Max Pallenberg (born 18 December 1877 in

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as ''Max Pollack'' – 26 June 1934 in

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) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined

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and (as of 1911)

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's Deutsches Volkstheater. However, it was at

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's Deutsches Theater where he left a lasting mark on German theatrical practice. He worked there with

Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born Theatre director, theatre and film director, theater manager, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he i ...

. Pallenberg's stellar role was in the

Erwin Piscator Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of ...

's dramatic adaptation of

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inc ...

's novel

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. In 1917 he married

Fritzi Massary Fritzi Massary (31 March 1882 – 30 January 1969) was an Austrian-American soprano singer and actress. Early life and career Fritzi Massary was born Friederike Massaryk in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 31 March 1882. She was one o ...

who was one of the divas of the 1920s. In 1933 they left Germany for

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. A year later he died in an airplane crash near

in today's

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. He was cremated at

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, where his ashes are also buried. Pallenberg also starred in several films: * "Pampulik als Affe" (1912) * "Pampulik kriegt ein Kind" (1912) * "Pampulik hat Hunger" (1913) * "Max und seine zwei Frauen" (1915) * "Der rasende Roland" (1915) * "Kapellmeister Pflegekind" (1915) * "Die Nacht und der Leichnam" (1921) * ''

The Virtuous Sinner ''The Virtuous Sinner'' (German: ''Der brave Sünder'') is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kortner and starring Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann and Dolly Haas. Production The film was made at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin, although ...

'' (1931) with

Heinz Rühmann Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a Ge ...

External links

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Photographs and literature
* Contemporary Portrait of Max Pallenberg by Malva Schalek - http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~catherine.stodolsky/malva/vienna/maxp1.jpg] *Kurt Tutcholsky's portrait of Max Pallenberg – https://www.textlog.de/tucholsky-max-ulysses.html
''Max Pallenberg : Lithographien''
a set of illustrations by

Charlotte Berend-Corinth Charlotte Berend-Corinth (25 May 1880 – 10 January 1967) was a female Germany, German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession. She was married to German painter Lovis Corinth. Life Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Royal School of ...

at the

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