Kurt Lilies

Kurt Lilien , born Kurt Lilienthal , (born August 6, 1882 in Berlin , † May 28, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp , Poland ) was a German actor .

Life

Lilien began his career at the age of 20 at the Berlin Intimate Theater . His other stage stations were the Stadttheater Wesel, the Berlin Vaudeville Ensemble and the New Operetta Theater in Leipzig. From 1908 to 1920 he worked at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg, afterwards he worked again in Berlin.

Lily was a popular in the 1920s operettas - and revue star, especially in the revues of Herman Haller . As a heavyweight character actor, he appeared in supporting roles in film since 1919 . Until 1933 Lilien could be seen in numerous silent and sound films, often in the role of unsympathetic philistines and nouveau riche.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was no longer able to work in Germany because of his Jewish origins and fled to the Netherlands . There he found employment with Rudolf Nelson, who had also emigrated . After the German invasion in May 1940, he was deported to the Westerbork transit camp and deported to the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943, where, like virtually all prisoners , he was driven straight to the gas chamber through the "Himmelsstrasse" and died.

Filmography

1919: Erdgift - Vera-Filmwerke 1920: When the young cactus blooms 1922: Maciste and the daughter of the Silver King 1923: Harry Hill, Lord of the World 1924: Harry Hill's Hunt for Death. 1st chapter 1924: Harry Hill's Hunt for Death. Part 2 1926: a great night 1927: The most beautiful legs in Berlin 1930: Susanne puts things in order 1930: rag ball 1930: hocus-pocus 1930: Grock 1930: Fra Diavolo (German version) 1930: Flax man as an educator 1930: Dolly makes a career 1930: The affectionate relatives 1930: Bock beer festival 1931: Upside down into happiness 1931: two hearts and one beat 1931: L'Auberge du père Jonas

1931: I'll stay with you 1931: dangers of love 1931: A woman must be forgiven for everything 1931: The floating maiden 1931: The rejuvenated Adolar 1931: The clairvoyant. My heart longs for love 1931: The Red Cat's Secret 1931: Bobby goes 1931: My Leopold 1932: And who is kissing me? 1932: Van Geldern criminal case . Willi Vogel, the escape king 1932: Jonny steals Europe 1932: Gitta discovers her heart 1932: Three from the cavalry 1932: The Orlov 1932: The will of Cornelius Gulden 1933: Manolescu, the prince of thieves 1933: What women dream 1933: Hugo's night work (short film) 1933: Greetings and kisses - Veronika

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 226.
• Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. S. 311, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

• Kurt Lilien at filmportal.de
• Kurt Lilien in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures by Kurt Lilien In: Virtual History
• Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
• The legacy of the ostracized at filmarchiv.at