Siegfried Dessauer

{{short description|German actor, film director and screenwriter}}

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| birth_date = 20 September 1874

| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

| death_date = 1956

| death_place = Sydney, Australia

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| occupation = Director, Writer

| yearsactive = 1919-1933 (film )

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Siegfried Dessauer (1874–1956) was a German screenwriter and film director.Prawer p.212 As a Jew he was expelled from the Nazi Reich Chamber of Film in 1938. Until February 1945 he lived in Wittenau, then moved to Hermsdorf. After the Second World War he emigrated to Australia in 1947.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.