Adolphe Hamburger
Adolphe Cornelis Maria Hamburger (born December 24, 1898 in The Hague , Netherlands ; died February 9, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp , German Reich ) was a Dutch stage and film actor .
Life
Adolphe Cornelis Maria Hamburger began his artistic career in 1920 and was initially to be seen mostly at small private theaters and touring stages, including the Rotterdamsch Tooneel, De Splinters, Haagsch Openluchttooneel, Odeongezelschap, Vereenigd Haagsch Tooneel, the Gezelschap Rike Hopper, the Amsterdamsche Spelers and the Centraal Tooneel. In 1925 Hamburger went to Belgium for a year , and in the 1931/32 season he also appeared in the operetta (in " King of the Vagabonds "). Hamburger played important and small roles, often gallant gentlemen of the world, high nobility and young lovers. He filled his subject in salon comedies and comedies (based on models by Hungarian authors such as Ferenc Molnár and Ladislas Fodor ), but also in classical theater (Shakespeare's " King Lear ", as well as in plays by Georg Büchner , Knut Hamsuns and Somerset Maugham ). Hamburger only appeared in front of the camera twice in the 1930s.
The professional and private situation changed dramatically for the Jewish artist as a result of the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in the western neighboring country in 1940. Forced largely to inactivity by the German occupiers in 1941, Adolphe Hamburger was only able to work at the "Joodsch Kleinkunst" ( Jewish cabaret) and took part in a performance of Emmerich Kálmán's operetta Die Csárdásfürstin . Finally, Hamburger got involved in the administrative area of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam before he was arrested and taken to the transit and assembly camp in Westerbork . On January 20, 1944, Hamburger reached the Theresienstadt ghetto as part of a deportation from Westerbork . Here Hamburger tried to distract his fellow inmates from everyday camp life with recitations and other artistic activities. From there another deportation took place on September 28, 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp . After less than two weeks, the camp management transferred the actor to the Dachau concentration camp on October 10, 1944, where Hamburger died of exhaustion, illness and malnutrition in February 1945, two months before the liberation.
Filmography
- 1934: De familie van mijn vrouw
- 1936: Amsterdam by night
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 159.
Web links
- Adolphe Hamburger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short bio with photo of hamburgers
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamburger, Adolphe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamburger, Adolphe Cornelis Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch actor in stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The Hague , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dachau Concentration Camp , German Empire |