Early Life
He was christened as Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German-Jewish mother and an American father. While he was still young the family moved to Görlitz in Germany and in the town state theatre Jannings started his stage career. He worked in Bremen and Leipzig before joining the Max Reinhardt theatre company in Berlin.
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