Igo Sym

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Igo Sym

Igo Sym , born in Julian Karol Sym , (born July 3, 1896 in Innsbruck , † March 7, 1941 in Warsaw ) was an Austro-Polish actor .

Life

The son of Anton Sym and his wife Julia, née Sepp, served in the Austrian army after school and studies during the First World War . From 1918 to 1921 he was an infantry officer in the Polish army , which he left as a first lieutenant in the reserve .

From 1921 to 1925 he worked as an employee and authorized signatory at the economic bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego in Warsaw. After his first film use in 1925, he received a contract with the Sascha Filmgesellschaft in Vienna. In numerous silent films, Sym embodied especially elegant gentlemen and officers. On January 29, 1928, he was elected chairman of the Sascha Film Studio's film artists' association.

From 1928 he also worked for German film. In 1931 he appeared on stage for the first time in Vienna in the operetta Majestät lets bitten . In the thirties, Sym became more and more a stage actor, who was particularly popular in Warsaw as a revue and operetta star. He shone with acrobatic interludes and his musical skills on the singing saw .

After the attack on Poland, Sym, who saw himself as an ethnic German , cooperated with the German occupiers and took over the management of the new, German-language theater in Warsaw. He also took part in the anti-Polish Nazi propaganda film Homecoming . The Polish underground state saw in Sym a traitor, especially since his collaboration with the Gestapo became known. An underground court sentenced him to death , and a firing squad shot him dead in his home. This act was followed by numerous murders and deportations of the Polish population as “reprisals” .

Filmography

  • 1925: The Vampires of Warsaw ( Wampiry Warszawy )
  • 1926: O czym się never myśli
  • 1926: The Pratermizzi
  • 1927: Szamota's mistress ( Kochanka Szamoty )
  • 1927: The confession of the field curate / The field court of Gorlice
  • 1927: Tingel-Tangel / The girl from Tingel-Tangel
  • 1927: Café Electric / The Love Exchange
  • 1928: Kaiserjäger / The Kaiserjäger
  • 1928: Lace panties and Schusterpech / Lotte, the department store girl
  • 1928: Dorine and chance
  • 1928: Crevette model house
  • 1928: Spelunke
  • 1928: love in May
  • 1928: Archduke Johann / Duke Hansl
  • 1928: The wife of yesterday and tomorrow / The divorce lawyer
  • 1929: The lady on the banknote
  • 1929: The thief in the sleeping coupée
  • 1929: Adieu, Mascotte
  • 1929: my sister and me
  • 1929: The right to love
  • 1929: The mistress and her servant
  • 1929: Stud. Chem Helene Willfüer
  • 1929: The experience of one night
  • 1929: Once you give your heart away
  • 1930: Vienna, you city of songs
  • 1930: The Volga girl
  • 1930: what does love cost?
  • 1930: gigolo
  • 1930: Only on the Rhine ...
  • 1930: Barracks magic
  • 1930: the old song
  • 1930: Moritz makes his fortune / Meier and Co.
  • 1931: The Song of Nations
  • 1931: I marry my husband
  • 1931: a car and no money
  • 1932: Palace on Wheels (Pałac na kołach)
  • 1933: The Spy (Szpieg w masce)
  • 1934: The Awakening (Przebudzenie)
  • 1937: Serenade
  • 1937: Adventure in Warsaw (Dyplomatyczna żona)
  • 1939: Zona i nie żona
  • 1939: Złota maska

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