Claus Clausen (actor)
Claus Clausen ( born August 15, 1899 in Eisenach, † November 25, 1989 in Essen ), a son of the writer Ernst Clausen ( 1861-1912 ), was a German theater and film actor.
Life and work
In World War I soldier still, he debuted after high school in 1920 at the National Theatre. He went in 1924 to the Reuss Theater in Gera, 1927 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, 1929 at the Volksbühne in Berlin and 1930 at the New Theatre in Königsberg. Clausen's first film role was in 1930, lieutenant in the Western Front in 1918, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. 1933, the film was banned by the Nazis. That same year, Clausen returned to Berlin, where he played until 1938 at the Deutsches Theater and the State Theatre, then to 1944 at the Schiller Theater. From 1949 he also directed, among others at Berlin's Hebbel Theater in Berlin. He then worked at West German theaters and summer stages, so in Bochum, Bonn, Essen, Hanover, Wunsiedel and Wuppertal.