Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Exil
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,1 (2006) 27-36
Keywords:
Danegger family
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Relates the fate of Josef Danegger (né Deutsch) and his children Josef, Theodor, and Mathilde. Josef the father was an actor in Berlin, Zürich, New York, and Vienna, where he died in January 1933. His son Josef, born in 1889, acted in Berlin in 1918-34, then left for Vienna, and in 1938 emigrated to Switzerland. His daughter Mathilde, born in 1903, acted in Berlin and Vienna, and emigrated to Switzerland in 1933. Only Theodor, born in 1891, tried to continue his career in Germany. He acted from 1913 in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt. At first he was registered as a half-Jew, but with the help of his Aryan mother, in 1937, he obtained a certificate stating that he was the illegitimate son of an Aryan. This certificate enabled him to continue working in theater and film until April 1939 when the authorities cancelled the permit and declared him a half-Jew again. However, film producers were not willing to give up employing him and his lawyer succeeded in an appeal. Danegger pursued his acting career until 1943, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for homosexuality.
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