Serag Monier

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Serag Monier , in Egypt Seraj Munir or Siraj Munir (* July 15, 1904 in Cairo ; † March 1, 1957 ibid) was an Egyptian actor who worked intensively in German film in the last two years before the start of the Second World War .

Life

Monier traveled to Europe at a young age with the intention of studying medicine. On the side he learned several languages. In a self-description published in Germany a year later, he stated that he spoke German, English and French in addition to Arabic.

Initially, Monier worked as a teacher before he decided to switch to acting. Monier soon became a well-known figure at the Cairo State Theater, but initially rarely appeared in front of the camera. He came to Berlin in 1937 for the film controversy about the boy Jo , set in his home country , in which he played the Egyptian Prince Halim Pascha , where he was to stay until the beginning of 1939 and where he lived on Kurfürstendamm 203. The NS -Kino held, despite numerous applicable at that time, government restrictions against foreign and especially "non -Aryan " artists for the mime with the rather dark complexion an abundance of small roles - throughout as glutäugiger foreigners and "exotic" - ready . At the same time, Monier was trained as a director at the theater.

After returning to Cairo immediately before the start of the war in 1939, Monier, who now had plenty of camera experience, was regularly employed in the Egyptian film industry and has been making film on film since 1941: in the last 16 years of his life alone, he could be seen in around four dozen productions. He received predominantly leading or supporting supporting roles, preferably in dramas and historical material. Faten Hamama , Egypt's most popular film actress of those years, was his partner several times .

Serag Monier was married to the actress Mimi Shakeeb from 1942 until his unexpected death in early 1957.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1930: Zeinab
  • 1934: Ibn el shaab
  • 1937: Dispute over the boy Jo
  • 1937: With a sealed order
  • 1937: The Indian tomb
  • 1938: To be continued
  • 1938: Red orchids
  • 1938: Pour le Mérite
  • 1938: Napoleon is to blame for everything
  • 1939: Riots in Damascus
  • 1941: Sidi Omar
  • 1943: Al-sharaf ghali
  • 1945: Rhaba
  • 1946: El naeb el am
  • 1947: Assir el zalam
  • 1947: Abu Zeid el Hilali
  • 1948: Laital shababu
  • 1948: El wajeb
  • 1948: El bostagi
  • 1949: Kursi el iteraf
  • 1950: Bayumi effendi
  • 1951: Zuhour el islam
  • 1951: Amina
  • 1952: Ward el gharam
  • 1953: Lahn al knouloud
  • 1954: Wafaa
  • 1954: King of the Desert ( Fortune Carrée )
  • 1955: Laila min omri
  • 1955: El gassad
  • 1956: Shabab emraa
  • 1957: Port Said
  • 1957: Banat el yom

literature

  • Artist Almanac for Stage and Film 1938 . Ninth edition. Wilhelm Ritter Verlag, Berlin 1938, p. A 52.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1154 (only filmography).
  • 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. 16 (brief mention).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ both transcription versions from Arabic, there: سراج منير
  2. ↑ Date of birth according to the film archive Kay Less , based on original documents from the " Third Reich ". Another source names August 16, 1909 as the date, IMDb names "1901"
  3. ↑ Date of death according to Shoofeetv.com
  4. ^ Artist Almanac 1938 , p. A 52
  5. ↑ Self-description in Künstler-Almanach 1938 , p. A 52. K. Less: Between stage and barrack , p. 16
  6. ↑ the German Stage Yearbooks 1938 and 1939 list him in the register as a "game director candidate"
personal data
SURNAME Monier, Serag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munir, Seraj; Munir, Siraj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1957
Place of death Cairo