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Max Walter Sieg (born May 7, 1904 in Halle (Saale) , † June 7, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Max Walter Sieg attended grammar school and began to play theater in the 1920s. At first he worked at such obscure small venues as the social hygiene stage in Berlin. In the 30s he was mainly active in Hanover (Deutsches Theater, Schauspielhaus). During the Second World War, Sieg found employment primarily at the Komödienhaus Berlin; in the last season of the war (1943/44) he was a member of a small guest theater (touring theater).

After the Second World War, Sieg played at the Theater am Besenbinderhof Hamburg and until 1953 at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . He then went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg for two years , where he worked as “Willie” in Ulrich Becher's Feuerwasser , as “Szulski” in Franz Pühringer's Abel Hradscheck and his wife , as the shepherd “Kuoni” in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell , as “ Just ”in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm , as“ Ratt ”in Tennessee Williams ' Camino Real and as“ Baron von Gondremark ”in Jacques Offenbach's Parisian life . In 1955 he switched to the Junge Theater in Hamburg, later the Ernst Deutsch Theater , as an actor and stage director .

Since the early 1950s, Sieg was often seen in film and television productions. His first film appearance took place in 1951 in the Austrian drama The Stolen Year with Oskar Werner and Ewald Balser . In the following years he played in various films such as the Heinz Rühmann comedy No fear of large animals , in the crime film Confession in private with Hildegard Knef , in Wolfgang Schleif's Abbe biography Made in Germany - A life for Zeiss with Carl Raddatz in the Leading role as well as in the Edgar Wallace crime thriller Die toten Augen von London , in television productions of plays such as Vern Sneider's Die Geisha des Captain Fisby and in adaptations of literary sources such as Émile Zolas Thérèse Raquin and Franz Kafka's Das Schloß . In the television series Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox , Sieg played a recurring role alongside Günter Pfitzmann . He also worked extensively as a speaker for radio plays and film dubbing .

Sieg was married to the opera singer and singing teacher Else Schürhoff (1898–1960). The daughter Ursula also works as an actress. Siegs great niece is the American mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel .

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1951: The seventeen camels; NWDR; Director: Hans Gertberg
  • 1951: Geronimo and the robbers; NWDR; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: "Utropic" legend; NWDR Hamburg 1951; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Strange interrogation; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: The lady with the tartan hat; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: The Buttercup; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1952: The King of Albania; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: The Tiger Yusuf ; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1953: Dat Motiv; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: Maaruf; RB; REgie: Arma's feeler
  • 1954: The gigantic machine - operated by dwarfs; NWDR; Director: Wolfgang Schwade
  • 1954: marriage crisis; SWF; Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1954: Hercules and the Augean stable; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1954: Do not go to El Kuwehd ; SWF; Director: Karl Peter Biltz
  • 1954: Machine "F" for freedom; NWDR Hanover; Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1955: Anita and the subsistence level; NWDR Hamburg; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1955: The blue straw hat; SWF; Director: Gerd Beermann
  • 1955: Scrabs aren't home; NWDR Hamburg; Director: SO Wagner
  • 1955: Vampire trial file (5 parts); NWDR Hamburg; Director: Hans Gertberg
  • 1956: The glowing Robert; RB; Director: Günter Siebert
  • 1957: Land a long way off; RB; Director: Carl Nagel
  • 1957: The patent pot; NDR; Director: Hanns Farenburg
  • 1958: Should Persepolis be destroyed ?; RB; Director: Günter Siebert
  • 1959: The cat sitting on the pole tells about the dog; RB; Director: Charlotte Niemann
  • 1959: Ricardo's soft dreams; RB; Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1960: state of emergency; NDR; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1961: Salto mortale; NDR; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1964: Poor Jennifer; SDR; Director: Gerd Beermann
  • 1964: The destruction of Rome; SDR; Director: Gerd Beermann
  • 1965: A man to act against; NDR; Director: Jiri Horcicka

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's biographical theater manual , p. 695.
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isoldes-liebestod.info
  3. ↑ http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/archiv/mod,interview/action,detail/id_interview,154/id_menuitem,13/print,1
personal data
SURNAME Victory, Max Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 7th June 1968
Place of death Berlin