Max Obal

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Max Obal , born in Max David Gotthelf Sroke , (born September 4, 1881 in Brieg , Province of Silesia , Wroclaw District , † May 18, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German actor , film director , screenwriter and film music composer .

Life

Max Sroke was trained in optics and precision mechanics, after which he attended the drama school of the Great Theater in Hamburg. When he made his debut in 1901 as a choir singer at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg , he was already known as "Max Obal".

He then performed in Bremen, Leipzig, Cologne and again in Hamburg. In 1907 he came to Berlin, where he got an engagement at the Theater des Westens . With Fred Carlo and Fritz Wallner in a trio, he sang in December 1907 the homocord record No. 1893 with the women march from Lehár's operetta “ The Merry Widow ”. He also sang in the complete recording of this operetta, which the Gramophone Company undertook in the same year.

He received his first film role in 1905; between 1911 and 1912 he worked as an actor in several Urban Gad films ; In 1911, Obal was Asta Nielsen's partner as variety comedian Goldmann in Nachtfalter . In 1913 he played the title role in Alfred Lind's adventure film Turi, the Wanderlappe .

From then on, Max Obal devoted himself entirely to film directing and directed crime and adventure films, film dramas and melodramas, and less often comedies. Several times he was also a co-screenwriter. With the dawn of the sound film age, Obal received fewer and fewer directorships and ended his work on the film in 1937/38 with two short films.

Filmography (as a director)

  • 1927: The greatest crook of the century (also screenplay)
  • 1927: The women of Folies Bergères (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Rinaldo Rinaldini
  • 1927: The Insurmountable (also screenplay)
  • 1927: My friend Harry
  • 1927: The modern Casanova
  • 1927: The competition bursts / Queen of fashion
  • 1927: speed! Tempo! (also script)
  • 1927: love in the snow

Sound films

  • 1930: The Funny Musicians (also screenplay)
  • 1930: The hunt for the million
  • 1931: Reserve has peace
  • 1932: Adventure in the Engadine
  • 1933: The trip into the countryside
  • 1933: Two good comrades
  • 1933: The one from the Lower Rhine / A golden girl
  • 1934: Annette in Paradise / A kiss after the shop closes
  • 1934: Every woman has a secret
  • 1935: The monastery hunter
  • 1936: Vogelöd Castle
  • 1938: Erich Lemke criminal case (short film)
  • 1938: I see light, I see dark (short film)

Audio documents

Gramophone Concert Record. 1907:

with Louise Obermaier , Marie Ottmann , Max Kuttner (as “Fred Carlo”) and Gustav Matzner and orchestra, conductor Bruno Seidler-Winkler :

2-44 243 (mx. 3087 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Finale 1st act, 1st part

2-44 244 (mx. 3088 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Finale 1st act, 2nd part

2-44 246 (mx. 3090 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Women's March 2nd act

2-44 263 (mx. 3246 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Introduction

41 983 (mx. 3075 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Ensemble dialogue 1st act

41 987 (mx. 3089 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Ensemble dialogue 2nd act

41 998 (mx. 3247 r) “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) Dialogue 1st act

Homocord No. 1893 [17 12 7 A] Women's March from “The Merry Widow” (Lehár) with Max Kuttner (as Fred Carlo) and Fritz Wallner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.territorial.de/ndschles/brieg/landkrs.htm
  2. ^ One of the pseudonyms under which the ubiquitous tenor Max Kuttner worked.
  3. ↑ cf. operadis org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Obal, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Max David Gotthelf Sroke; Max Sroke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Brzeg , Province of Silesia , District of Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1949
Place of death Berlin