Max Weydner

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Max Weydner (born October 3, 1882 , † in February or September 1937 , probably in Bavaria ) was a German stage actor and film actor .

Live and act

Weydner came to the theater shortly after the turn of the century and played on stages in the German-speaking province (such as Meran) towards the end of the imperial era before he found himself in Munich and became a member of the ensemble at the theater there. Towards the end of his career (1933) Weydner also received his last permanent engagement from the Münchner Kammerspiele in the Schauspielhaus. In the meantime he worked again at one or the other (Bavarian) provincial theater such as in Landshut (season 1930/31).

At the beginning of the post-war period, Weydner created a second important mainstay with film. In the Weimar Republic he took part in more or less major supporting roles in an abundance of entertainment productions, mostly made in Munich. He played priests and exotics, fathers and waiters, policemen and a usurer. As a result of the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Weydner immediately served himself to the new masters and in 1933 played a heavily recorded caricature of a Soviet agent in the propaganda film SA Mann Brand with Turow . A few weeks later, however, he also took part in the role of banker Lloyd in the science fiction classic Der Tunnel by German-Jewish director Kurt Bernhardt .

Weydner had long since said goodbye to stage acting, which tied him firmly to a theater, when he appeared in a film for the last time at the end of 1936 with his hotel receptionist in " The Voice of the Heart ". When exactly Max Weydner died in 1937 is currently unknown, the available sources indicate different months.

Filmography

  • 1914: The hero girl from the Vosges
  • 1917: The One-Eyed Club
  • 1919: The possessed
  • 1919: The Miss von Scuderi
  • 1920: Demon woman
  • 1920: The cut out face
  • 1920: The Hanswurst of Riga
  • 1921: Jolly, the devil
  • 1921: Villa Mephisto
  • 1921: The rat mill
  • 1921: The red bat
  • 1922: The sister's blood
  • 1922: The man from cell 19
  • 1922: The black harlequin
  • 1923: The emperor's old clothes
  • 1924: Dark shadows, radiant happiness
  • 1925: The love of the Bajadere
  • 1926: The German mother's heart
  • 1927: The Secret of Geneva
  • 1928: The hell of Montmartre
  • 1932: The Feldherrnhügel
  • 1932: A man with a heart
  • 1932: a woman like you
  • 1933: SA man fire
  • 1933: The tunnel
  • 1933: The White Majesty
  • 1934: The mill in the Black Forest
  • 1934: Little Dorrit
  • 1934: The immortal song
  • 1934: The legacy in Pretoria
  • 1935: The King's Prisoner
  • 1935: executioners, women and soldiers
  • 1936: Servants ask
  • 1937: The voice of the heart

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Honig / Rodek: "100.001"
  2. ↑ according to filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Weydner, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1882
DATE OF DEATH February 1937 or September 1937
Place of death uncertain: Bavaria