- Popular Jewish actor on stage and then movies, escaped to The Netherlands when the Nazis came to power. After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, he was captured and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland where he was killed.
- In 1929 he returned to Berlin where he not only appeared in stage plays but also in numerous revues and operettas.
- He began his stage career at the "Intimes Theater" in Berlin in 1902, it soon followed appearances on stages in different German cities.
- He became a demanded support actor in the sound film era of the 30s.
- As a Jew he was no longer able to work in Germany from 1933 and his artistic career came to an end.
- When he came to Hamburg in 1908 he remained active at the Carl-Schultze-Theater for the next twelve years.
- He fled to Holland where he was able to work on stages again for a brief time but when the German Wehrmacht invaded Holland the fate of Kurt Lilien was sealed. They arrested him and he was brought to Westerbork in 1940. Afterwards they deported him to Sobibor in 1943 where he was killed in a gas chamber.
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