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Leon Askin

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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.


— Leon Askin


#evening #few #had #lunch #meat

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.


— Leon Askin


#considered #dumont #speak #too #used

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.


— Leon Askin


#belated #birth #city #end #fame

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.


— Leon Askin


#admired #afraid #directors #dumont #him

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.


— Leon Askin


#change #especially #even #father #great

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.


— Leon Askin


#i #knew #life #moment #profession

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.


— Leon Askin


#air #american #became #corps #educated

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.


— Leon Askin


#difference #great #great deal #his #honorary

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.


— Leon Askin


#become #chances #dumont #great #life

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.


— Leon Askin


#father #many #socialist #years






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Askin died in Vienna on June 3 2005 at the age of 97. 1988: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
1994: Silver Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
1996: Award of the title "professor"
2001: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st class
2002: Gold Medal of Honour for Services to the city of Vienna
2003: Goldener Rathausmann of Vienna to mark the 75th anniversary
2007: Naming of Leon-Askin-Platz in Vienna-Penzing
2007: A bust of Leon Askin in Türkenschanzpark (Vienna)
2007: Plaque unveiled at Hütteldorferstrasse 349 in Vienna-Penzing to mark 100th anniversary of Askin's birth
2009: At Sechsschimmelgasse 19 in Vienna-Alsergrund a public housing block was named after him
27 May 2010: Leon-Askin-Park at Grundsteingasse in Ottakring (Vienna's 16th District) named after Askin


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