Max Jungk
Max Jungk (born May 27, 1872 in Miskowitz , † July 1937 in Prague ; born David Baum ) was an Austrian theater actor and screenwriter .
Life
Jungk made his acting debut in Teplitz in 1897 and then played in Czernowitz (1899), Innsbruck (1900), Klagenfurt (1901), Troppau (1902) and Olmütz (1904). In Troppau he also worked as a director.
In 1903 he performed for the first time in Berlin . From 1918 he wrote film scripts, mostly in collaboration with Julius Urgiß . At first he concentrated on criminal material, later sensational stories and comedies were added. In 1926 his book Behind the World was published , in which he described his travels to Iceland and the Arctic Ocean. A German citizen since 1931 and exposed to increasing persecution as a Jew from 1933 onwards, he and his wife Sara followed their son Robert Jungk to Prague in 1936 .
He was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague .
Filmography
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literature
- Robert Jungk : Still. My life for the future. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna 1993, pp. 9–150.
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 248 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Jungk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Jungk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Jungk, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tree, david (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater actor and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miskovice |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1937 |
| Place of death | Prague |