Max Pallenberg

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Max Pallenberg (1909)
Zygmunt Skwirczyński : Max Pallenberg (right, 1911)

Max Pallenberg (born December 18, 1877 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † June 26, 1934 near Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian singer (baritone), actor and comedian . He was "one of the most important character comedians of his time" and often played under the direction of Max Reinhardt .

Life

Max Pallenberg was born on December 18, 1877 in Vienna II. Leopoldstadt , Wintergasse (since 1956 Hartlgasse) 7 as the son of brand wine maker Markus Pallenberg, who immigrated to Vienna from Galicia, and his wife Kressel (also Therese). Korsower was born. After training as an actor, Pallenberg appeared at a traveling theater and provincial theaters before Josef Jarno engaged him in 1904 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. In 1908 he went to the Theater an der Wien as an operetta comedian , sang in the world premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg and played at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna in 1910/11. Pallenberg has played in Munich since 1911, and in 1914 Max Reinhardt signed him to the German Theater in Berlin , where he achieved his artistic breakthrough and soon became one of the most famous character comedians with brilliant roles such as the Schluck in Gerhart Hauptmann's Schluck und Jau and the Peachum in the Threepenny Opera its time was.

Since the 1920s he went on international guest tours, appeared repeatedly in Vienna and had a particular success in the title role of the 1923 comedy Der Unbrechliche, written for him by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Other major roles were the title role in Liliom (1922), the theater director in Six People Looking for an Author (1924), as well as the title role in Max Brod and Hans Reimann's stage adaptation of The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk (1928) directed by Erwin Piscator . Pallenberg's most important roles at the Salzburg Festival include Mephisto in Faust , Argan in The Imagined Sick (1923), the Devil in Jedermann (1926) and Truffaldino in Turandot , all directed by Max Reinhardt.

Pallenberg starred in several silent and sound films , for example in 1915 in Max and his two women and in Fritz Kortner's Der brave Sünder (1931). On February 20, 1917, Pallenberg married Fritzi Massary , one of the greatest divas of the 1920s, in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1933 he went into exile with his wife in Austria. In 1934 he died in a plane crash near Karlsbad in Czechoslovakia. His grave is in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department ML, Group 16, Number 1G). In 1955 Pallenbergstrasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Grave of Max Pallenberg

characterization

When describing the character comedian Pallenberg, his great creative power, his improvisational art and his linguistic variety are mentioned. He is considered to be a representative of critical popular theater. In his play, he included aggressiveness and the grotesque, as well as the criticism of the roles. Herbert Ihering wrote: "Actually, Pallenberg is the most daring consequence of the improvisational comedian of the commedia dell'arte." Kurt Tucholsky once described Max Pallenberg as "a devil, a derailed god, a great artist".

Filmography

  • 1912: Pampulik as a monkey
  • 1912: Pampulik has a child
  • 1915: Max and his two wives
  • 1915: Pampulik is hungry
  • 1915: The mad Roland
  • 1915: Kapellmeister foster child
  • 1921: The night and the corpse
  • 1931: The good sinner

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Pallenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Beck: Pallenberg, Max. In: Brauneck, Beck: Theaterlexikon 2 . 2007, p. 545. ISBN 3-499-55650-2
  2. ^ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, birth book F part 2, number of rows 6811, online resource: birth book IKG Vienna (online version) . On the fictitious story that his original name was Max Pollack and when one day he saw the name Pallenberg on a billboard at Cologne Central Station, he made this name his artist name, cf. H. Rudolf Mückler: Josef Pallenberg 1882-1946. His life, his art, his animals . Bongers, Recklinghausen 1992, ISBN 3764704330 .
  3. ^ Georg Markus: The last guest performance. Max Pallenberg's fatal plane crash, June 26, 1934. In: Everything just coincidence ?: Fateful hours of great Austrians . Amalthea Signum, 2014, ISBN 978-3850028783 . ( online )
  4. ↑ quoted from: Wolfgang Beck: Pallenberg, Max , 2007
personal data
SURNAME Pallenberg, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer (baritone), actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1934
Place of death near Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia