Max Hiller

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Julius Wilhelm Max Hiller , also known simply as Max Hiller or Max W. Hiller (born December 8, 1889 in Berlin , † December 17, 1948 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ), was a German theater and film actor .

Life

Hiller began his theater career in the 1910/11 season at the Stadttheater in Koblenz and initially continued to play in the German provinces (in Sondershausen) in the remaining years up to the outbreak of the First World War. During the war Hiller was already based in Berlin, where he began filming and also appeared in small venues such as the Sturm-und-Drang-Bühne in the early post-war period. For several years he did not find a permanent engagement, so that at times he switched entirely to film. As a result of the seizure of power in 1933, Hiller received several offers from the stage, for example in the first year of 1933 he played at the Komische Oper Berlin and later at the (National Socialist) Theater des Volkes. During the Second World War, Hiller was part of a guest performance director and went on Wehrmacht support tours .

In 1924, Max Hiller suddenly made a name for himself with the role of Maly Delschaft's bridegroom in FW Murnau's silent film classic The Last Man , but he was never able to follow up on this overwhelming critical success with another role or another film. Over the years, Hiller's screen appearances became smaller and smaller and were ultimately only in miniature format, whereby he shot several films with the directors Karl Ritter , Paul Martin and Detlef Sierck . He was often seen as a nameless batch, such as a registrar, court clerk, spectator, waiter, gendarme, soldier, farmer, member of parliament, courtship or, as in his last film, which was only released in theaters more than two years after Hiller's death, as a foreman. In Hiller's last years, an activity as a painter and sculptor enabled his economic survival.

Hiller had been married since 1921. The artist died of heart failure, decompensation and pulmonary edema.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to information from the Berlin State Archives of October 9, 2017 and Hiller's Reichsfilmkammerakte
  2. ↑ The most commonly read death date December 18, 1948 is wrong. According to the Berlin State Archives, Hiller died at 6 p.m. the day before.
  3. ^ Death certificate of the Berlin-Schmargendorf registry office dated December 18, 1948, No. 2149
personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiller, Julius Wilhelm Max (full name); Hiller, Max W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1948
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf