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- Died
- Fritz Junkermann was born on October 19, 1883 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Echte Perlen (1919), Alfreds Techtelmechtel (1919) and Die geborgte Villa (1918). He died on October 12, 1942 in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- He began his acting career on stage in 1906, later he also became a movie actor and cabaret artist.
- On 9.4.1942 Fritz Junkermann was castrated and there was a little help that Fritz Junkermann should avoid death penalty after this surgery. But only six months later he was killed in the gas chamber in Bernburg on October 12, 1942.
- In 1940 he was arrested on suspicion of homosexuality due to a testimony of a hustler. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison. But after the serving he was not released but brought by the Berlin criminal investigation department to the KZ Sachsenhausen in 1941.
- Fritz Junkermann inherited the artistic streak from his parents, the theater actors August Junkermann and Rosa Le Seur. His brother Hans Junkermann became also a well-known movie actor.
- His last cinematical works came at the beginning of the 20s into being. Afterwards he concentrated again to the stage where he remained successfully busy till 1940.
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