Joost Siedhoff

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Joost Jürgen Siedhoff (born June 27, 1926 in Dessau ) is a German actor .

Joost Siedhoff (before 1996)
Signature by Joost Siedhoff

Life

The son of the actor Werner Siedhoff and the Bauhaus-trained artisan Alma Buscher received theater training after graduating from high school and made his debut in the Frankfurt Theater im Zoo in 1947 with the role of Jean in the play Vom Jenseits . In 1950 he moved to the theater of the city of Baden-Baden , in 1952 to the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . In the autumn of 1955 he returned to Frankfurt to fulfill an obligation at the Theater am Roßmarkt . In 1957/58 Siedhoff went on an extensive tour of South America and performed in Buenos Airesand Santiago de Chile . Back from South America, Joost Siedhoff went to the two Frankfurt theaters he knew. Further overseas guest appearances have taken him to Canada and Australia .

Joost Siedhoff became known to the television audience in the early 1960s through the Hessian television series Die Firma Hesselbach , by and with Wolf Schmidt , who also directed together with Harald Schäfer . He embodied the authorized signatory Willi Hesselbach. After eleven episodes he left the television series after his film character Willi Hesselbach married the secretary Helga Schneider ( Helga Neuner ) and went to New York with her .

After the end of the series engagement, Joost Siedhofff moved through Europe with his own theater company. He later worked at the Stuttgart State Theater , the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Theater am Kudamm in Berlin . In 1990 and 1991 he appeared at the Salzburg Festival .

In addition to appearances in international movies, including Das Geisterhaus and Beyond the Sea , he mainly played in television series in Germany. He was involved in, among others, This Drombuschs , Berlin, Berlin and the Tatort . In 1976 he was in the HR production The Winter That Was A Summer .

He also produces radio plays and keeps alive memories of the life and work of his mother Alma Siedhoff-Buscher , who worked as an interior designer at the Bauhaus and was responsible for the Bauhaus children's furniture and toys. Joost Siedhoff likes to describe himself as a “Bauhaus offspring”, as his father, Werner Siedhoff, also worked as a dancer and pantomime on Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus stage.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 694 f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1608.

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personal data
SURNAME Siedhoff, Joost
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siedhoff, Joost Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau