Constantin Anatol

Constantin Anatol was born in 1921 in Sibiu

Constantin Anatol was born Ludwig Friedman in 1921 to a Jewish family in Sibiu, Romania. His parents, Hana and Hermann Friedman, ran a shoe store. The many languages spoken in Sibiu later helped him in his theater career.

At 11 he went to Timișoara, where he boarded at the local Jewish high school. There he directed a play in 5 acts that he wrote, called Moses. He never studied acting or directing formally and learned both on his own.

After the fall of the Antonescu regime he headed the People's Theater in Sibiu, which he founded with amateur actors. In 1945 he joined Dina Cocea's company in Bucharest as an actor and dramaturge. He later helped found the Szekler Theater in Târgu Mureș, where he acted in Hungarian.

From 1952 to 1964 he acted and directed at the National Theater in Cluj and taught at the city's theater institute. From 1964 to 1969 he worked in the Romanian, Hungarian and German theaters of Timișoara, and from 1969 to 1980 in Târgu Mureș. After 1980 he worked in Israel, in Haifa and Beersheba, and he acted in 4 languages.

He died in 2019.