Hans Sternberg (actor)

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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Sternberg (born July 3, 1878 in Lübeck , † May 13, 1948 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Sternberg began his stage career in 1896 at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Oldenburg . Further stations were Bremerhaven , Metz , Łódź (in then tsarist Russia , today Poland ), Leipzig and Hamburg . In the Hanseatic city he was a member of the municipal theater ensemble from 1903 to 1909.

In 1909 Sternberg accepted a call to Berlin to fulfill an obligation at the Small Theater . Other stages in the capital, on which Sternberg appeared for the next 30 years until 1944, included a. the Lessing Theater , the German Art Theater and, during the Second World War , various guest performers. In the remaining years of his life after the war, Hans Sternberg appeared on the comedy and stage for young people, and he was also on the board of the latter.

Since the First World War , the film began to gain importance in Hans Sternberg's career. Since his important role as Jon Gynt in an early (1918) Peer Gynt adaptation, he has consistently played supporting roles, occasionally in film classics such as Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod and Dr. Mabuse, the player . In the sound film, his appearances shrunk to a few seconds in batch format.

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SURNAME Sternberg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sternberg, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1948
Place of death Berlin