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Max Devrient

German actor
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Born:
Dec. 12, 1857, Hanover, Hannover [Germany]
Died:
June 13, 1929, Chur, Switz. (aged 71)
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Devrient family
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Max Devrient (born Dec. 12, 1857, Hanover, Hannover [Germany]—died June 13, 1929, Chur, Switz.) was a German actor who excelled in tragic roles, particularly in the plays of Goethe, Schiller, and Shakespeare, but who was also much admired in comedy, especially as Petruchio in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Grandnephew of the great Romantic actor Ludwig Devrient and son of the noted character actor Karl August Devrient, Max made his debut in 1878 in Dresden as Bertrand in Friedrich von Schiller’s play Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). Subsequently he toured extensively throughout Germany. In 1882 he ...(100 of 116 words)

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