Max Ehrlich

Max Michaelis Ehrlich ( born December 7, 1892 in Berlin, † October 1, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a German comedian, actor and film director.

Life

Since 1911 Max Ehrlich received his education at Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, where he had his first appearance in 1912. In 1913 and from 1916 to 1920 he was engaged in Breslau. It developed in the 1920s to a successful comedian. His film debut came in 1926 with a supporting role in the silent film produced by Reinhold Schünzel In the home, there's a good-bye! After 15 other films for which he occasionally wrote the intertitles, followed in 1930 with a supporting role in Richard Oswald's Vienna, City of songs Ehrlich's first sound film. He became even more popular by the talkies, entered - except in short films such as Kurt Gerron cabaret program No. 2 and No. 6 (1931 ) and Heinz Hilles Who pays today? - But never in carrying on a roll. In 1932 he stood as a short film director often behind the camera.

As a Jew, Max Ehrlich was not retained after the Nazi accession to the throne in the kingdom of student council film and could therefore no longer work in Germany. He went to Vienna and after his performances were disturbed there, on to Switzerland and Holland. From the nostalgia driven, he returned in 1935 but returned to Germany, where he could occur in the context of the Jewish Cultural League under restricted conditions on. When the political situation, but further exacerbated by the November pogroms of 1938, he went in the following spring to Amsterdam, where he joined Willy Rosen's Jewish theater.

In May 1940, the neutral Netherlands were occupied by German troops. Max Ehrlich was arrested in 1943 and deported to the Dutch Westerbork transit camp. As head of a prisoner troops he could here some with prominent inmates develop and perform a series of skits and songs from stage programs:

With the penultimate deportation Ehrlich was taken on September 4, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto and from there to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in the gas chambers.

Filmography

Actor, unless otherwise indicated:

Writings

• Max Ehrlich: From Adalbert to Zilzer. Collected theater anecdotes. Eden -Verlag, Berlin, 1928.