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- Siegfried Dessauer was born on September 20, 1874 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die Eidechse (1919), Stahlplatte 1517 (1919) and Der Tote Mann (1919). He died in May 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
- Besides his activity as a director Siegfried Dessauer also wrote several screenplays.
- Many of his adventure and action movies were very popular at that time.
- Siegfried Dessauer lived in Berlin and his tracks went lost in the last days of the battle in Berlin in 1945.
- Because he was a Jew his film career came to a complete stop with the rise of the National Socialists in 1933. Thank to his marriage with an "Aryan" he was not deported but he was no longer able to work in the artistic field.
- The director Siegfried Dessauer joined a traveling theater after his school education where he went on tour through Germany as an actor. Finally he got engagements at well-known theaters in Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin. Finally he joined the still young film business and made first experiences as a director assistant before he realised his first movies as a director himself from 1913.
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