Max Paulsen

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Max Johann Heinrich Paulsen , pseudonym Peter Petersen (born November 18, 1876 in Hamburg , † March 11, 1956 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , director and theater director .

Life

After attending secondary school in his home town of Hamburg, Paulsen received acting lessons from Paul Schumann. 18 years old, he gave his debut in 1894 in Rastatt (in a performance of Don Carlos ). After stops in Constance , Bern and Weimar , he came to Berlin for two seasons in 1896 (at the court theater), and in 1898 he moved to Vienna - the city to which he was to remain loyal.

Paulsen was a member of the Burgtheater ensemble for the next 25 years and also directed it in the 1922/23 season. Appointed Hofrat by the Austrian state in 1923 , Paulsen said goodbye to stage acting for almost a quarter of a century and did not return to the theater until 1945, as The Liberated Don Quixote by Anatoli Lunatscharski at the Vienna Volkstheater (director: Günther Haenel , 1945) and in 1947 to the Burg , as an actor and as a director.

In the meantime he taught as a professor at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts and since his debut at Paula Wessely's side in the film Masquerade has also taken on a number of roles in front of the camera. In this context, his stage name Peter Petersen was born , under which he appeared in both film and theater.

Paulsen played in several Nazi propaganda films : In 1941, when he returned home, the father of a 'Volksdeutsche' teacher ( Paula Wessely ) who was “suppressed” by the Poles and a German researcher and fighter against sleeping sickness in Germanin - the story of a colonial act , whose meaningful work was a supposedly destructive British colonial administration is being sabotaged. In 1935 Paulsen starred in Werner Hochbaum's doctor film The Eternal Mask , in Manja Valewska (1936), Die Kreutzersonata (1936/1937) and Maja between two marriages (1938). He usually embodied powerful dignitaries and formidable decision-makers or patriarchs.

After the Second World War, he withdrew from film and concentrated on appearances at the Vienna Burgtheater. After living alongside Hedwig Bleibtreu , Peter Petersen died on March 11, 1956 in Vienna and was buried in the Pötzleinsdorf cemetery (group F, number 88/89).

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SURNAME Paulsen, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paulsen, Max Johann Heinrich (full name); Petersen, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1956
Place of death Vienna