- He began his acting career on stage in 1906, later he also became a movie actor and cabaret artist.
- On 9.4.1942 Fritz Junkermann was castrated and there was a little help that Fritz Junkermann should avoid death penalty after this surgery. But only six months later he was killed in the gas chamber in Bernburg on October 12, 1942.
- In 1940 he was arrested on suspicion of homosexuality due to a testimony of a hustler. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison. But after the serving he was not released but brought by the Berlin criminal investigation department to the KZ Sachsenhausen in 1941.
- Fritz Junkermann inherited the artistic streak from his parents, the theater actors August Junkermann and Rosa Le Seur. His brother Hans Junkermann became also a well-known movie actor.
- His last cinematical works came at the beginning of the 20s into being. Afterwards he concentrated again to the stage where he remained successfully busy till 1940.
- Junkermann was a German theatre and silent film actor as well as a cabaret artist and lecture artist.
- In the 1930s, the actress Sigrid Salten was on tour with him at home and abroad.
- At the KZ Sachsenhausen in he had himself 'neutered' in 1941to prevent his murder. Fritz Junkermann was operated on 9 April 1942 but was allegedly deported to Dachau at the beginning of August 1942. In reality, he was taken to the Bernburg killing centre, where Junkermann was gassed on 5 October 1942.
- After an absence of four years in 1921-1925, Fritz Junkermann's last film role was a supporting one in the two-part film Der Erste Stand. Der Großkapitalist/The first stand. The big capitalist (Rolf Raffé, 1925) starring Junkermann's brother, Hans.
- He was active between 1906 and 1940 and acted in several silent films between 1918 and 1921.
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