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- Birth nameWilly Knobloch
- Sebastian Droste was born in 1892 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920) and Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase (1923). He died on June 27, 1927 in Hamburg, Germany.
- He moved to Berlin in 1919, aged 27 and changed his name from Willy Knobloch to Sebastian Droste.
- Droste returned to his parents home in Hamburg in July 1927, he had tuberculosis and died a few weeks later at the age of 35.
- His father ran a family business making silk stockings in a factory in Chemnitz which allowed Willy a privileged upbringing. As a teenager he sought to escape his parents and enrolled in a local art school where he excelled in languages, physical culture and dance.
- In 1915 he was drafted into the army and most likely fought on the Western Front.
- Sebastian Droste (1892-1927) was a poet, actor and dancer connected with the gay and underworld subcultures of Berlin in the 1920s.
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