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Thea Sandten

Picture Thea Sandten
Foto: Alexander Binder (1888-1929)

1884 - 1943

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The actress Thea Sandten was born as Toni Wally Ansorge in Breslau. She began her artistic career at the theater where she had her first performances at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischen Theater. Other engagements followed.

Thea Sandten was able to launch a successful career in the early days of the German silent movie era.
To her first movies belong "Komödianten" (12) mit Asta Nielsen, "Mannequins" (13), "Der Schuss um Mitternacht" (14), "Die beiden Rivalen" (14) and "Kulissenzauber" (15).

In the second half of the 10's followed the height of her career and she took part in many successful productions.
To these movies belong "Homunculus, 6. Teil - Das Ende des Homunculus" (16) with Olaf Fönss, "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" (16) directed by Richard Oswald, "Ferdinand Lassalle" (18), "Die Rose von Dschiandur" (18) with Friedrich Zelnik and "Kampf um die Ehe" (19).

At the beginning of the 20's came her last movies into being with "Der ewige Mönch im Banne der Musik" (20), "Die Vielgeliebte" (21) and "Das Licht um Mitternacht" (22).

She was married three times, her last husband Mr. Löwenstein was a Jew. In the National Socialist Germany Thea Löwenstein-Sandten became a target and she was arrested in 1942 and brought to the KZ Auschwitz. There she was murdered the next year
 

Other movies with Thea Sandten: 
Europäisches Sklavenleben (12) Auf dornigen Pfaden (12) Theodor Körner (12) Die Nacht zuvor (13) Der Mann mit den drei Fingern (13) Gelbstern (13) Ein Mädchen zu verschenken (13) Zweite Tür links (14) O, du mein Österreich (15) Und das Wissen ist der Tod (15) Um ihres Kindes Glück (15) Die büssende Magdalena (15) Der Trödler von Prag (15) Schicksalswende (15) Die Schwester vom Roten Kreuz (15) Seine Jugendsünde (16) Schweigepflicht (16) Das Opfer einer Frau (16) Mexikanische Wirren (16) Aus dem Buche des Lebens (16) Küsse, die töten (16) Aretes Ferienreise (17) Der Saratogakoffer (17) Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska (17) Vergilbte Briefe (17) Zerstörte Ideale (17) Rasputin (17) Das Mädel aus tausend und einer Nacht (18) Ein rätselhafter Blick (18) Der Augenblick des Glücks (18) Die Prinzessin Adina/Tänzerin Adina (19) as Schicksal der Margarete Holberg (19) Fürstenliebe (19) Schundliteratur (19) Kronprinz Rudolph oder: Das Geheimnis von Mayerling (19) Ein Tropfen schwarzes Blut (19)


 
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