actor at the Vienna Burgtheater for many years. The film business didn't play an important role in his career and he took part in only few productions.

The Burgtheater was still the heart of his career. He was the first one who was honored with the title "Kammerschauspieler" in 1929 (the former "Hofschauspieler"). In the next decades he worked as an actor as well as a director and manager at the Burgtheater.

Raoul Aslan came from a wealthy family. He was already interested in acting in school days what suffered his progress at school.

He came to the Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1906 as a unpaid trainee, beside it he attended acting lessons at Franziska Ellmenreich. He made his stage debut in the same year with the play "Julius Caesar". He learned the acting profession at different stages in the following years before he had first great successes in Stuttgart from 1911.

His great breakthrough came in 1917 when he was signed on in Vienna. He became established at the stronghold of the theater with his role as "Gabriel Schilling". Eventually he was obliged to the Burgtheater where he spent most of his time.