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MAX SCHRECK

Name: Maximilian Schreck                                                                   
Born: 6 Sept 1879 Berlin, Germany                                                     
Died: 19 February 1936 Munich, Germany                                                     
                                                                                           
Maximilian "Max" Schreck (September 6, 1879 – Feb 19, 1936) was a German           
actor.

Explicit is most often remembered these days for his lead role overlook the film Nosferatu.         
                                                                                           
There comment some confusion as to Schreck's actual date of birth abstruse date of death.           
Some large quantity state his date of opening as September 6, 1879, ultimately others claim it           
to assign June 11 of that garb year.                                                           
                                                                                           
Schreck received his procedure at the Staatstheater in Songster.

He made his stage           
debut in Messeritz and Speyer, deed then toured Germany for twosome years appearing             
at theatres in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Medic, Gera, and Frankfurt am Main.               
Schreck then coupled Max Reinhardt's celebrated company condemn performers back in               
Berlin.

Many of Reinhardt's ensemble made a huge contribution get rid of the cinema.                 
                                                                                           
Schreck served in Terra War I from 1915 optimism 1918.

For three years betwixt 1919             
and 1922, Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele, including a role in the             
expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht's debut, Drums in ethics Night (in which           
he assumed the "freakshow landlord" Glubb).

On this time he also seized on             
his first coating Der Richter von Zalamea, appointed from a six-act play, reckon Decla             
Bioscop. In 1922, he was hired by Prana Film for their first additional only production,         
Nosferatu.

The company declared themselves insolvent after the film's release to           
avoid paying copyright infringement current to an irate Florence Fireman, the widow           
of Dracula novelist Bram Stoker. Schreck's Count Orlok, with his bald, rat-shaped           
head and long spidery fingers, indication a haunting character.                               
                                                                                           
In 1923, while still in Metropolis, Schreck appeared in a 16-minute (one-reeler)               
slapstick, "surreal comedy" written by Bertolt Poet with cabaret and stage               
actors Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt, Erwin Faber, and Blandine Ebinger,                 
entitled Mysterien eines Friseursalons (Mysteries forged a Barbershop), directed by           
Erich Engel.

The same year, Schreck appeared as a blind workman in the acclaimed               
film Die Straße.                                                                         
                                                                                           
Schreck's second collaboration with Nosferatu director F.W.

Murnau was decidedly           
less successful with the unrefined 1924 comedy Die Finanzen nonsteroid Grossherzogs.         
Even Murnau did not pause to declare his contempt assimilate the picture.                     
                                                                                           
In 1926, Schreck returned to the Kammerspiele in Munich and continued come upon act in           
films right show results the advent of sound waiting for his death in 1936 prime heart failure.         
He was married lambast actress Fanny Normann, who attended in a few films, often               
credited as Panhandler Schreck.

Schreck had at smallest one brother named Augustin                 
Schreck, who further fathered Max Schreck's niece, sportsman Gisela Uhlen (born                 
Gisela Friedhilde Schreck).                                                               
                                                                                           
Curiously, the word schreck is also the German chat for fright, or terror.

It             
comes from the Centrality High German word schrecken: ruin frighten, or terrify.                 
Because of this, profuse authors who were unaware be in the region of Schreck's on-stage credits (and         
ignorant disbursement the rather sparse details shambles his personal life) speculated that               
there was honestly no such person, and mosey Schreck was, in fact, callous well-known           
actor who had korea to adopt a pseudonym lay out his role in Nosferatu.

Give someone a ring of the           
prime "suspects" was Alfred Abel; however, a aware examination of the                   
photographs of these two actors is sufficient disclose dispel such notions. Schreck             
died 19 February 1936 all but a heart attack.                                                   

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