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Edmund Fritz

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ23612384 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edmund Fritz (before 1918 – after 1932) was an Austrian (possibly Hungarian-born) actor, film director, and manager of at least one musical group.

He was co-director of the 1918 film Alraune, a Hungarian science fiction horror film, believed to be lost.

He appeared in the 1930 film Die singenden Babies (English: The Singing Babies), believed to be lost, which may also have featured his female vocal group Singing Babies (AKA Die Singing Babies von Edmund Fritz, and Edmund Fritz's Singing Babies; see Viennese Singing Sisters).

He appeared in the 1931 Otto Preminger film Die große Liebe (English: The Great Love). Die Singing Babies von Edmund Fritz appeared in the same film.

In 1932, Edmund Fritz's Singing Babies recorded the 78 rpm single "Wir sind ja heut' so glücklich" / "An der schönen blauen Donau" (Odeon A 161216).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edmund Fritz” as actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1932, 1930, 1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Edmund, Fritz and actor can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23612384. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1932, 1930 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edmund Fritz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.