Heinz Gordon

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Heinz Gordon (born December 17, 1871 in Tarnowitz , Upper Silesia , today Poland, † June 14, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German actor , theater director , screenwriter and dramaturge .

Life

Gordon began his acting career in 1892 on an East Frisian touring stage. First he was employed in the field of the teenage comedian. Commitments to Mulhouse , Neisse , Frankfurt (Oder) , Zittau , Oldenburg and Cologne followed . At the turn of the century he spent two years in Milwaukee, USA .

In 1902 Gordon reached Berlin , where the Intime Theater had committed him. He stayed in the imperial capital for the following decades and made a name for himself as a theater actor. He also worked as a dramaturge at the Apollo Theater . Only at the beginning of the 1910s did Gordon leave Berlin to answer a call to Dresden . Heinz Gordon took over the management of the Central Theater there and also appeared as senior director.

Gordon made contact with film even before the First World War . For a long time he stayed here only sporadically and worked there as an actor and screenwriter. As a result of the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 remained the Jews Heinz Gordon henceforth denied all artistic fields of activity. In 1938 he was expelled from the Reich Theater Chamber . Gordon continued to live in Berlin before he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on September 21, 1942, together with his wife Selma, who was almost three years older than him. His wife died there in November 1942, he died 19 months later.

Movies

as (co-) scriptwriter, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F-H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 325.
  • 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. 138.

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personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, dramaturge and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1944
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto