| Wolf Albach-Retty | |
| Fictional Character | |
| "Shtetl Days" POD: c. 1940 | |
| Type of Appearance: | Direct |
| Nationality: | Germany |
| Religion: | Judaism (converted) |
| Date of Birth: | Early 21st century |
| Occupation: | Actor, Melamed |
| Affiliations: | Village of Wawolnice |
| In the village of Wawolnice, Albach-Retty played the part of "Alter Kaczyne". | |
Wolf Albach-Retty was a German actor. He was one of the historical re-enactors who performed as a Jew at the tourist village of Wawolnice in the mid-21st Century. He played Alter Kaczyne, the village melamed. Many of his young students were the children of the re-enactors.
One day after work, Albach-Retty told fellow re-enactor Veit Harlan and Kristi Söderbaum that a tourist had exposed her breasts to him, which made teaching very difficult.
Like many others in the village, Albach-Retty soon came to identify with his Jewish character.
Literary comment[]
Wolfgang "Wolf" Albach-Retty (1906-1967) was an OTL Austrian actor. However, he did not appear in Suss the Jew (1940), the Nazi "hate film" which provided the names for three other main characters in "Shtetl Days".
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