Werner Scharf

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Werner Scharf (born September 19, 1906 in Leipzig , † April 30, 1945 in Rathenow ) was a German actor who appeared in over 40 feature films.

The son of the PhD chemist Fritz Scharf attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1917 , which he left in 1926 with the school-leaving certificate. In 1926/27 he received acting lessons from Ernst Legal . He began his stage career at this time at the Hessisches Landestheater Darmstadt . He started his first engagement in 1927 at the State Theater in Kassel .

In 1932 he appeared for the first time in Berlin with an engagement at the Komödienhaus . In the 1930s and early 1940s he took part in many films in which he portrayed elegant, but often dodgy and unsympathetic men. He wrote the manuscript for the film Front Theater . Scharf was drafted into the Volkssturm in 1944 and fell in the fighting in the greater Berlin area in the last days of the war.

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  1. ↑ according to Kay Less : The film's large personal dictionary . Various secondary sources give 1905 as the year of birth.
  2. ^ Queen-Carola-Gymnasium Leipzig: Teachers and students directory 1921/22 , Leipzig 1922
  3. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical directory of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola High School in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 32. This source also gives 1906 as the year of birth. At that time he lived at Kronprinzstraße (from 1945: Kurt-Eisner-Straße) 70.
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SURNAME Sharp, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1945
Place of death Rathenow