Max Drude

Max Drude ( April 3, 1845 in Bunzlau , Silesia - April 27, 1903 ) was a German theater actor .

Life

Drude, the son of a master mason, attended secondary school in Cologne until 1862, then worked as a geometer in Pomerania and the province of Saxony until 1864, after which he began his stage career on September 27, 1864 in Osterholz in Hanover with Ferdinand Basté's traveling company .

After four years with outpatient theaters in Holstein and Silesia, he came to the summer theater in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1868, whereupon he worked at the Breslau city theater until 1872, from where he began his engagement at the grand ducal court theater in Schwerin, after Seeburg ”in a white sheet and Chalisac had proven his qualifications for the role subject of the retiring Siegwart Friedmann .

And so now this artist worked in the field of serious and humorous character roles at this art institute, where he was definitely counted among the first-class actors. He was a true-to-nature actor who, with luck, used the observations made in life sharply and excellently on stage. An extraordinary stage routine was very beneficial to his artistic qualities and all of his roles could be praised for their fine understanding and taste, as well as warm tones of genuine cordiality. A look at his repertoire proved his very special versatility. For example, “Mephisto”, “Franz Moor”, “Shylock” and “Richard III” should be mentioned, which are characteristic of “Falstaff”, “Doctor Klaus”, “Giesecke” in the Weißen Rößl , “Müller Voss”, “Baron vd Egge” Faced. Drude was also a dialect artist, of which his "Uncle Bräsig" and his "Wurzelsepp" testify.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 215 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Stuhr : Annual report of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Schwerin, July 1, 1904, p. 27.

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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