Max Hochstetter

Max Carl Conrad Hochstetter (born December 15, 1887 in Berlin ; † after 1959, presumably there) was a German actor on the stage and film.

Live and act

Born in Berlin, he attended high school until he graduated from high school and then took acting lessons with Georg Dröscher , actor at the Royal Drama, who brought Hochstetter, then 19, to this highly regarded stage in 1907. There Hochstetter made his debut with Melchthal in “ Wilhelm Tell ”. This was followed by engagements in Zittau, Vienna, St. Gallen, briefly at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the Volksbühne, which is also located in the capital of the Reich, and most recently, during the Second World War, at touring stages for troop support.

In the period of upheaval from the imperial era to the first German republic at the end of 1918, Max Hochstetter also began filming. Initially he was seen in the so-called educational films such as The Path That Leads to Damnation, which were highly popular at the time , and later in all sorts of other film genres. With the beginning of the Nazi era in 1933, Hochstetter could also be seen in a series of sound films, until he suddenly stopped working in front of the camera at the end of 1937.

Up to 1945 there is no evidence of Hochstetter's permanent engagement at the theater, but shortly after the end of the war he returned to the boards and became a member of the Rehberge open-air theater ensemble. Hochstetter has been particularly successful in Shakespeare plays, including Othello, Macbeth and Coriolanus. But he also played again in “ Wilhelm Tell ” and as master Anton in Hebbel's “ Maria Magdalene ”. Max Hochstetter can be proven to have lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf until 1960; but since he disappears from the register of the German stage yearbook in the course of the 1960s, he probably died in that decade.

Filmography

• 1918/19: The path that leads to damnation , two parts
• 1919: The struggle for marriage, two parts
• 1919: From a man's girlhood
• 1919: Demon of the World, 1st part
• 1920: The call from beyond
• 1921: White among cannibals
• 1922: Mignon
• 1925: The red mouse
• 1934: Wilhelm Tell
• 1934: Just don't get soft, Susanne!
• 1935: Pole Poppenspäler
• 1936: The robbery of the Sabine women
• 1936: A passionate doctor
• 1936: traitor
• 1936: Fridericus
• 1937: The glass ball
• 1937: Revolutionary wedding

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 290.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 679.

Web links

• Max Hochstetter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Max Hochstetter at filmportal.de