Max Ferner

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Max Ferner , also known as Max Sommer (born April 18, 1881 ; † October 5, 1940 in Munich ), was a German theater actor , writer and screenwriter .

Live and act

Furthermore, since the turn of the century he had been on stage at home and played at well-known Munich institutions such as the Volkstheater and the Schauspielhaus theater. Later he occasionally worked as a senior director (director). Far more important are his contributions as a writer. In collaboration with his Munich colleagues Max Neal and Christian Flüggen , also wrote a number of popular comedies and Schwänken, which were also filmed several times in later years, including Theodor and The Three Village Saints .

From 1924, Max Ferner was also engaged as a dramaturge and screenwriter for the remaining five years of silent film from his Munich employer, Emelka . His specialty was initially that of pompous romances, soulful love stories, but also comedy and two Stuart Webbs crime novels. Max Ferner himself wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's love drama Der Bergadler , which the Brit staged in the Emelka Studios. In later years he was mainly involved in the creation of historical and historicizing film material, including Rolf Raffé's Das Schicksal der von Habsburg and Karl Grune's productions Marquis d'Eon, the Spy of Pompadour and Waterloo (all 1928). Furthermore, there was almost no use in sound film.

Filmography

Works (selection)

literature

  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, born in 1942. Obituary on p. 110
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 397.

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personal data
SURNAME Furthermore, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Summer, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1881
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1940
Place of death Munich