Max Schreck
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Friedrich Georg Maximilian Schreck (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), also known as Max Schreck, was a German actor best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922).
Early life
Max Schreck was born in Berlin-Friedenau on September 6, 1879. His father bought a house in Friedenau, then part of the district of Teltow, six years ago.
Schreck's father was disapproving of his son's ever-increating passion for theater. His mother gave the boy money, which he secretly used for acting lessons, but he did not go to drama school until his father's death. He travelled briefly across the country with poet and dramatist Demetrius Schrutz after graduating.
Schreck performed in Mulhouse, Meseritz, Speyer, Rudolstadt, Erfurt, and Weissenfels, as well as his first extended stay at the Gera Theater. More engagements followed, particularly in Frankfurt am Main. Otto Falckenberg and Max Reinhardt's Munich Kammerspiele took him from there.
Schreck began his studies at the Berliner Staatstheater (State Theatre of Berlin), which concluded in 1902. He appeared in Meseritz and Speyer's first performance and then toured Germany for two years, appearing at theaters in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Lucerne, Gera, and Frankfurt am Main. Schreck later joined Max Reinhardt's Berliner company as a performer. Many members of Reinhardt's troupe went on to make important contributions to the German film industry.
Personal life
Fanny Normann, a character in a few films who was often credited as Fanny Schreck, was married to Schreck.
One of Schreck's contemporaries recalled that he had an odd sense of humor and an ability at portraying grotesque characters. He also said he lived in "a remote and incorporeal world" and that he often spent time wandering through forests.
Schlock did not exist and was not a pseudonym for well-known actor Alfred Abel at the time of Nosferatu and for many years after.
Career
Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele from 1919 to 1922, as the "freakshow landlord" Glubb, who appeared in Bertolt Brecht's debut, Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night). During this period, he appeared on his first film The Mayor of Zalamea, which was based on a six-act play for Decla Bioscop. He was hired by Prana Film in 1921 for its first and only film, Nosferatu (1922), an unlicensed adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. After the film was released to avoid paying copyright infringement fees to the author's widow, Florence Stoker, the firm declared itself bankrupt. Count Orlok, a figure similar to Count Dracula, was depicted by Schreck.
While still in Munich, Schreck appeared in a 16-minute (one-reeler) slapstick comedy written by Bertolt Brecht titled "Mysteries of a Barbershop, 1923), directed by Erich Engel. In the film The Street (also 1923), Schreck appeared as a blind man.
Die Finanzen Des Grossherzogs, Schreck's second collaboration with Nosferatu's W. Murnau was the comedy Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs (The Grand Duke's Finances, 1924). And Murnau did not hesitate to declare his contempt for the photograph. Schreck revived to the Kammerspiele in Munich in 1926 and continued to perform in films, surviving the introduction of sound in 1936 until 1936, when he died from heart failure.