Meinhart Maur

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Meinhart Maur , also Meinhardt Maur , born in Menyhert Grünbaum (born August 18, 1884 in Hajdúnánás , Hungary , † 1964 in London ) was an actor .

Life

Menyhert Grünbaum called himself Meinhart Maur since 1903 when he decided to go to Germany. In Dusseldorf he received his artistic training at the drama school and is there for the first time in 1905 with a theater role in the play The Count of Charolais . The following year Maur got a permanent job as an acting trainee at Louise Dumont's playhouse , to which he was to belong until 1909. Paul Henckels , Hermine Körner , Bernhard Goetzke and Eva Speyer were among his stage colleagues in those years . In 1909 he moved to Hildesheim, 1910 to Koblenz and 1912 to Mannheim for six years. In autumn 1918 Maur played roles for the first time at Max Reinhardt stages (Kammerspiele, Deutsches Theater, Kleines Schauspielhaus). He took on the leading role in Reinhardt's production of Der Weibsteufel , played the Varennes in Danton's Death , the Johannssen in Ghost Sonata , the Patriarch of Jerusalem in Nathan the Wise , the Friedepohl in Spring Awakening , the Kung Poti in Pandora's Box and the Pfefferkorn in The show Semaels . Most of these were productions by Max Reinhardt from 1918 to 1920.

Almost at the same time (1919) Meinhart Maur started a short but intensive film activity. His portrayal of Hajji Halef Omar was best known in three early Karl May films (" The Devil Worshipers ", " On the Ruins of Paradise ", " The Caravan of Death ") in 1920. Already two years later, after an adaptation of ETA Hoffmann's " The Elixirs of the Devil " , Maur temporarily ended his cinematic activity in favor of his theater career and radio play. When entertainment broadcasting was introduced in Germany in 1923, Maur could also be heard here both as a speaker in broadcast games and as a lecturer with his own programs. So he worked z. B. in 1925 in a radio performance of Hans Rosenplüt's carnival games directed by Alfred Braun and spoke in 1929 in Friedrich Wolf's famous radio play " SOS ... rao rao ... Foyn " the "radio operator in Leningrad".

During those years, Maur only stood in front of film cameras occasionally. The Jewish artist, who in the early days of the Third Reich only appeared in Jewish events and held readings there or reenacted individual scenes from literature, fled from the National Socialists in 1936 and emigrated to England. In the same year Maur was seen there in Alexander Korda's artist biography Rembrandt . Otherwise Meinhart Maur initially played mainly theater (e.g. 1940 in the play Address Unknown , 1944/45 in the black comedy Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen and 1946 in Summer at Nohant ), worked on the radio and most recently received small but concise supporting roles in Cheap films as well as in pretentious, well-designed productions such as " Hoffmanns Erzählungen " and " Boccaccio's great love ". At the age of 70, Maur largely withdrew into private life after he played General Achmed Huda in 1954 in The King's Four Wives of the television series Sailor of Fortune .

Maur was married to the Prague theater actress Annie Arden, who was in front of the camera with him in The Elixirs of the Devil .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

  • "Artists on the radio": A pocket album from the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk". Dedicated to our readers. Berlin, Rothgiesser & Diesing publishing house, 1932
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 334 f. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. the pocket album "Künstler am Rundfunk" dedicated a page with a photo to him in 1932, cf. radiomusaeum.org . There it says of him on p. 59: "Meinhart Maur has repeatedly performed successfully on the microphone of the Berliner Funk-Hour in broadcast games and with his own recitation programs. He is married to the actress Annie Arden, with whom he is passionate about going on long walks rides and swims. "
  2. cf. ARD radio play database on “The Fastnacht and the fast litigation”, two carnival games from the 15th century
  3. Arden-Maur, Annie . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 9.
  4. cf. Fig. Of the title page