Robert Dorsay

Robert Dorsay ( born August 16, 1904 in Bremen as Robert Stampa, † October 29, 1943 in Berlin- Plotzensee ) was a German singer, dancer and actor.

Life

The son of opera singer Paul Stampa began his stage career in Austria and moved to Munich in 1927. From 1929 to 1931 he was a singer and ballet master at the Theater am Gaertnerplatz. From 1933 he played at the Nuremberg intimate theater and from 1935 at the Theater at Admiral Palace in Berlin, where he was engaged at the cabaret as a comedian. His love was paid to the swing, his penchant political jokes. From 1936 to 1939 he appeared in various, mostly small roles in the film.

Dorsay was from 1 August 1932 to the exclusion because of lagging contributions on September 1, 1933 member of the NSDAP. In 1939 he married Louise Mentkes. 1941 Dorsay was drafted into the army and served as a truck driver. In March 1943, he fell during a home leave in the telling political jokes in the restaurant of the Deutsches Theater in a Gestapo spy. Then you controlled his correspondence. On March 31, a letter from Osterode to his friend Eddy Haase was intercepted in Berlin, in which he wrote: ". Finally prevents When is this idiocy " He was arrested and sentenced to death on October 8, 1943 for undermining the war effort and in Plotzensee executed. The death sentence should deter other artists. His name was removed from the Vorspännen the films in which he had participated.

Filmography

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