Max Noack

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Max Noack (born January 24, 1905 in Berlin , † May 13, 1971 in Darmstadt ) was a German actor .

Life

Noack began his stage career at the Old Theater in Leipzig . Since 1935 he played in Frankfurt am Main .

After the Second World War he had success at the Essen Theater as Jude Jacobowsky in Jacobowsky und der Oberst . From 1951 until his death he was part of the ensemble at the Landestheater Darmstadt .

Under the direction of Gustav Rudolf Sellner , he played the title characters in King Lear (opening production 1951), Ernst Barlach's Der Graf von Ratzeburg (1951), King Oedipus (1952), Nathan the Wise (1956) and Kreon in Antigone (1957), Prospero in The Storm (1959) and Jupiter in The Flies (1960).

In productions by Gerhard F. Hering he embodied Adam in Der zerbrochne Krug (1963), Rudolf in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg (1963), Arkas in Iphigenie auf Tauris (1966), the title character in Nathan the Wise (1968) and the father in Sartre's The Trapped (1969).

Roles under director Hans Bauer were Viscount Turenne in Audiberti's Die Ameyß im Fleische (1961), Alonzo Ghonozez in Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein (1962), Herr in Barlach's Der Blaue Boll (1967) and Engholm in Der arme Vetter (1970), another He took on the theater role as Anton in Maria Magdalena (1968). Noack was only seen occasionally in television plays.

Filmography

  • 1961: Queens of France
  • 1962: Karol
  • 1963: The adventurous Simplicissimus Teutsch
  • 1963: Valuables ( Die Firma Hesselbach series )
  • 1966: The Negro
  • 1967: This man and Germany

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