Josef van Santen

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Josef van Santen (born March 2, 1902 in Munich , † June 26, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Josef van Santen was born as Josef Franz Süßmaier in a middle-class Catholic family in Munich . He received his artistic training from 1921 to 1924 in his hometown at the private drama school of Mara Feldern-Förster . Here he also made his theater debut with Karl Falkenberg and became a student of the well-known theater scholar Arthur Kutscher . Then he worked u. a. in Karlsruhe , Freiberg am Neckar , Heidelberg , Meiningen and in Bochum with Saladin Schmitt . When the National Socialists seized power in Germany, he emigrated in 1934 after an engagement in Dortmund with his wife and daughter via Switzerland to southern Spain . Before the start of the war in Spain, he returned to Germany with his family in 1936. With difficulties he got an engagement at the theater in Neustrelitz , but had to give it up because he was called up for the armed forces .

After the Second World War he went back to Neustrelitz for a short time, then worked in Magdeburg , then as an actor and director in Altenburg and Halle / Saale . It was also in Halle that Prof. Wolfgang Langhoff saw him and then recruited him to the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1955, to which he belonged for eleven years with character and comedy roles as an essential pillar of the ensemble. Van Santen was already in contact with film in the 1920s, but this medium and television did not become interested in him again until 1955.

Josef van Santen was married to the actress Anny von Orelli (1890–1968). Their daughter Christine van Santen (1931–1984) was also an actress.

Filmography

theatre

actor

Director

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 12, 1956, p. 3
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of July 8, 1966, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Santen, Josef van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1966
Place of death Berlin