Austrian actor
After the war followed again an intensive phase of engagements in front of the camera and he impersonated numerous smaller roles in popular productions.
The technical revolution in the film business with the development of the sound did not affect his career.
Towards the end of his career, Ehmann would also appear in several television films for German and Austrian TV.
Ehmann died on November 1, 1967, at the age of 85, in his home town of Vienna. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.
The actor Karl Ehmann belonged at the beginning of his film career to the regular cast around the directors and producers Jakob Fleck and Luise Fleck Kolm and took part in numerous movies.
In 1908 he would begin a 30 year association with the Deutsche Volkstheater in Vienna.
While he concentrated mostly on the theater during his early career, he did appear in a small role in the Austrian film, Der Unbekannte (The Unknown) in 1912. In 1917, he would again begin performing in films, and during the late 1910s through the mid-20s, he had a successful run of starring and featured roles in silent films.
He made his stage debut at the age of 20 in the municipal theater of Olomouc, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic). Over the next five years he would appear in productions in Meran, South Tyrol, Linz, Upper Austria, and Graz, Austria.
He became interested in acting as a young man, studying in a private master class with the famous Austrian stage actor, Karl Arnau.
In the mid-20s Ehmann would take a hiatus from the film industry, choosing to focus on his theatrical career.
