Siegfried Dessauer

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Siegfried Simon Julius Hans Dessauer (* 20th September 1874 in Berlin , † probably May 1945 in Berlin) was a German actor , manager , film director and screenwriter .

Life

After graduating from secondary school (Obersekunda), Dessauer began a wandering life at Schmierenbühnen in the early 1890s. Later there were engagements at more renowned theaters in Cologne , Hanover , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.

After a good twenty years of theater activity, Dessauer switched to film as an assistant director in the early 1910s. In 1914 he was engaged as a film director by the production company ' Imperator-Film ' for six years. Dessauer's specialty was sensationalism, adventure stories with an exotic background, melodramas, detective series and patriotic epic epics. After he was barely able to get directing assignments in the second half of the 1920s - the last staging of importance: a film adaptation of the popular ' Hauptmann von Köpenick ' material - Siegfried Dessauer had to be content with the job of a unit manager several times . In the first three years of sound film 1930–33 he was in charge of this role a. a. the productions “ Ash Wednesday ”, “ Schneider Wibbel ”, “ Service is service ”, “ No celebration without Meyer ”, “ Ballhaus Goldener Engel ”, “ Annemarie, the bride of the company ” and “ The innocence of the country ”, his last cinema activity.

When the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, Dessauer's cinematic activities ended and the Jewish director was banned from working. On 25/26 In July 1938 the veteran, who had long since ceased to be active, was expelled from the Reichsfilmkammer , the official reason being: “ not Aryan ” ( Reichsfilmkammer 926 Jewish lists ). However, he remained in Berlin, protected from deportation by his marriage to an “Aryan” who was six years his junior, until February 1945 in the Wittenau district . His last sign of life comes from May 1945, when Dessauer was registered in the Berlin district of Hermsdorf (discovered during a house inspection). There his track is lost. He may have died in the turmoil of the transition from the last acts of war to the armistice in the capital.

Filmography (director)

  • 1913: From a man's girlhood (actors only)
  • 1914: The city of the disappeared
  • 1914: The Railroad Under the Ocean (co-director)
  • 1915: Sweet Nelly
  • 1915: Under the spell of another's will
  • 1915: Around 500,000 marks
  • 1915: Satan Opium
  • 1916: The secret of the diamond fields
  • 1916: The black-white-red flag waved proudly
  • 1916: Between half past ten and eleven
  • 1917: The flaming circle
  • 1917: Olga Orginska's confession
  • 1917: The King of the Night
  • 1918: The crazy hotel room
  • 1918: The iron cage
  • 1918: The fakir
  • 1919: Demon of the World, Part 2
  • 1919: children of love
  • 1920: The Lizard (also screenplay)
  • 1920: Criminal Police, 'Murder' Department (also co-script)
  • 1920: Professor Berton's invention
  • 1921: The woman with the ten masks, 3 parts
  • 1921/22: shame
  • 1922: The novel of a half-world lady
  • 1922: The cry from below
  • 1922: The life roulette
  • 1923: The Fool and the Others (actors only)
  • 1925: women and banknotes (actors only)
  • 1926: The Captain von Köpenick (also screenplay)
  • 1929: You give yourself roses when you're in love
  • 1930: There are still cavaliers (short film)
  • 1932: It was nice (short film)
  • 1932: The bladder in love

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. 90.

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