Robert Dorsay

Robert Dorsay
Born
Robert Stampa

16 August 1904
Bremen
German Empire
Died29 October 1943 (1943-10-30) (aged 39)
Berlin
Nazi Germany
Occupations
  • Film actor
  • dancer
  • singer

Robert Dorsay (16 August 1904 – 29 October 1943) was a German actor, dancer, and singer who was executed in October 1943 for defeatism and defamation of National Socialism.

Life

The only son of the opera singer Paul Stampa and the soprano Dora Stampa, née Weiss, spent his childhood and youth in Bremen, Würzburg, Kissingen and finally in Berlin. He began his stage career in Austria and moved to Munich in 1927. Dora Weiss wore the stage name Dorsay, which her son later adopted.

Robert Stampa appeared on stage for the first time in the late 1920s. At the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich he appeared as a singer and ballet dancer in 1928; from 1929 to 1931 he worked there as a singer and ballet master. From 1933 he played at the Nuremberg Intimate Theater, from 1934 he belonged to the ensemble of the Berlin "Cabaret of Comedians" on Kurfürstendamm and acted in many films, e.g. with Gustaf Gründgens, Zarah Leander, Theo Lingen, Margit Symo (mother of Tatort actress Eva Mattes ) or Anny Ondra.

From 1935 he was engaged as a comedian in the cabaret at the Theater am Admiralspalast in Berlin. His love was for swing, his preference for political jokes. From 1936 to 1939 he appeared in various, mostly small, roles in film.

“Robert Dorsay",as he now called himself, tried to come to terms with the regime; so he joined the NSDAP on 1 August 1932. On the other hand, he kept a comedic distance and also used Hitler jokes and imitations in public to friends. On 1 September 1933 he was expelled from the party because of overdue payments of membership fees. Dorsay himself did not rejoin the party despite the persuasion of Reich Chamber of Culture official Hans Hinkel. Nevertheless, he was able to perform until the early 1940s and was properly registered with the Reich Chamber of Culture. Nevertheless, Dorsay's attitude was to have professional consequences, because from 1939 his film engagements were discontinued."[1]

Execution

In 1939 he married Louise Mentkes. In 1941 Dorsay was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a driver. In March 1943, while on leave from home, he caught the eye of a Gestapo informer while telling a political joke in the restaurant of the Deutsches Theater. This is the joke the Gestapo informant observed Robert Dorsay telling on stage. "Hitler enters a town & a young girl approaches him offering him a handful of dust. "what am I supposed to do with this?" asks Hitler looking puzzled. And the young girl answers. "Everyone says,when the fuhrer bites the dust, everything will get better." This joke is what also had fatal consequences for Robert Dorsay. A death sentence for undermining the war effort.

His correspondence was then checked. On 31 March a letter from Osterode to his friend Eddy Haase was intercepted in Berlin, in which he wrote:"When will this idiocy finally end?" He was arrested and sentenced to death on 8 October 1943 for undermining military force and sent to Plötzensee where he was executed. The death sentence was intended to deter other artists; his name was systematically removed from the opening credits of the films in which he had acted.

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.
  • Schulte-Sasse, Linda. Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema. Duke University Press, 1996.

References

  1. ^ "Stolpersteine Bremen".


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