- Father of Christian Kayßler.
- An addition to acting, he wrote plays and poems.
- His son Christian was killed in an Allied bombing raid in 1944.
- Succeeded his friend Max Reinhardt as manager of the Berliner Neue Freie Volksbühne between 1918-23. During this time, he discovered director Ludwig Berger and signed on Veit Harlan, Heinz Hilpert and Lucie Mannheim.
- Near the end of World War II he was murdered by Russian soldiers at his Berlin residence while trying to protect his wife.
- Trained by Emil Lessing and on stage from 1895 with the Deutschen Theater in Berlin.
- Graduating in 1893 Kayßler studied philosophy at the universities of Breslau and Munich and began his theatre career at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under manager Otto Brahm, later working at municipal theatres in Görlitz and Halle.
- In 1904 he met Helene Fehdmer, who played Lola Montez at the Neues Theater. She became his second wife.
- He followed Reinhardt, when he became manager of the Deutsches Theater in 1905, where Kayßler performed in Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, Goethe's Faust and Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
- At the Deutsches Theater, Kayßler had made friends with director Max Reinhardt, whose Schall und Rauch Kabarett ensemble in Berlin he joined in 1901.
- The actor Friedrich Kayssler set the tone of many roles with his character face, especially his piercing look was very impressive.
- He attended the gymnasium in Breslau (Wroclaw), where he became a close friend of Christian Morgenstern -they met in 1889 and were friends until Morgenstern's death in 1914 - and Fritz Beblo.
- He was also active as a writer. To his publications belong "Schauspielernotizen" and "Helene Fehdmer zum Gedächtnis".
- In Berlin he met Max Reinhardt. Together they started the cabaret "Schall und Rauch". Morgenstern joined them as a regular author.
- From 1933 onwards he worked for the Staatstheater, where he was directed by Gustaf Gründgens and Jürgen Fehling.
- Kayßler was named as one of the Third Reich's most important artists in the Gottbegnadeten list of September 1944.
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