Viktor Senger

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Viktor Alexander Ludwig Senger , also Victor Senger , ( August 11, 1870 in Darmstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse - June 25, 1942 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a German theater and film actor .

Life

Senger, son of the actor couple Alexander and Maria Senger , took up a commercial profession after graduating from high school and entered a tobacco shop in Bremen, where he worked for three years. Then he went to the USA. There he was drawn to the stage. His first engagement took him to the Irving Place Theater in New York . He made his debut on the occasion of a guest appearance by Josef Kainz in Romeo as "Apotheker". Stations in Milwaukee and Chicago followed . Since he preferred German to English, he returned to Europe. He then played in Annaberg, Freiburg and at the Berlin theater before he was engaged for two years in the role of youthful hero at the Residenztheater Hannover. This was followed by a two-year engagement at the Meiningen court theater . In 1900 and 1901 he went on tour with Agnes Sorma across Europe, a. a. to Holland, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Romania. After finishing, he was engaged at the Munich theater.

In 1901 he married his colleague Gisela Fischer .

From 1914 he appeared as a film actor.

His brother was the actor Heinz Senger , his stepmother the opera singer Katharina Senger-Bettaque .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. Berlin-Schöneberg registry office : death register . No. 2261/1942.

Remarks

  1. According to Eisenberg and IMDb, he was born in 1870, according to filmportal.de in 1868