Max Zilzer
Max Zilzer (born November 23, 1868 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † 1943 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a German actor .
Life
Zilzer made his debut in Budapest in 1887 and came to Germany two years later. He played in Halle (Saale) , Marburg and Heilbronn . In 1892 he went to Esseg , in 1894 to Maribor . In 1895 he came to a small stage in Vienna .
His next stage was the Sibiu City Theater . Shortly before the turn of the century, Zilzer performed for four years at the Grand Opera House in Cincinnati, America , where his son was born. From 1904 he worked almost continuously on the Berlin theaters. He got his first film role before the beginning of the First World War . As in the theater, Zilzer limited himself to small character roles in the cinema.
His son was the actor Wolfgang Zilzer , who emigrated when the National Socialists came to power and then finally in 1937. Max Zilzer stayed in Berlin and at the beginning of World War II was confronted by the Gestapo with the photo of his son, who had worked under a pseudonym in Anatole Litvak's anti-Nazi film Confessions of a Nazi Spy . He probably died under unexplained circumstances as a result of the brutal interrogation methods.
Filmography
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literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 377.
Web links
- Max Zilzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Max Zilzer at filmportal.de
- Max Zilzer at The German Early Cinema Database # 4247
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| SURNAME | Zilzer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin , German Empire |