- When he had finished his apprenticeship with a baker, he came in contact with Russian-Jewish students and he sympathized with the revolutionary movement in Russia.
- He appeared as a substitute for an ill falling colleague in the play "Hamlet" and attracted attention for the first time. In the following twenty years, he became established as a great theatre-actor. Only between 1914 and 1918, his career came to a stop because of the conscription into the Austrian army.
- Together with his first wife, Martha Guttmann, he had a son, Gerhard, who was born in 1915. Gerhard emigrated in 1936 to Haifa (then Palestine) and lived until his death on January 6, 2011, as Gad Granach in Jerusalem.
- Alexander Granach was married in second marriage with the actress Lotte Lieven-Stiefel.
- He came via Vienna to Berlin in 1906 where he earned his living as a baker for the time being. Besides, he joined the Yiddish theatre where he could make his first acting experiences.
- The critics of in this time blamed him for his over-doing gestures in his performances. Very nice is the description of a critic for the Film-Kurier in 1923 on the occasion of the movie "Qualen der Nacht (1926)" (1925): "Fantastic in the conception, unfortunately too strong orchestrated in the carrying out. Each gesture a Meyerbeer orchestra.".
- Since 1934, he lived with the Swiss actress Lotte Lieven-Stiefel together. He wanted to see her recognized as his legitimate wife, although they were not married.
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