Iffland-Ring
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The Iffland-Ring is a diamond-studded ring with a picture of August Wilhelm Iffland, a prominent German actor, dramatist and theatre director of the late 18th and early 19th century, who played in wor
August Wilhelm Iffland and Franz Labes in Molière's Der Geizige, Berlin, c. 1810.
Josef Meinrad
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Josef Meinrad was an Austrian actor. From 1959 until his death in 1996, Meinrad held the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor — each bequeathing the ring to the next ho
Iffland-Ring
…stating his choice of succession. Like Ludwig Devrient, Krauss collapsed while performing King Lear and died on 20 October 1959, passing the ring to Josef Meinrad, his original choice in 1954. However, his widow later declared that Krauss would have liked to leave the ring to Alma Seidler, but was prevented from…
Waiting for his stage entry in Jedermann, Salzburg 1947