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Leon Askin

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The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.


— Leon Askin


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To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.


— Leon Askin


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Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.


— Leon Askin


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We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.


— Leon Askin


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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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