Erich Sandt

Erich Sandt , born as Arwed Zykesch Khan (born May 4, 1878 in Belgrade , Serbia , † October 1, 1936 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) was a German theater and silent film actor as well as a stage director .

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Sandt attended the humanistic grammar school in Belgrade and then continued his education at the Prague Conservatory. Sandt then began his career there in 1897. Belgrade and Sofia followed as further stage stops by 1902. From 1903 to 1905 Sandt worked at the Residenztheater Berlin, then, until 1907, he appeared as theater director in Tsarist Russia (in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Dorpat / Tartu). From 1908 to 1914 Ernst Sandt worked as a director at the Imperial Theater in Saint Petersburg.

Sandt returned to Germany when the First World War broke out and made contact with the film industry in Berlin in 1915. Sandt's appearances in front of the camera were limited to a handful of minor films in which he mostly played small to medium-sized roles. His film work ended in 1923 and he returned to the theater as an actor and director. You could still see him in the 1920s a. a. at Berlin's Theater des Westens before he settled in Switzerland. There he can be proven at the beginning of the 1930s as a senior director at the operetta in Bern and when Hitler came to power in the management of the Alhambra Theater there. Living in or near Basel (in Saint Louis on the French side), Sandt, whose wife Edith was also an actor, did not return to the empire of Adolf Hitler. He died in Czechoslovakia in 1936.

Filmography

• 1916: Love through the fireplace
• 1918: His bathing doll
• 1919: distress and crime
• 1919: The night of horror
• 1921: by a million dollars
• 1922: The black envelope
• 1923: rivals

literature

• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 157 f.

Web links

• Erich Sandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Erich Sandt at filmportal.de