Trivia

Heavy-set, prominently white-maned character actor, the son of a locksmith. Florath worked in admin before embarking on a theatrical career in 1908. From 1922 to 1945, he was a regular cast member of Max Reinhardt's Berliner Staatstheater. He was versatile in every genre of film (beginning in silent cinema) as hearty, down-to-earth working class or professional men, particularly pedagogues, priests and physicians.

After the failure of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and the murder of Kurt Eisner, Florath went to Berlin, where he served from 1920 until 1944 in the ensemble of the National Theatre and also directed.

During World War I he served voluntarily for the Royal Bavarian infantry Leibregiment where he also acted as a recruit instructor, and he was also put into action at the Western Front.

He took acting lessons with Alois Wohlmut and, as a sideline, wrote feuilleton contributions.

Florath lived in Schlechtbach, Gschwend, from 1938 until his death in 1957.

The actor Albert Florath made first acting experiences with a amateur group before he took acting lessons and entered a theater career.

When the First World War began, Florath interrupted his artistic career, volunteering as a reserve lieutenant and serving as an instructor of recruits.

He was bailiff candidate in Delbrück, where he was active in the welfare, church and school department and the police administration.

After the war he hold the office of a socialistic representative at the Bavarian national assembly for a short time before he went to Berlin 1920 to work as an actor, director and dramaturge at the Staatstheater till 1944.

His last stage station led him to Stuttgart.

With the advent of sound film, Florath established himself as a character actor with mostly grumpy and sometimes quirky, but hearty characters.

Florath gained first stage experience in amateur dramatic groups of local clubs in Delbrück. In 1908, Florath gave up his career in office and went to Munich-Schwabing, to devote himself entirely to acting. He debuted in 1908 as a stage actor at the court theater in Munich.

In 1938, Florath was designated as a Staatsschauspieler (i.e. an actor of national importance).

With the talkies came the breakthrough and he was normally engaged as the good-natured fat person in comedies.

In the post-war years he was able to impersonate much promising roles at the beginning like in "Liebe 47" (1949) and "Insel ohne Moral" (1950). But the following movies concentrated on slapstick and the new genre of films with a regional background by the majority.