Wilhelm Endtresser

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Wilhelm Endtresser , also Willi Endtresser or Willy Endtresser , (born July 21, 1895 in Wiesbaden , † 1964 in Berlin ) was a German actor , singer and cabaret artist .

Life

Wilhelm Endtresser came from a Berlin theater family. He received his acting training from 1910 to 1914 at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin. He then had engagements as an actor and operetta singer at various theaters. From the 1920s he worked regularly in Berlin. In the 1921/22 season he was engaged there at the cabaret “Potpurri”, in the 1927/28 season at the Trianon Theater (Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Straße) and 1931–1933 at the Metropol-Theater (Rotter-Bühnen). Until 1933, Endtresser also worked as an actor and assistant director for films.

In 1933 Endtresser was dismissed from the Metropoltheater. From 1934 he worked as a sales representative for textiles at a Berlin company. In January 1937 he was arrested for political reasons; from February to March 1937 he was interned in the Berlin-Moabit remand prison. He was then admitted to the psychiatric sanatorium in Berlin-Wittenau for two months until the end of May 1937 "for examination" . After his release, as a “ half-Jew ”, he was finally banned from working as an actor, which was actually enforced through his exclusion from the Reich Theater Chamber (RTK) and the Reich Film Chamber (RFK).

Endtresser then worked again as a representative in his previous company. In 1939 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht . With a long break due to illness (September 1940 to January 1942) he was a soldier from September 1939 to March 1942 . In August 1940, Endtresser applied to the RTK for a special permit to return to work, which was rejected in October 1941 because of his "Jewish origin". From 1942 he worked as an office worker and salesman in a radio business. In 1943 and 1944 he was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for a total of four months . He was then in a Berlin construction company for the removal of bomb damage conscripted . In December 1944 he received a call-up to a construction team of the Todt Organization deployed near the front . However, he did not obey this new position order and remained in hiding until the end of the Second World War .

After 1945 Endtresser resumed his career as an actor and operetta singer. He founded his own touring stage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , the artist's game “Die Bonbonniere”, with which he went on tour with operetta revues, cabaret programs and variety events. From the beginning of the 1950s, Endtresser lived in Berlin again. He took on small film roles, also at DEFA , often batches , as a railroad worker, furniture packer, newspaper seller, civil servant and the like. a. whose appearances were limited to a few short scenes.

Endtresser probably died in Berlin in 1964. The handbook of the German-speaking exile theater 1933–1945 notes the date of his death with a question mark .

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SURNAME Endtresser, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Endtresser, Willi; Endtresser, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, singer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Berlin