Erich von Stroheim — director with roots in the Empire
Erich von Stroheim. Vienna-born film director and actor of Greed and La Grande Illusion (1885-1957). No documented connection to the Russian Empire. Born Erich Oswald Stroheim in Vienna in 1885 to Benno Stroheim, a Jewish hatmaker from Gleiwitz in Prussian Silesia, and Johanna Bondy from Prague; in America he presented himself as an Austrian aristocrat.
Tracing the roots — Vienna; father from Gleiwitz (Prussian Silesia), mother from Prague - no Russian Empire link documented
No documented connection to the Russian Empire. Born Erich Oswald Stroheim in Vienna in 1885 to Benno Stroheim, a Jewish hatmaker from Gleiwitz in Prussian Silesia, and Johanna Bondy from Prague; in America he presented himself as an Austrian aristocrat.
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Vienna; father from Gleiwitz (Prussian Silesia), mother from Prague - no Russian Empire link documented. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The von in my name stands for the chains I wear."