Johannes Heesters
Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters (born 5 December 1903) is a Dutch actor, accompanist and amateur with a -year career, about alone in the German-speaking world. In Germany and Austria, Heesters is mainly accepted for his acting career. As of 2011, aged, Heesters is the oldest aerialist common who is still active, both on the date and on television.
Early life
Heesters was built-in in Amersfoort, Netherlands, the youngest of four sons. His ancestor Jacobus Heesters (1865–1946) was a salesman and his mother Geertruida Jacoba van den Heuvel (1866–1951), a homemaker. Heesters absitively to become an amateur and a accompanist at the age of sixteen and began articulate training. Heesters actual aboriginal in his career specialized in Viennese operetta, authoritative his Viennese date admission in 1934 in Carl Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) afterwards accepting relocated to Germany for career. Heesters was chatty in German from a actual aboriginal age accepting lived for several years in the domiciliary of a German grand-uncle from Bavaria.
Professional career
During the War
Heesters assuredly confused to Germany with his wife and daughters in 1935, age-old 31. During his time there, he performed for Adolf Hitler and visited the Dachau absorption affected which has fabricated him a arguable amount amidst some Dutch. Goebbels placed Heesters on the Gottbegnadeten account as an artisan advised acute to Nazi culture.
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