Biography

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" (1916), Hoffmanns Erzählungen" (1916) directed by Richard Oswald and "Ferdinand Lassalle" (1918).

The actress Thea Sandten was able to launch a successful career in the early days of the German silent movie era.

With the Tesa-Film Berlin, she owned a small production company at the beginning of the 1920s, but it had only a very low output.

In the last year of peace in 1939, Thea Sandten married a Jewish fellow citizen called Löwenstein and lived until the end of 1942 under very difficult conditions in the German Reichshauptstadt Berlin. When the deportation wave initiated by the National Socialists hit the still remaining Berlin Jews in the following winter, Thea Sandten, reported last as Toni Löwenstein, was dragged to the Auschwitz extermination camp on December 9, 1942, where she was murdered in Januar 1943.