The actor Robert Lindner joined an education as an actor and he began his professional career at the Stadttheater Mährich-Ostrau in 1936.Afterwards followed a long lasting engagement an the German Volkstheater in Vienna where he was active from 1938 to 1945.
Later followed engagements at the Viennese Kammerspielen, at the Theater in der Josefstadt and from 1952 at the Viennese Burgtheater.
