Max Boessl
Max Bössl , actually Maximilian Bössl , (born November 7, 1925 in Augsburg ; † February 10, 1973 there ) was a German actor .
Life
Bößl came to the theater as a child . In 1931 he stood on a theater stage for the first time. At the Stadttheater Augsburg he played the smallest dwarf in his staging of the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs under the direction of Walter Oehmichen . Other children's roles followed: Cho-Cho-San's son in the opera Madama Butterfly , the little Mohren of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier , Tell's boys in Wilhelm Tell and Otnit (Etzel's son) in Die Nibelungen .
During the Second World War he was briefly drafted as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . After his return from the war, he joined an amateur theater group of the German Youth Activities Home (GYA) in Augsburg , which was then in the US zone of occupation , where he also met his future professional colleagues Manfred Jenning and Margot Kratzsch .
During the 1948/1949 season he was permanently committed to the Augsburger Puppenkiste by Walter Oehmichen and Manfred Jenning as actor, speaker and puppeteer . In the following ten years Boessl took part in numerous plays for the Augsburger Puppenkiste; as a puppet guide, but often mainly as a speaker. Among other things, he lent his voice to Urmel from the ice , Seppl in The Robber Hotzenplotz and the half-dragon Nepomuk in the Jim Knopf films. In 1956 he also directed the play The Stupid Iwanko . In the seasons 1964/1965 and 1965/1966 he was engaged again with a guest contract at the Augsburger Puppenkiste.
Other important roles were the tragic Suskewiet in The Triptych of the Three Kings (1958) and the cat Mikesch . Bössl took on roles at the Augsburger Puppenkiste until 1973, in particular as a spokesman for the television screen adaptations (including King Alfons the quarter-to-twelfth in the original 1961 version by Jim Knopf and Lukas the locomotive driver ), as well as in record productions .
In 1959 he played the dog in the movie Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten , produced by the production company Schongerfilm .
He died on February 10, 1973, at the age of only 47, of complications from his alcoholism .
Filmography (selection)
- 1959: The Bremen Town Musicians
- 1963: The Little Fat Knight Oblong-Fitz-Oblong (TV series)
- 1964: Kater Mikesch (TV series, speaking role)
- 1965: the lion is loose! (TV series)
- 1967: The Robber Hotzenplotz (TV, speaking role)
- 1967: The Museum Rats (TV series)
- 1969: Urmel from the Ice (TV series, speaking role)
- 1973: Wir Schildbürger (TV series, speaking role)
Web links
- Max Bößl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maximilian Bössl biography and list of roles
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boessl, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bössl, Maximilian (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1973 |
| Place of death | augsburg |