Jacques Arndt

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Jacques Arndt (born January 8, 1914 in Sarajevo , † 2012 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian-Argentine actor , director and journalist .

Life

Arndt was trained in Vienna , where he still worked as a child at the Burgtheater and at small theaters, such as the Theater der Jugend, and during a performance of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein's camp, he got into a rally by the Hitler Youth , against which he protested. After he fled to South America ( Montevideo , Uruguay and then Argentina ) via Germany, Luxembourg and Marseille in 1938 , he never saw his Jewish mother, who had been murdered by the Nazis , again. In Buenos Aires he became a recognized actor, director and journalist - in 1941 initially with Father Walter Jacob at the Free German Stage .

In addition to his theater work, he made a total of 39 films in Argentina until the 1990s. He has also made a name for himself as a director for musicals and TV shows in several Latin American countries. He is also considered to be one of the pioneers of Argentinian radio and television. His program "La Agenda de Jacques" on Radio Cultura (Buenos Aires) ran with him until he was very old. He also worked as a journalist for a while: he wrote for the Argentinisches Tageblatt .

In 1997 he was invited to a premiere by Franz Werfels Jacobowsky and the Colonel in the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt and received by the Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima .

literature

  • Zayas de Lima, Perla (1990). Diccionario de Directores y Escenógrafos del Teatro Argentino. Galerna. ISBN 978-950-556-250-3 .
  • Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930–1995). Buenos Aires, Editorial Corregidor. ISBN 950-05-0896-6 .
  • Blanco Pazos, Roberto; Raúl Clemente (1997). Diccionario de actores del cine argentino 1933–1997 (1 ° edición). Buenos Aires Ediciones Corregidor. p. 52nd ISBN 950-05-1205-X .
  • Ingo Malcher: Tango Argentino: Portrait of a country. CH Beck, 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Argentinian actor, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo
DATE OF DEATH 2012
Place of death Buenos Aires