Max Pallenberg was an Austrian singer, actor

Actor

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 and comedian

Comedian

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Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien

Theater an der Wien

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 and (as of 1911) Vienna's

Vienna

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 Deutsches Volkstheater. However, it was at Berlin's

Berlin

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

Max Reinhardt

----Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theater and film director and actor.-Biography:...

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Pallenberg's stellar role was in the Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

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's dramatic adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek

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's novel The Good Soldier Schweik.

In 1917 he married Fritzi Massary

Fritzi Massary

Fritzi Massary was an Austrian-American actress and soprano singer....

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

Germany

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 for Austria

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. A year later he died in an airplane crash near Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary

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 in today's Czech Republic

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Pallenberg also starred in several films:

• "Pampulik als Affe" (1912)
• "Pampulik kriegt ein Kind" (1912)
• "Max und seine zwei Frauen" (1915)
• "Der brave Sünder" (1931) with Heinz Rühmann
  Heinz Rühmann
  Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
  
  
• "Pampulik hat Hunger" (1913)
• "Der rasende Roland" (1915)
• "Kapellmeister Pflegekind" (1915)
• "Die Nacht und der Leichnam" (1921)
• "Der brave Sünder" (1931) with Heinz Rühmann

External links

• Photographs and literature
• Contemporary Portrait of Max Pallenberg by Malva Schalek
  Malva Schalek
  Malva Schalek, aka Malvina Schalková , was an Czech-Jewish painter.-Life:Malva Schalek was born in Prague, to a German-speaking Jewish intellectual family active in the Czech national movement. She went to school in Prague, Vrchlabi , and began to study art, first at the Frauenakademie in Munich ...
  
  - http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~catherine.stodolsky/malva/vienna/maxp1.jpg]