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Mohamed Husen
Acteur/trice
Allemagne, Tanzanie
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Acteur (tanzanien).
Né sous le nom de Bayume Muhammed Hussein, le 22 Février 1904 à Dar es Salaam (Afrique de l’Est allemand, actuelle Tanzanie)
Il meurt (assassiné) le 24 Novembre 1944 (à l’âge de 40) au Camp de Concentration de Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Allemagne).
Né sous le nom de Bayume Muhammed Hussein, le 22 Février 1904 à Dar es Salaam (Afrique de l’Est allemand, actuelle Tanzanie)
Il meurt (assassiné) le 24 Novembre 1944 (à l’âge de 40) au Camp de Concentration de Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Allemagne).
English
Born:
Bayume Muhammed Hussein
February 22, 1904 in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa [now Tanzania]
Died:
November 24, 1944 (age 40) in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
Bayume Muhammed Hussein was born on February 22nd, 1904 in Dar es Salaam (now Tanzania), the son of an Askari soldier in the German « Schutztruppe ». Working as a clerk from the age of ten, he served in the German colonial forces in World War I. He was severely wounded and spent some time in a POW camp in Nairobi.
After the war, he worked on several overseas steamships until he decided to sign off while in Germany in 1929 to fight for his pension, but without success. At least, his status as an Askari was recognized and he was naturalized as « Mohamed Husen ». He worked alternately as a waiter and as a Swahili instructor, educating personnel for the Nazis’ covert (yet short-lived) colonial ambitions. Additionally, he appeared in a number of films, mostly playing an Askari. In 1932, he married German Maria Schwadner; they had three children.
Already in 1933, all of the family had lost their German citizenship, and Husen’s situation under state-promoted racism became more and more difficult. In 1935, he lost his job as a waiter at the intervention of fellow-workers who refused to work with him, and as a language instructor, he never advanced from his least-paid status although being a native speaker. Husen nevertheless tried to prove his loyalty by volunteering at the outbreak of World War II, but his proposal was turned down. In September 1941, he was accused of having an affair and a child with an « Aryan » woman from the set. There was no-one to step in for him, and there was no trial. His wife was forced to divorce him, and Husen was brought to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died on November 24th, 1944. His grave is on Berlin-Reinickendorf’s Cemetery for the Victims of War and Violence.
His eldest son named Bodo died in an air raid, the fate of his divorced wife and of his other children is not known.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom B.
www.imdb.com/name/nm1687826/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Filmography (as Actor)
1941 Pedro soll hängen
Character: Pfleger
1941 Carl Peters
Character: Ramasan
1939 La femme aux tigres
Character: Ein Gast im Lokal
1938 Sergent Berry (uncredited)
1938 Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen
Character: Servant
1938 Un soir d’escale
Character: Kameltreiber
1938 5 Millionen suchen einen Erben
Character: Liftboy
1938 Verklungene Melodie
Character: Ein Zeitungsverkäufer in New York
1938 Schüsse in Kabine 7
1937 Paramatta, bagne de femmes
Character: Farbiger Diener des Gouverneurs
1934 Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
Character: Signalschüler Mustapha
Bayume Muhammed Hussein
February 22, 1904 in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa [now Tanzania]
Died:
November 24, 1944 (age 40) in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
Bayume Muhammed Hussein was born on February 22nd, 1904 in Dar es Salaam (now Tanzania), the son of an Askari soldier in the German « Schutztruppe ». Working as a clerk from the age of ten, he served in the German colonial forces in World War I. He was severely wounded and spent some time in a POW camp in Nairobi.
After the war, he worked on several overseas steamships until he decided to sign off while in Germany in 1929 to fight for his pension, but without success. At least, his status as an Askari was recognized and he was naturalized as « Mohamed Husen ». He worked alternately as a waiter and as a Swahili instructor, educating personnel for the Nazis’ covert (yet short-lived) colonial ambitions. Additionally, he appeared in a number of films, mostly playing an Askari. In 1932, he married German Maria Schwadner; they had three children.
Already in 1933, all of the family had lost their German citizenship, and Husen’s situation under state-promoted racism became more and more difficult. In 1935, he lost his job as a waiter at the intervention of fellow-workers who refused to work with him, and as a language instructor, he never advanced from his least-paid status although being a native speaker. Husen nevertheless tried to prove his loyalty by volunteering at the outbreak of World War II, but his proposal was turned down. In September 1941, he was accused of having an affair and a child with an « Aryan » woman from the set. There was no-one to step in for him, and there was no trial. His wife was forced to divorce him, and Husen was brought to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died on November 24th, 1944. His grave is on Berlin-Reinickendorf’s Cemetery for the Victims of War and Violence.
His eldest son named Bodo died in an air raid, the fate of his divorced wife and of his other children is not known.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom B.
www.imdb.com/name/nm1687826/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Filmography (as Actor)
1941 Pedro soll hängen
Character: Pfleger
1941 Carl Peters
Character: Ramasan
1939 La femme aux tigres
Character: Ein Gast im Lokal
1938 Sergent Berry (uncredited)
1938 Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen
Character: Servant
1938 Un soir d’escale
Character: Kameltreiber
1938 5 Millionen suchen einen Erben
Character: Liftboy
1938 Verklungene Melodie
Character: Ein Zeitungsverkäufer in New York
1938 Schüsse in Kabine 7
1937 Paramatta, bagne de femmes
Character: Farbiger Diener des Gouverneurs
1934 Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
Character: Signalschüler Mustapha
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