Max Behrend

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Max Behrend (born March 17, 1862 in Kolberg , † February 3, 1927 in Darmstadt ) was a German theater actor , director , director and writer .

Life

The son of a doctor decided in 1881 for the stage profession. Behrend took lessons from Gustav Berndal and began his acting career in Eisenach, then went to Sondershausen, Halle, Graz, Breslau, Brno, Riga, Prague, Cologne, undertook an Orient tour, came to Bremen in 1896, to the Schillertheater in 1898 and first in 1900 Director and character actor at the German Theater in London, where he was also entrusted with the artistic direction of the stage. In 1901 he embodied "Nathan" and "Mephisto" for the first time on English soil in German.

He was also engaged in writing and wrote a number of opera libretti and small plays that were presented in Cologne, Halle, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, etc.

He had been artistic director in Mainz since 1905 and 1906. In 1912 he succeeded Emil Claar as artistic director of the Frankfurt theater and stayed there until 1916. The events of World War I heralded Behrend's withdrawal from the theater: "The difficult time, the worry about his the only son who was badly wounded during the first fighting, his nerves shattered so that he had to seek healing in a sanatorium. He retired to Eberstadt an der Bergstrasse and from then on devoted himself to promoting young talent. "

Max Behrend was married to the etcher Johanna Croisel van der Kop.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Argonaut ship : Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society Berlin and Mainz eV, volumes 1–3, Aufbau-Verlag, 1992, p. 157.
  2. ^ Rolf Dörrlamm: Theater in Mainz, from the Romans to the present: for the 150th anniversary of the municipal theaters. Publishing house Dr. Hanns Krach, 1983, ISBN 978-3-87439-095-8 .
  3. ↑ according to Kosch and Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1928.
  4. ↑ cit. n. Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1928, obituary on p. 103.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Eisenberg and Kosch, in the obituary of the Deutscher Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1928 the year 1863 is mentioned

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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personal data
SURNAME Behrend, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director, director and stage writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1927
Place of death Darmstadt