Robert Dorsay

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Robert Dorsay in The Comedians ' Cabaret , 1939

Robert Dorsay (born August 16, 1904 in Bremen as Robert Stampa ; † October 29, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German singer , dancer and actor .

Life

The son of the opera singer Paul Stampa began his stage career in Austria and moved to Munich in 1927. From 1929 to 1931 he was a singer and ballet master at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz . From 1933 he played at the Nuremberg Intimate Theater and from 1935 at the Theater am Admiralspalast in Berlin, where he was engaged as a comedian in cabaret . His love was swing , his preference for political jokes. From 1936 to 1939 he appeared in various, mostly small roles in films.

Dorsay was a member of the NSDAP from August 1, 1932 until it was expelled on September 1, 1933 due to arrears of contributions . In 1939 he married Louise Mentkes. In 1941 Dorsay was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a driver. In March 1943 he fell during a home leave in telling a political joke in the restaurant of the Deutsches Theater a Gestapo - spy on. Then you checked his correspondence. On March 31, a letter from Osterode to his friend Eddy Haase was intercepted in Berlin, in which he wrote: “When is this idiocy over?” He was arrested and sentenced to death on October 8, 1943 for undermining military strength and in Plötzensee executed . The death sentence should scare off other artists. His name was removed from the opening credits of the films in which he had appeared. A stumbling block was laid for him before his last residence in Bremen .

The offending joke

The joke, the story of which led to Dorsay's surveillance and execution, was: When Hitler entered a town, a girl held out a tuft of grass to him. Hitler asks: “What am I supposed to do with that?” The girl replies: “Everyone says, if the Führer bites the grass, better times will come”.

Filmography

  • 1936: You are so beautiful, Berliner
  • 1936: A girl from the ballet
  • 1936: It's about my life
  • 1936: honeymoon
  • 1936: Love came like a miracle
  • 1937: Adventure in Warsaw
  • 1937: Bluff
  • 1937: The lucky finder
  • 1937: The reason for divorce
  • 1937: The bat
  • 1937: The embezzlement
  • 1937: carousel
  • 1937: love goes strange ways
  • 1937: My wife, the pearl
  • 1937: Psst, I'm mom and pop
  • 1937: Play on the threshing floor
  • 1937: As once in May
  • 1937: Reunion is a pleasure
  • 1937: To new shores
  • 1938: Different countries, different customs
  • 1938: The girl with a good reputation
  • 1938: The lost smile
  • 1938: family on order
  • 1938: rubber
  • 1938: Love letters from the Engadine
  • 1938: Dance on the volcano
  • 1939: The big lot
  • 1939: The man with the psst
  • 1939: Man in the closet
  • 1939: Robert and Bertram
  • 1939: How do I get rid of the pearl?

literature

  • Jörg Schöning: Robert Dorsay in CineGraph , Volume 5 (1986), edition text + kritik
  • 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. 93.
  • Volkrat Stampa: Robert Dorsay - It was about his life. Sujet-Verlag, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-944201-98-6 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Dorsay  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Stampa (Robert Dorsay), * 1904 stolpersteine-bremen.de
  2. Why dictators don't have fun at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on March 31, 2016