André Saint-Germain
André Saint-Germain , bourgeois André Charles Eugène Obrecht (born May 3, 1887 in Paris , † January 6, 1973 in Berlin-Neukölln ) was an actor of French descent on German theaters and in German film.
Life
The son of the hotel owner Charles Obrecht attended a French high school and then studied at the Sorbonne . He then made his living as a bank clerk and newspaper editor. After the First World War , Obrecht began his artistic career under the pseudonym André Saint-Germain as an actor on Berlin theaters and played in the Weimar Republic under Max Reinhardt and Victor Barnowsky, among others .
With the beginning of the sound film age, Saint-Germain was brought in front of the camera and took on a small role as a French soldier in his debut, GW Pabst's pacifist masterpiece Western Front 1918 . In addition, World War II adviser Pabst on the "French" soldiers and military scenes. In the following years, Saint-Germain was preferably cast in French-language versions of German films, in the Third Reich also often in nationalist-patriotic material, in which he mostly had to play a French soldier and opponent of Prussia or Germany in small roles.
After the Second World War , the German by choice hardly appeared in front of the camera and concentrated more and more on the work of a dubbing director (Mars film, Simoton, etc.) - an activity that he had already carried out before 1945. Saint-Germain lived in the west of Berlin, first in Tempelhof , lastly in Neukölln, where he died in 1973 at the age of 85.
Filmography
- 1930: Western Front 1918
- 1931: Gloria (French verse)
- 1931: Salto Mortale (French verse)
- 1931: Les monts en flammes (French verse from Luis Trenker's Berge in Flammen )
- 1932: IF 1 ne répond plus (French verse from Karl Hartls FP I does not answer )
- 1933: L'Homme qui ne sait pas dire non plus (French verse by Heinz Hilperts I want to teach you love )
- 1933: Un jour viendra (French verse by Gerhard Lamprechts To be once a great lady )
- 1936: Allotria
- 1936: Out into the distance (Prends la route) (Made in Germany, French production)
- 1937: Togger
- 1937: The Katzensteg
- 1937: Fanny Elßler
- 1937: The model husband
- 1937: patriots
- 1937: Manege
- 1938: Different countries, different customs (short film)
- 1938: you and me
- 1938: Pour le Mérite
- 1939: The police radio reports
- 1939: Queen of Hearts (L'Héritier des Mondésir) (Made in Germany, French production)
- 1939: Escape into the dark
- 1941: Carl Peters
- 1943: Philharmonic
- 1945: Kolberg
- 1954: Canaris
- 1958: The iron Gustav
- 1958: Majesty goes astray
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1459.
Web links
- André Saint-Germain in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- André Saint-Germain at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saint-Germain, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Obrecht, André Charles Eugène (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-born actor on German stages and in German film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1973 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Neukölln |