Thea Sandten

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Thea Sandten in a photograph by Alexander Binder

Thea Sandten (born Toni Wally Ansorge on June 30, 1884 in Breslau , German Reich ; died in January 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German silent film actress .

Live and act

Little is known about Thea Sandten's career. The artist, born in the Silesian capital of Breslau in 1884 , has been a theater actress since 1910, when she began her first permanent engagement at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischer Schauspielhaus . A little later she was brought in front of the camera. Sandten's first major success was in her film debut year 1912 with Antonie Adamberger in the patriotic drama Theodor Körner .

Thea Sandten, who appeared “throughout her entire career almost exclusively in 'women's films'” and was also committed to Italy for four productions in 1913, played key roles in a wide variety of dramatic stories. She often had a difficult fate to master or was rescued from great danger. Thea Sandten worked in her screen career, which lasted only ten years, alongside famous silent film colleagues such as Asta Nielsen , Hanni Weisse and Alexander Moissi .

Thea Sandten had her greatest success in 1916 when she played Homunculus in Richard Oswald's Hoffmanns stories (where she embodied Giulietta) and in Otto Rippert's horror story . With Tesa-Film Berlin, she owned a small production company at the beginning of the 1920s, but it only had a very low output. Soon afterwards, Thea Sandten's trail is lost.

Private and late years

Her first marriage to Alfred Jachmann, who was two years his junior, since August 1916, was divorced in May 1920. A second marriage in 1931 did not last long either. In the last year of peace in 1939, Thea Sandten married a Jewish citizen named Löwenstein and lived in the German capital until the end of 1942 under conditions that were becoming increasingly difficult for the couple. When the wave of deportations initiated by the National Socialists hit the remaining Jews in Berlin in the following winter, Sandten, who was last reported as Toni Löwenstein, was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on December 9, 1942, where she was presumably murdered in January 1943.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CineGraph, Delivery 56

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personal data
SURNAME Sandten, Thea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ansorge, Toni Wally (maiden name); Löwenstein, Toni (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp , present-day Poland