He was born as Isidor Gesang in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director.
Gottowt made also several films with his brother-in-law Henrik Galeen but, as a Jew, was banned in 1933 from working as a professional actor. After a few years in Denmark he moved to Kraków in Poland. He was murdered in 1942 by the SS in Wieliczka.
8 ... (The Nazis renamed Schoenker's hometown Auschwitz.) Movie reviewsOpen link. Now deaf, Schoenker is an emotional, vigorous storyteller, recounting often through tears a series of near-death escapes, acts of kindness and upfront horrors — including witnessing the murder of family friend John Gottowt, an actor in F.W ... Add a comment. 0 ... None ... .