We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
