Werner Siedhoff
Werner Siedhoff (born May 3, 1899 in Duisburg , † November 28, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German actor .
Life
Born in Duisburg, he began his artistic career in the 1920s as an actor, dancer and pantomime at the Bauhaus in Dessau . Siedhoff was already around 30 years old when he received his first permanent engagement in the field of classical drama. From then on he played on stages in the German provinces, starting with Osnabrück . Commitments to Gera , Plauen and Frankfurt am Main followed , where he arrived in the middle of the war (1942). Siedhoff was to remain loyal to the theaters there until his death.
His first wife, the Bauhaus designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher , was killed in an air raid in 1944.
Siedhoff's best-known theater roles (all at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt) include Savary in Victorien Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne , the General in Der Hauptmann und seine Held , Sumata in Das kleine Teehaus , Niko Makezda in Bert Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and the jailer in William Shakespeare's Two Kinds of Measure .
Since the early 1960s, the artist with the distinctive white whiskers and goatee was seen in a number of television games, including literary adaptations such as Schinderhannes and Trauer muss Elektra . As a rule, Siedhoff embodied gnarled and weird old types of all kinds in front of the camera.
Siedhoff had three children; his son Joost Siedhoff also works as an actor.
Filmography
- 1963: The Datterich
- 1964: Apollo Bellac
- 1967: a stranger knocks
- 1968: Schinderhannes
- 1969: The green night of Ziegenberg
- 1969: Let it stay
- 1969: The Piskov Riddle
- 1970: Elektra has to bear grief
- 1972: The Datterich
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 695.
Web links
- Werner Siedhoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date and place of birth according to the Kay Less film archive
- ↑ Date and place of death according to Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siedhoff, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1976 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |