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- Karl Paryla was born on August 12, 1905 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Mich dürstet (1956), Dr. Semmelweis (1950) and Der Komödiant von Wien (1954). He was married to Hortense Raky and Eva Steinmetz. He died on July 14, 1996 in Vienna, Austria.
- SpousesHortense Raky(1939 - July 14, 1996) (his death, 3 children)Eva Steinmetz (divorced, 1 child)
- Had one son with his first wife Eva Steinmetz, Michael Paryla, who died 1965.
- He had 3 children with his second wife, the actress Hortense Raky, daughter Veronika, b. 1940, son Nikolaus Paryla b. 1939, and son Stephan Paryla, b. 1948.
- Austrian stage actor/director with strong communist leanings. The son of a civil servant, he was trained at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and began on stage in 1924. After acting in German theatres, he had long residencies at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna (1933-38) and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich 1938-45, also staging classic plays. Co-founder after the war of the left-wing Neue Theater in der Scala (1948-56), subsequently affiliated with the East Berlin Deutschen Theater (1956-61) and in films with Defa. For some time, he was blacklisted in the West, though regularly active there again by the mid-60's.
- The actor Karl Paryla had his greatest successes on the stage, he only appeared seldom in movies.
- Paryla is credited as one of the actors that made the Schauspielhaus Zürich "the best theatre in Europe".
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