Max Gülstorff
Max Walter Gülstorff ( born March 23, 1882 in Tilsit, † February 6, 1947 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
After acting with court actor Georg Link Gülstorff appeared at various theaters since 1900. After he had been in Rudolstadt on the stage, he came in 1908 at the New City Theater Cottbus, where he was engaged until 1911.
In 1911 he moved to Berlin and the Schiller Theater, 1915, he was brought by Max Reinhardt at the German theater. He also played at the Grosses Schauspielhaus, the comedy house and at the adult stage. He was seen especially in comic roles. In 1923 he went to Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he also worked as a director.
In 1916, he began his film career that was to last three decades. Gülstorffs performances were mostly short, he embodied above all petty bourgeois of all kinds, especially about proper officials. In the literature, adaptation The Broken Jug (1937 ) he was next to Emil Jannings the mischievous light scribe, in Feuerzangenbowle (1944 ) the chief inspector at inspectorate. One of his greatest film roles he took on in the farce Rape of the Sabine Women (1936 ) as the fearing for his reputation school professor Goll joke.
He was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Lichtenrader Paplitzer the road, where it has a grave of honor.