Martin Brandt (actor)

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Martin Brandt (born May 7, 1903 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † October 28, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

He began his theater career in Bamberg in 1921 and played from 1922 to 1924 in Schaffhausen and then in Stuttgart . Further stage stations were Koblenz , Breslau , Brieg and Frankfurt (Oder) . Occasionally he also worked as a dramaturge and theater director .

From 1933 he lived in Berlin. Since he was banned from working as a Jew after the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he could only appear in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden until 1941 . In the spring of 1941 he fled to the USA via Paris and Lisbon . There he played at the Deutsches Theater in New York and on Broadway, among others .

Gradually he also got smaller film roles. Brandt played, among others, General Heinz Guderian in Hitler in 1962 and the Jewish Nazi victim Marx in The Odessa Files in 1974 . He returned to Germany and performed mainly on Berlin theaters.

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SURNAME Brandt, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1989
Place of death Berlin