Dolf Zenzen

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Julius Adolf "Dolf" Zenzen (born October 3, 1909 in Düsseldorf , German Empire , † mid-October 2003 in Munich ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry and an artist agent .

Live and act

After finishing high school, the son of the factory director Heinrich Zenzen attended a technical college and then the Max Reinhardt School in Berlin to train as an actor. Another acting teacher was Veit Harlan . Dolf Zenzen made his stage debut in 1932 at the Hagen City Theater. This was followed by engagements at venues in Magdeburg (1933-35), Berlin (1935/36), Munich (1936/37), Dresden (1937/38) and at the German Theater in Riga (1938/39), before Zenzen in the 1939/40 season, just before the outbreak of World War II, followed a call to the Städtische Bühnen in Munich. Here he stayed for the next four years and at the same time took part in several small roles in films. In 1943/44 he belonged to the Ensemble Berliner Künstlerbühnen, in 1944/45 Dolf Zenzen moved in.

After the war, the actor returned to the Bavarian capital and resumed theater and film work. But he was also seen in cabaret events. In 1950 Zenzen founded his own small production company, the Pegasus-Filmgesellschaft. After 1953 he hardly appeared in front of the camera and was largely forgotten as a stage mime. Now and then the freelance and guest artist also directed the stage. Dolf Zenzen remained connected to Munich, where he had run an artist agency since 1947, until his death. From April 1945 to 1962 he was married to the actress Fee von Reichlin , whom he survived by a year. Inge (borg) Löscher was Zenzen's second wife. The actor died shortly after his 94th birthday.

Filmography (complete)

  • 1936: The voice of the heart
  • 1937: Love doesn't go that far
  • 1940: Golowin walks through the city
  • 1940: enemies
  • 1941: Alert level V
  • 1941: Secret files WB 1
  • 1949: The Red Cat's Secret
  • 1949: Hello Miss!
  • 1949: Who are you that I love?
  • 1952: The beautiful Tölzerin
  • 1953: Lachkabinett (only co-production manager)
  • 1988: The Other Shore (short film)

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, third volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1935
  • Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook, founded by Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall. 38./39. Delivery, Zedler-Zysset. December 2011. Entry by Dolf Zenzen, p. 3754

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personal data
SURNAME Zen, Dolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zenzen, Julius Adolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor and artist agent
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 2003
Place of death Munich