Robert Palfrader
Robert Heinrich Palfrader is an Italian-born Austrian actor, comedian and author.Biography
Originally, he was the owner of a café in Vienna's Josefstadt district. His career in entertainment started when he was discovered by an agency in Germany, where he was working for TV station SAT 1.
In Austria, he initially worked for local radio station Wien 1, before being employed by national broadcaster ORF. There he has mainly done comedy shows, the most popular being echt fett, a hidden camera prank show, and Wir sind Kaiser, a political satire where the Austrian monarchy is restored. There, Palfrader plays the "Emperor Robert Heinrich" based on the Emperors of Austria.
On the theatre stage, he has been playing at Vienna's Rabenhof-Theater and at the city's Volkstheater, in plays by Ödön von Horvath and Ferenc Molnar.
