Josef Schaper

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Josef Schaper , born Josef Schapira (born March 19, 1901 in Ungwar , Ung County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † March 20, 1984 ) was a German actor .

In the sixties to eighties of the twentieth century, Schaper was mainly active on television. In 1963 he was seen in the television version of the movie The Twelve Jurors ; he became known as "Attorney Katz" in One Day. Report from a German concentration camp in 1939 from 1965. Other productions with him were the TV film The Investigation , 1966, and the series Drei Frauen im Haus (1968).

Life

Josef Schaper was born under the name Josef Schapira on March 19, 1901 in Ungwar, today's Ukraine, into a Jewish family from Vienna. After graduating from high school in Vienna shortly before the end of the war in 1917, he took acting lessons and worked as an extra at Viennese theaters. His first engagements took him to Brno, Meran, Ulm, and finally to Breslau and Berlin at the Freie Volksbühne. The name change came about because a director advised him to replace the Jewish “Schapira” with the German-sounding name Schaper. On April 1, 1933, the boycott day proclaimed by the Nazis against the Jews, he was expelled by an SA group directly from a rehearsal with the words: “Josua, our theater must become German”. After a short stopover in Vienna, Josef Schaper embarked in 1934 as a tourist for Palestine, today: Israel. Since he could not appear in the Hebrew theater due to a lack of language skills, he made a living from various professions, including a. with a small transport company. Together with other actors and actresses who had emigrated from Germany, he founded the German-language theater "Hagescher" - the bridge. In 1957 he tried to regain a foothold in Germany. He played at the Theater am Zoo in Frankfurt am Main under Fritz Remond, for one season at the Stadttheater Bochum and was engaged at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover from 1959 to 1984 under the directors Kurt Ehrhardt , Franz Reichardt and Alexander May . His subject was character batch, in which he was very successful on stage until the end.

His last appearance was in 1983 in Mrs. Juliane Winkler . Josef Schaper died on March 20, 1984. He was buried in the Bothfeld Jewish Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] (PDF; 733 kB) Michael Aschenbach: Holocaust and Film. The reception of popular feature films about the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany and its influence on the culture of remembrance. Master's thesis, University of Hanover , History Seminar, 2004, pp. 47–53. There the table of contents, based on Martina Thiele
personal data
SURNAME Schaper, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schapira, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Ungwar , Ung County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1984