Alfred Maack

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Alfred Maack (born April 5, 1882 in Hamburg , † February 14, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Alfred Maack had completed a commercial apprenticeship at the turn of the century and then trained at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in his home town of Hamburg. On October 15, 1902, he began his career at the “Tivoli Theater”, and before the First World War he also worked as a director at the “Schillertheater” in the neighboring city of Altona / Elbe, which at that time did not belong to Hamburg . After the war Maack worked at the Hamburg “Volksoper” and again in Altona, this time as director of the “Theater des Westens”.

During the Nazi era Maack followed a call to the Berlin “ Theater am Nollendorfplatz ” in 1934, a little later he also worked at the “ Lessing Theater ” and appeared in front of the camera for the first time in January 1937 with the Landsturmmann in the film adaptation of Karl Bunje's military swank Der Etappenhase . The beefy, bald-headed Hanseatic man covered the entire range of North German grumpy, sometimes humorous types: sailors, fishermen and all kinds of simple contemporaries. Mostly it was about minor and minor roles. At the end of the war, Maack was put on the God-gifted list.

After the Second World War, Maack, who lived in West Berlin (Lichterfelde), found regular employment with DEFA in the GDR. With the old river boatman Hein Borchert in the DEFA production Alter Kahn und Junge Liebe , the elderly artist also received a rare leading role a few years before his death.

He also worked at venues such as the “ Volksbühne ”, the “ Theater am Schiffbauerdamm ”, the “Residenztheater” or the “Rehberge open-air theater”.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 454.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1046.
  • F.-B. Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , p. 211.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 208.

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personal data
SURNAME Maack, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1961
Place of death Berlin , Germany