Georg John
Georg John , born in Georg Jacobsohn (born July 23, 1879 in Schmiegel near Posen , † November 18, 1941 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto ), was a German actor .
Life
John began his theater career around 1900 on traveling and smear stages . In 1904 he became an actor and director in Wilhelmshaven , and from 1905 he worked in Stolp , Altona , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Bochum and Göttingen . In 1914 he received an engagement as an actor and director at the Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna .
Since 1917 he was a frequently cast silent film actor. His first appearances in Die Fremde as a bearded Tibetan monk and as Death in Hilde Warren and Death were characteristic of his subsequent appearance, even if he was seen in the roles of fathers, husbands and notables, especially at the beginning.
Typical of him, however, were representations of bizarre, gnome-like figures in several classics of German silent films. In Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod (1921) he played a beggar, in Die Nibelungen (1924) he played three roles, in M (1931) he played the blind balloon seller who recognizes the murderer because of a whistled song. Also Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau put him repeatedly, including as the compassionate night watchman in The Last Man (1924).
Classified by the National Socialists as a so-called “ full Jew ”, Georg Jacobsohn / John was immediately excluded from the German cultural scene after they came to power in 1933 and since spring 1933 has not been offered any film roles. He then joined the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden under his maiden name - Jews had meanwhile been banned from using artist names - and took part in its performances until the dissolution of this Jewish institution on September 11, 1941 (last appearance in Franz Molnar's play in the castle ) . Occasionally, as in 1937 with the Hirschfeld-Franzos play Der Pojaz , he also directed. Immediately following the closure of the Jewish Cultural Association, German authorities deported him to the Litzmannstadt ghetto , where John, in poor health, died soon after under unexplained circumstances.
Filmography
- 1916: Ramara
- 1917: The Stranger
- 1917: The spotted tie
- 1917: Hilde Warren and death
- 1918: Mr. Wu
- 1918: waves of fate
- 1918: Peer Gynt
- 1919: Harakiri
- 1919: The Spiders , Part 1 - The Golden Lake
- 1919: Veritas vincit
- 1919: Scary Stories
- 1919: The boy in blue
- 1919: The way of Grete Lessen
- 1920: Mankind's advocate
- 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress
- 1920: The Spiders , Part 2 - The Ship of Diamonds
- 1920: The legend of St. Simplicia
- 1920: Humanity unleashed
- 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg
- 1920: The King of Paris (2 parts)
- 1921: The Indian tomb (2 parts)
- 1921: Lady Hamilton
- 1921: The tired death
- 1921: The Secret of Santa Maria
- 1921: Tobias Buntschuh
- 1921: The stranger from Elstergasse
- 1922: Dr. Mabuse, the player
- 1922: Marie Antoinette
- 1922: You and the three
- 1922: The burning field
- 1922: The booty of the Erinyes
- 1922: the adventurer
- 1922: The wrong Dimitry
- 1923: The lost shoe
- 1923: The stone rider
- 1923: The Princess Suwarin
- 1923: shine against luck
- 1924: guillotine
- 1924: The Nibelungs (2 parts)
- 1924: the last man
- 1924: The wax museum
- 1924: Decameron nights
- 1924: My Leopold
- 1925: Variety show
- 1925: Lightning train of love
- 1925: The Notorious
- 1925: Bismarck, 1st part
- 1925: The gentleman without an apartment
- 1925: Hanseatic League
- 1925: Pietro, the corsair
- 1925: Adventure in the night express
- 1926: The Sunken
- 1926: The escape into the night
- 1926: The Sanssouci mill
- 1926: The gray house
- 1926: The king's orders
- 1926: Attention Harry! Open eyes!
- 1926: The Lord of Death
- 1927: harassed women
- 1927: The Frauengasse in Algiers
- 1927: Metropolis
- 1927: Previous conditions
- 1927: At the edge of the world
- 1927: The man without a head
- 1927: Petronella
- 1927: The Curse of Inheritance
- 1927: The weavers
- 1927: Luther - A film of the German Reformation
- 1928: Anastasia, the false daughter of the Tsar
- 1928: Volga-Volga
- 1928: spies
- 1928: panic
- 1928: Mandrake
- 1928: man against man
- 1929: Men without a job
- 1929: Somnambul
- 1929: Atlantic
- 1929: The midnight tax
- 1929: Andreas Hofer
- 1930: The Sans-souci flute concert
- 1930: the land of smiles
- 1930: rag ball
- 1931: M
- 1931: Stormy night
- 1931: Danton
- 1932: The child's first right
- 1932: FP1 does not respond
- 1932: Death over Shanghai
- 1933: The Flower of Hawaii
- 1933: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1933: Leap into the abyss
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. 193.
Web links
- George John in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Georg John at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Georg John In: Virtual History
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
personal data | |
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SURNAME | John, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacobsohn, Georg (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1879 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiegel at Posen |
DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1941 |
Place of death | Lodz ghetto |