Ernst Arndt (actor)

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Ernst Arndt

Ernst Arndt (born February 3, 1861 in Magdeburg ; † September 24 or September 25, 1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a German-born stage and film actor whose main field of activity was in Austria .

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Born in Magdeburg, he received a commercial training until 1880. During a visit to Paris in the same year, which he used to go to the theater frequently, he decided to switch to acting. Arndt took acting lessons in Berlin and then began his stage career in Hamm, Westphalia . Initially, Arndt worked mainly at provincial theaters ( Barmen , St. Gallen , Frankfurt an der Oder and Koblenz ), from 1889 to 1897 he worked at the Danzig City Theater , where he made a name for himself primarily as a comedian. He was then seen for four seasons at the Stadttheater Bremen , where he was also allowed to work as a comedy director.

In those early years, Arndt's repertoire of roles included such diverse (often humorous) characters as the village judge Adam in Der zerbrochne Krug , the Argan in Molière's The Imaginary Sick , the Striese in the popular Schwank The Robbery of the Sabine Women , the Cölestin in Nitouche , the monastery brother in Nathan the Wise , the note in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Malvolio. After another stopover in Berlin, where he could be seen at the Neue Schauspielhaus directed by Alfred Halm , Arndt managed to move to the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1910, where he worked for many years. Arndt was to celebrate his greatest successes on this most important and respected Austrian stage.

In the course of his career there he received numerous state honors (appointment as a chamber actor and professor), on March 13, 1931 he was awarded the citizenship certificate of the City of Vienna (→ List of Honorary Citizens of the City of Vienna ). Arndt (since the end of the war in 1918) made occasional detours to Austrian film, but his appearances there are of lesser importance.

The elderly artist was already retired when the Burgtheater honorary member Arndt was isolated after the annexation of Austria in March 1938. On July 10, 1942, he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , and two and a half months later (on September 23, 1942) he was transferred to the Treblinka extermination camp . The 81-year-old Jew was murdered there immediately after his arrival.

Filmography

literature

  • 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. 39.

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personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1942 or September 25, 1942
Place of death Treblinka concentration camp