Max Landa
Max Landa (actually: Max Landau ; born April 24, 1873 in Minsk , Russian Empire ; † November 9, 1933 in Bled , Yugoslavia ) was an Austrian stage and silent film actor .
Life
Landa received his acting training from Karl Arnau . He made his debut at various traveling stages in 1899, then went to Hanover , from where he was hired to the German Theater in Berlin and finally, as the first hero and lover, to the Breslau Theater , where he also directed the summer theater. Most recently he played at various Berlin theaters, including the Lessing Theater , the German Art Theater and the Small Theater (on the Berlin Southwest Parade).
He began his career as a film actor in 1911. In 1913 he acted in The Suffragette at the side of Asta Nielsen , his discoverer for the silent film, and then shot another six films with her under the direction of Urban Gad . 1915/16 he was seen under Joe May in the title role of his Joe Deebs series , a popular detective series.
Ewald André Dupont shot a Max Landa series in 1918/19 with a total of 12 films. In 1921 Max Landa stood in front of the camera again with Asta Nielsen for Die Geliebte Roswolskys , in 1928 he had his last film appearance.
From 1921 until the end of the silent film era, Landa also worked as a freelance film producer.
Landa fled after the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 from the German Reich. On November 9, 1933, Max Landa, a victim of the changed circumstances , committed suicide.
Max Landa was married to the actress Margot Walter from 1927 to 1929 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1911: The medium
- 1913: The Suffragette
- 1913: Engelein
- 1914: The man in the basement
- 1914: The Eternal Night
- 1914: Engeleins wedding
- 1915: The law of the mine
- 1915: His most difficult case
- 1915: purple roses
- 1915: The secret secretary
- 1915: William Voss
- 1916: The ghost clock
- 1916: fog and sun
- 1916: The dog with the monocle
- 1916: The man without a head
- 1916: Cinderella
- 1917: The climate at Vaucourt
- 1917: The onyx button
- 1917: Crows fly around the tower
- 1917: The Caucasian
- 1918: his best friend
- 1918: Europe poste restante
- 1918: midnight
- 1919: The Apaches
- 1919: The Grand Hotel Babylon
- 1919: The strangler of the world
- 1920: Moriturus
- 1921: Rosvolsky's mistress
- 1925: The flight around the globe
- 1928: The executioner
- 1928: Anastasia, the false daughter of the Tsar
literature
- Lining: Landau (Landa) Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 426 f. (Direct links on p. 426 , p. 427 ).
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 214.
- 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. P. 295 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
Web links
- Max Landa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Images by Max Landa In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b feed: ÖBL , p. 426
- ↑ a b feed: ÖBL , p. 427
- ↑ On the death of Adele Sandrock. In: Badener Zeitung , September 4, 1937, p. 2, bottom center
- ^ Sources: Wedding announcement and editorial text in Mein Film, No. 65, p. 2; Mein Film, No. 164, p. 17, 2nd column
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landa, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landau, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian silent film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1933 |
| Place of death | Bled , Yugoslavia |