Max Pategg
Max Pategg , actually Max Grünhut (born June 24, 1855 in Brandeis, Austrian Empire , today: Czech Republic ; † September 19, 1936 in Berlin , German Empire ), was an Austro-German stage actor as well as a director and long-time executive director of the Berliner Schiller Theater.
Live and act
The merchant's son had attended the Technical University in Vienna and during that time, as Studiosus in 1876/77, he sniffed the stage for the first time in several student performances. Even during his military service with the Austro-Hungarian artillery, Pategg appeared on stage boards and played the Stauffacher in a performance of Wilhelm Tell. Ultimately, the Bohemian decided on a professional career and made his debut in 1879 in a performance of Uriel Acosta in Bielitz, then Austria. The following year he went to Olomouc, where he was allowed to play central stage roles for the first time: Pategg was King Lear , Wallenstein and Consul Bernick in Ibsen's pillars of society . In 1881 Max Pategg reached Berlin for the first time, where he found an engagement at the National Theater. In the following year he went to the City Theater of Hamburg for two seasons (until 1884), where he was a. a. than Nathan the Wise could see.
Pategg's other early brilliant roles include Otto Ludwig's Der Erbförster, Der Richter von Zalamea in the Calderón drama of the same name (played as part of a guest performance at the New York Thalia Theater) and The Perjurer based on the folk play of the same name by Ludwig Anzengruber . Another guest performance took him to St. Petersburg , where Max Pategg was the cajetan in The Bride of Messina . In 1885 he became a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin before moving to the capital's Schiller Theater nine years later. Here he stayed for 38 years until the end of his career in the early 1930s and celebrated triumphs with the aforementioned roles, but also worked there as a director and senior director. Pategg “is an excellent speaker, yes, he is one of the best speech artists in Berlin, and he is supported in the most advantageous way by a powerful, sonorous organ”, as Ludwig Eisenberg's Great Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the XIXth century. Century knew how to report. Most recently (until 1932) Pategg was a director on the board of the Schillertheater-AG and remained active there as a director until the late 1920s.
Pategg probably only appeared in one film: In Curt Goetzen's production Friedrich Schiller , he played Johann Kaspar Schiller , the father of the eponymous poet prince.
Filmography
- 1923: Friedrich Schiller
literature
- Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 24.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 751 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Max Pategg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pategg, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grünhut, Max (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandeis, Bohemia , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin , German Empire |