Maxim Galitzenstein

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Maxim "Max" Galitzenstein (born July 14, 1886 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died after March 1931) was an Austrian film manager and producer for German silent films in the 1920s.

Live and act

Galitzenstein is one of the great unknowns among film producers before 1933. Little is known about his vita and origins. Born in Vienna, he came to German film before the First World War and worked his way up to head of sales and managing director at the production company Oskar Messters .

In 1919 Maxim Galitzenstein and his stepbrother Paul Ebner founded their own production company, Maxim-Film GmbH Ebner & Co. (Berlin). The workshop of the former Galitzenstein boss Messter in Berlin's Blücherstr. 31/32, which the new producer from Messter rented on March 30, 1919. In just ten years, Galitzenstein and Ebner produced a wealth of silent films, some of which were considerable successes and with famous names such as Ernst Lubitsch (director of Romeo and Juliet in the snow ), Paul Wegener and Asta Nielsen (leading actor in Steuermann Holk ), Emil Jannings and Fritz Kortner (leading actor in The Brothers Karamasoff ), as well as Henny Porten and GW Pabst (leading actress and director of Countess Donelli ).

At the end of the silent film era, Galitzenstein ceased its production activities at the end of 1929, as his small company could no longer compete with the large studios, which had largely had the say since the switch from silent to sound films. His last sign of life comes from a boat trip to the USA in March 1931. After that, Maxim Galitzenstein's trail is lost.

Trivia and family matters

The producer had been with Karla Galitzenstein, born on November 23, 1918. Mandowsky (born May 14, 1895), married.

In a sense, Galitzenstein is said to have launched Billy Wilder's career . Wilder lived in Berlin-Schöneberg ( Viktoria-Luise-Platz 11) in 1927 as a sublet. Galitzenstein is said to have fled a neighbor's bedroom in Wilder's room in underwear one night. Wilder recognized the company boss and helped him out of this delicate situation, whereupon the producer bought his first script out of gratitude.

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marriage certificate with proof of birth (1918) and Galitzenstein's travel activities in 1924 and 1931 on ancestry.com
  2. ↑ Maxim Galitzenstein on books.google.de
  3. ↑ Maxim Galitzenstein on cinegraph.de
  4. ↑ Maxim Galitzenstein on cinegraph.de
  5. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek: Billy Wilder. A close up. Updated and expanded new edition. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-09553-4 , p. 68.

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personal data
SURNAME Galitzenstein, Maxim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galitzenstein, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after March 1931