Kurt von Ruffin(1901-1996)
- Actor
Kurt Von Ruffin (born 1901, Munich, Germany, died 17 November 1996,
Berlin, Germany) was a German actor and opera singer who was imprisoned
by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality. Von Ruffin began his
career as a singer. After completing filming on Schwarzwaldmädel in
1933, Von Ruffin was denounced as a homosexual by another gay man who
named him under torture, and imprisoned at Lichtenburg, where many gay
men were imprisoned, for two years. After nine months in Lichtenburg,
Von Ruffin was released thanks to the intervention of prominent theatre
director Heinz Hilpert. From 1941 until the end of the war, he appeared
only on stage.
