Maximilian Sladek

Maximilian Viktor Sladek (born May 30, 1875 in Malapane , Silesia , German Empire , † November 9, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor , theater director and theater manager .

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Sladek received his artistic training from Paul Pauli in Berlin. His first engagement took him to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899 . This was followed by German engagements at stages in Flensburg, Kiel, Posen and Stettin before he arrived in Berlin in 1907 to appear there under Victor Barnowsky's direction at the Small Theater. Another commitment in Berlin led him to the Neue Volkstheater shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. In 1915/16 he was Max Reinhardt's deputy . In 1920 he built the small theater at the Hochschule für Musik and ran it with colleague Gertrud Eysoldt . In the same year Maximilian Sladek also became director of the Wallner Theater. From 1922 to 1925 he was director of the Berliner Schauspielhaus.

Regarding his roles on stage: Maximilian Sladek was seen at a young age in the field of the youthful character actor in a plethora of theater classics, including Goethe's Torquato Tasso , Schiller's Don Karlos , as Mortimer in Schiller's Maria Stuart , in Sudermann 's Sodom's End , Grillparzer's Die Jüdin of Toledo and as Nikita in Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness .

Maximilian Sladek died in Berlin in 1925 at the age of 50 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has been preserved.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 45.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hagemann mentions the year 1877
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 309. Grave "Sladek, Maximilian Viktor" . On: http://www.grabpatenschaften-berlin.de/ (accessed on February 23, 2019).

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