Hans Sanden (actor, 1891)

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Hans Sanden (born March 17, 1891 in Berlin ; † April 12, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German actor , dramaturge and director .

Life

Hans Sanden was the stage name of Hans Asch (birth name), who was born as the son of a rabbi's family. His acting career began in Gleiwitz in 1911 and led through the theaters in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , Breslau , Saarbrücken and Munich in 1921 to various theaters in Berlin . In 1929 he began working as a dramaturge in the Theater des Westens for the Rotter theaters , where he became director, senior stage director and head of the casting office. After the collapse of the Rotter Group in 1933, he worked for one season as a director at theReichshallen Operetta Theater engaged . He then staged at the Scala in Vienna and at the New Vienna City Theater , which he even leased for about half a year in autumn 1937.

Since he was a Jew, Hans Sanden emigrated to France after the Anschluss with Austria , where he was interned . In September 1942 he was supposed to be taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp on a deportation train , from which, however, he was able to escape. In October 1942 he crossed the Swiss border and was taken to a labor camp there. Here he and Max Fischer headed the acting troupe of the central management of the labor camps until the summer of 1947, which served to entertain internees in Switzerland. Hans Sanden stayed in Switzerland until 1951 and appeared regularly in guest roles at the Stadttheater Chur , where he appeared on stage with Helene Weigel in the 1948 world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Die Antigone des Sophokles under his direction . In 1950 he worked in the Winterthur Summer Theater .

In 1951 Hans Sanden returned to Berlin as an actor. In 1952, the director of the Comedy Berlin, Hans Wölffer, who had already met Sanden at Rotters' management, managed to win him over as deputy director and dramaturge for his theater. In 1963 his area of ​​responsibility was enriched by the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and it was only his death in 1967 that this task could be completed.

Hans Sanden was married to the actress Elisabeth Curell, actually Curiger.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Sanden in the Theater Studies Lexicon of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Sanden, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1967
Place of death Berlin