Fritz Junkermann

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Fritz Adolf Oskar Albert Junkermann ( October 19, 1883 in Stuttgart - October 5, 1942 in Bernburg ) was a German theater and silent film actor as well as a cabaret artist and speaker.

Life

The son of the actor couple August Junkermann and Rosa Le Seur worked between 1906 and 1940 as a theater and film actor, as a cabaret artist and performing artist. In the 1930s, the actress Sigrid Salten toured with him at home and abroad.

Fritz Junkermann's last known address was Amelungstrasse 5 in Hamburg-Mitte, Neustadt. There he was arrested in 1940 on the basis of his alleged homosexuality and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There he allegedly had himself castrated "voluntarily" to prevent his murder. He was operated on on April 9, 1942, but he was allegedly deported to Dachau at the beginning of August 1942 (cover name: "herb garden"), but in reality he was taken to the Bernburg killing center , where Junkermann was gassed on October 5, 1942. The death certificate is dated October 12, 1942.

His brother Hans Junkermann was also an actor.

Filmography

  • 1912: The power of gold
  • 1915: Mrs. Anna's pilgrimage
  • 1916: Under the spell of silence
  • 1919: Prince Cuckoo
  • 1919: Who conquered life
  • 1919: I serve for you
  • 1919: When young hearts break
  • 1919: Flicker stars
  • 1919: real pearls
  • 1919: Alfred's Techtelmechtel
  • 1920: Catherine the Great
  • 1921: Kean
  • 1921: Parisian women
  • 1921: The Lou from Montmatre
  • 1925: The first estate: The big capitalist - 1st part
  • 1925: The first estate: The big capitalist - Part 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Junker man on stolpersteine-hamburg.de
  2. ^ Fritz Junkermann at filmportal.de
  3. ↑ Memory of persecuted homosexuals on rosa-winkel.liebeskleid.de. Retrieved September 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Junkermann, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Junkermann, Fritz Adolf Oskar Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and silent film actor, cabaret artist, speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1942
Place of death Bernburg