Maximilian Beck (actor, 1861)
Maximilian Beck , often just Max Beck , ( January 10, 1861 in Munich - January 23, 1933 there ) was a German theater actor .
Life
Beck was the son of the costume designer at the Munich court theater and had repeatedly performed in children's roles on the court stage in his hometown. When he was barely 15 he had his first engagement in Hall near Innsbruck. He later toured Tyrol with his partition society (on the side he painted pictures of Our Lady, which he peddled), then came to the Munich Volkstheater, and from 1881 to 1885 belonged to the ensemble of the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 1886 he came to the Meininger Theater , where he stayed until 1900. During this time he took part in the tour of the Meiniger Theater. In 1894 Beck was director of the spa theater company in Bad Neuenahr . Then he joined the association of the Hofbühne Coburg-Gotha .
He also made a name for himself as a reciter of German dialect poems ( Anzengruber , Ganghofer , Rosegger , Morré, etc.) and was appointed ducal court reciter in view of his services. In later years he hardly seems to have accepted a permanent engagement. Most recently Beck lived again in Munich, where he also died.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 70, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 98 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beck, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |