Max Wogritsch

from Dresden, Germany

Biography

Wogritsch had received musical training and played as a cellist before he began his first acting engagement at the Zurich City Theater in 1906 . He stayed there for the next five years and in 1911 moved to the Stadttheater Düsseldorf . Max Wogritsch appeared there until the end of the First World War and, since August 11, 1911, also appeared in films of Düsseldorf and Berlin provenance, including two early Asta Nielsen successes.

Based in Berlin since 1919, Wogritsch concentrated on his work for the cinema. From the early 1920s he worked primarily as a unit manager, occasionally also as a production manager. In the 1930s, Wogritsch earned his living as a scheduler and manager in the audio engineering department at Tobis .

Timeline

1930Aged 50

  • Poster for The Immortal Vagabond

    Priest

1929Aged 49

  • Poster for Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers

    (Unknown)

1928Aged 48

  • Poster for Hungarian Rhapsody

    Bischof

  • Poster for Lady Juan

    Don Felipe de Mendoza

1925Aged 45

  • Poster for The Chronicles of the Gray House

    Unit Manager

1923Aged 43

  • Poster for The Lost Shoe

    Production Manager

1920Aged 40

1919Aged 39

1917Aged 37

  • Poster for Countess Maruschka

    (Unknown)

1913Aged 33

1912Aged 32

  • Poster for A Romany Spy

    Leutnant Sergej Ipanoff