Jarno was born in
Pest, Hungary, and made his debut in the
Lehártheater in
Bad Ischl,
Upper Austria. He visited the place every summer for the following 14 years. In 1897 a summer theatre was initiated in
Bad Aussee, with Jarno as its first director. Two years later he gave up the job and moved to
Vienna to take over as the leader of the
Theater in der Josefstadt. In Vienna, Jarno could carry out his ideas about modern drama. He brought plays by
Henrik Ibsen,
August Strindberg,
Arthur Schnitzler and
George Bernard Shaw onto the stage. Jarno worked in Vienna until 1923. During this time, he married the actress
Johanna Niese. The German-language premiere of
Ferenc Molnár's suburban legend
Liliom (1913) featured Jarno in the title role and made the play a worldwide success. In 1905, Jarno bought the Fürst-Theater and lead it in parallel with the Theater in der Josefstadt. In 1926 he assumed leadership of the Renaissance-Bühne theatre in Vienna. Jarno died in
Vienna and is buried in the
Zentralfriedhof. == Personal life ==