Munich Kammerspiele
After serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, Homolka attended the Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, the city of his birth, and began his career on the Austrian stage. In 1924 he played Mortimer in the premiere of Brecht's play "The Life of Edward II of England" at the Munich Kammerspiele, and from 1925 in Berlin where he worked under Max Reinhardt.