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Fritz Karl

Austrian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ88861
Source-derived summary

Fritz Karl is an Austrian film, television and stage actor born in Gmunden, Upper Austria. He is one of the busiest Austrian actors.

Private life

Karl lives in both Munich and Vienna with his wife, German actress Elena Uhlig. The two of them have two sons and two daughters, born 2007, 2010, 2015 and 2018. He has three more children from a previous relationship.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fritz Karl” is austrian actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fritz, Karl and Austrian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2010, 2015, 2018—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1967-12-21, 1967-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Fritz, Karl and Austrian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “austrian actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q88861. VIAF identifies the subject as 96865663. The Library of Congress control number is no2009128270. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2010, 2015 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Fritz Karl” 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.