Arthur Peiser

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Arthur Peiser , also Arthur Peyser (born January 25, 1885 in Berlin ; died at the end of 1941 in the Lodz ghetto ), was a German stage and film actor .

Live and act

Peiser received his artistic training in the first decade of the 20th century and got one or two permanent engagements in the late Imperial Era before the outbreak of World War I (for example at the Wroclaw City Theater). After the war, Peiser had longer and longer phases without fixed commitments and went on tour during this time. For example, his main role of the nightclub owner Nick Verdis is guaranteed, which he played in 1927 (in the Wiener Kammerspiele) and 1928 (in the Berlin Komödienhaus) alongside the still rather unknown Marlene Dietrich in the play Broadway , based on the US authors' original of the same name George Abbott and Philipp Dunning , embodied. Subsequently, from 1928 to 1932, followed a four-year permanent engagement at Berlin's theater in Klosterstrasse. During this time Peiser also received three small film roles, including twice alongside Hans Albers (in Der Sieger and in FP1 does not answer ). The seizure of power by the National Socialists in January 1933 meant the professional end of the Jewish artist.

As “non-Aryan”, Peiser was excluded from both the Reich Theater Chamber and the Reich Film Chamber , which amounted to a professional ban. He then joined the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden Berlin and appeared in the plays Jeremias (1934, based on Stefan Zweig ), Bronx Express (1935, based on Ossip Dymow ), Der Golem (1937, directed by Fritz Wisten ) and Benjamin woin? (1938, also under Wisten's direction). Peiser could also be seen in theaters in Jewish schools, for example in Kleist's Der Zerbrochne Krug at the beginning of 1937 . In the same year Peiser also took part in the cabaret program The Big Picture Arch . After the dissolution of the Kulturbund by the National Socialists (1941) Peiser was completely isolated. On October 25, 1941, he was deported from the Reich capital to the Litzmannstadt ghetto on Transport 10b Berlin 2 . In view of his advanced age, Arthur Peiser is unlikely to have lived long under the catastrophic supply conditions there. The exact circumstances of death are not known.

Filmography

literature

  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 729. Munich 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arthur Peiser in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
  2. ↑ Steven Bach: Marlene Dietrich. Life and Legend . P. 485 f., Minneapolis / London 2011
  3. ↑ Transport lists 1941

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personal data
SURNAME Peiser, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peyser, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Lodz ghetto