Otto Sauter-Sarto

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Otto Sauter-Sarto , actually Otto Sauter (born April 29, 1889 in Munich , † January 19, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Immediately after graduating from school in 1908, Otto Sauter received his artistic training from the court actor Otto König and at the Royal Court and National Theater in his native Munich. His first engagement brought him to the Speyer City Theater on October 1, 1908 ; This was followed by engagements in the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth in Elberfeld and soon also in Berlin.

Apart from a few excursions to silent film, Sauter-Sarto largely stayed away from the celluloid medium until the dawn of the sound film era. Equipped with a distinctive, compact head of character, the stocky Bavarians were often allowed to play thick-headed, angular Bavarians: in dramatic material, but above all in swans, comedies and comedies. He was particularly busy in the Third Reich ; the size of his roles rarely exceeded the batch format.

His career has suffered lasting damage since the early days of World War II after the married father of two was sentenced to 400 Reichsmarks in 1940 for violating Section 175 (homosexuality)  . Sauter-Sarto then left Berlin and played theater again until all stages were closed in late summer 1944; so 1941–1943 at the Raimundtheater in Vienna and most recently (1943/44) at the Hanover Municipal Theaters .

After the war he returned to Munich shortly, but in the period that followed had considerable difficulty in getting engagements or film roles and tried to stay afloat with guest appearances. He made his last appearances in front of the camera in DEFA productions, where he received tiny roles as an honorary from the service.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1920: people without children
  • 1920: The black boat
  • 1922: The evil spirit Lumpaci Vagabundus
  • 1929: Katharina Knie
  • 1930: O girl, my girl, how I love you!
  • 1932: The blue of the sky
  • 1933: Midsummer Night
  • 1933: The voice of love
  • 1933: At Strasbourg on the Schanz '
  • 1934: Hanneles Ascension
  • 1934: The Czardas Princess
  • 1934: roses from the south
  • 1934: love wins
  • 1934: The cousin from Dingsda
  • 1934: virgin against monk
  • 1935: make me happy
  • 1935: Artist's love
  • 1935: love song
  • 1935: The courageous seafarer
  • 1936: practical jokes
  • 1936: incognito
  • 1936: Fridericus

literature

  • German stage yearbook. Vol. 63, 1955, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 66.
  • 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. 1471.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Sauter-Sarto, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauter, Otto (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1958
Place of death Berlin , Germany