Max Bing

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Max Bing (15 March 1885 – 7 February 1945) was a German actor and director of radio plays.

Biography

Bing was born in Dresden. He received his first theatrical engagement in 1903 at the Ducal Court Theatre, Meiningen (Herzogliches Hoftheater Meiningen or Meininger Theater). After that he performed in, among other places, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Brno, Stuttgart and Berlin. During his time in Vienna he appeared in the two early Austrian silent films Die Glückspuppe and Der Müller und sein Kind. but afterwards appeared only occasionally in front of the camera in Germany. On 10 October 1917 he was awarded the Charlottenkreuz.^[1]

From 1927 he concentrated on his work as a director and narrator in the Funk-Stunde Berlin (Berlin Radio), where among other things he produced in 1930 Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf with Heinrich George in the leading role.

On 1 October 1942 Bing took on a new position as artistic director of the Tobis Film Company. He died on 7 February 1945 in Jauernig in the Sudetenland (now Javorník in the Czech Republic).

Filmography

1911: Die Glückspuppe
1911: Der Müller und sein Kind
1916: Der rote Streifen
1916: Das unheimliche Haus
1924: Dreiklang der Nacht

1939: Die Stimme aus dem Äther
1940: Die letzte Runde
1941: Immer nur Du
1941: Walzer ihres Lebens

Sources and external links

Max Bing at the Internet Movie Database

Notes

↑ Baden-Württemberg Landesarchiv: WW2

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Persondata
Name	Bing, Max
Alternative names
Short description	German actor and radio director
Date of birth	15 March 1885
Place of birth	Dresden, Germany
Date of death	7 February 1945
Place of death	Jauernig

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