Peter Dornseif

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Josef Peter Dornseif (born May 20, 1907 in Borbeck , † November 25, 1972 in Munich ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

After completing secondary school and training as an actor, Peter Dornseif began his first engagement in Bochum in 1927. After working in Leipzig, Schwerin and Wiesbaden, he came to Berlin in the 1950s, where he played at the Deutsches Theater , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Volksbühne . At the end of the decade, Dornseif moved to the Federal Republic and continued his career on stages in West Berlin and Saarbrücken.

Dornseif began working for film and television as early as the early 1950s. He first appeared in front of the camera in 1950 in the DEFA feature film Familie Benthin . He was also seen in the propaganda film The Condemned Village and in the most successful GDR film of 1954, Alarm im Circus . Dornseif also found employment on West German television. He played Inge Meysel's film husband in the series Gertrud Stranitzki , was seen in various episodes of the Royal Bavarian District Court and, among other things, had episode roles at the commissioner and the crime museum . His last role is likely to have been a guest appearance in the crime series Okay SIR , the shooting of which began in 1971, but which was not broadcast until 1973.

Occasionally Dornseif also worked as a radio play and dubbing actor, unlike his daughter, the actress Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif , who is extensively active in the dubbing business.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography at DEFA-Sternstunden , accessed on January 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Okay SIR on the crime thriller website , accessed on January 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Dornseif, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dornseif, Josef Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Borbeck
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1972
Place of death Munich