Max Schreck

Maximilian "Max" Schreck ( born September 6, 1879 in Berlin, † February 20, 1936 in Munich) was a German actor whose lasting fame mainly to his title role in the silent film Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror is based.

Life

Max Schreck was born on September 6, 1879 in Berlin. He completed his acting training at the Berlin Staatstheater. After his training he spent two years on tour, including in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Lucerne, Gera and Frankfurt am Main. In 1910 he married actress Frances Ott, who henceforth Fanny Schreck called.

From 1919 to 1922 shock occurred at the intimate theater in Munich. In 1922, he was of the Prana film for the single production of this society, Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror committed. He played the vampire Count Orlok, who is looking for a house. This film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau brought him world a lasting reputation.

1923 Schreck played in Karl Grune's social drama The Street, 1925, he received rave reviews for the role of the pharmacist in Carl Boese war in peace, and in 1927 he was again seen at the edge of the world under Grune in the pacifist film.

He then returned to the chamber Games Munich. He worked both in theater and in other silent films together with Max Ophuls, Bert Brecht and Karl Valentin. Overall, he has appeared in over forty films in different roles ( for instance in "Knights of the Night" from the year 1928). The Abbé Faria in the German version of Rowland V. Lee's Count of Monte Cristo (1934 ), he also lent his voice. From the first until 28 February 1933, he stood on the stage of Erika Mann's cabaret " The Peppermill " in Munich " candy dish ". He wore in the second program of this anti-fascist cabaret before Erika 's text "The Cook ", a text on the all-powerful, dictatorial poisoners, no one is against the military: " Served from above eats mans yet. I 'm the cook. "

Schreck died unexpectedly at the age of 56 years, after he had been standing as the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos on stage. On March 14, 1936, he was buried in the Woodland Cemetery Wilmersdorf Güterfelde in Berlin (graveyard U -UR 670 ). 2011, a new grave stone was erected.

The legends about the " Vampire" also makes use of E. Elias Merhiges film production Shadow of the Vampire (2000 ), in which Willem Dafoe the mysterious Max Schreck embodied in a fictional history of the Murnau classic.

Filmography

Actor

Voice Actors

Trivia

• Christopher Walken plays in Batman Returns a character named Max Shreck.