Max Neal
Maximilian Dalhoff Neal (26 March 1865 – 1 January 1941)[1] was a German playwright, born to the artist David Dalhoff Neal and wife Marie Ainmiller, and later brother to composer Heinrich Neal. His maternal grandfather was the great glass painter Max Emanuel Ainmiller.
Biography
Max Neal's first trip to the U.S. was in 1904, to have his play "The Collie and the Cat", performed at the famous German Theatre,
Neal teamed up with friend
Neal's first silver screen movie was a silent, black & white film called Das Geheimnis der grünen Villa that debuted in 1922, of which he was the sole writer, and was directed by Philipp Lother Mayring.[3]
According to a 24 June 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers
Just as his father had died at the onset of World War I, Max Neal died, also in Munich, Germany, and also at the age of 76 in the onset of World War II on 1 January 1941, less than two months after his friend Max Ferner (59) had died.[5]
Plays
- Der müde Theodor (1913, co-author Max Ferner)
- Der heilige Florian (1913, co-author Philipp Weichand)
- Fürst Casimir, operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer (1913, co-author Max Ferner)
- Im siebenten Himmel, operetta by Karl Michael Ziehrer (1916, co-author Max Ferner)
- Die drei Dorfheiligen (1920, co-author Max Ferner)
- Das sündige Dorf (a.k.a. Der Mann im Fegfeuer, 1925)
- Der Hochtourist (1927, co-author Curt Kraatz)
- Der Hunderter im Westentaschl (1935, co-author Max Ferner)
Filmography
- Der müde Theodor (1918, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Trötte Teodor (Sweden, 1931, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Der Hochtourist (1931, based on the play Der Hochtourist)
- Service de nuit (France, 1932, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Der müde Theodor (1936, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine (1936, based on the play Der Hunderter im Westentaschl)
- The Sinful Village (1940, based on the play Das sündige Dorf)
- Der scheinheilige Florian (1941, based on the play Der heilige Florian)
- Der Hochtourist (1942, based on the play Der Hochtourist)
- Trötte Teodor (Sweden, 1945, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Die drei Dorfheiligen (1949, based on the play Die drei Dorfheiligen)
- The Sinful Village (1954, based on the play Das sündige Dorf)
- Tired Theodore (1957, based on the play Der müde Theodor)
- Der Hochtourist (1961, based on the play Der Hochtourist)
- The Sinful Village (1966, based on the play Das sündige Dorf)
Screenwriter
- Das Geheimnis der grünen Villa (1922)
- A halott szerelme (1922)