A dispatch from Berlin brings word of a new biography of Max Schreck, the German actor who played the vampire in the 1922 film Nosferatu, an outlaw version of Dracula. “Whoever hopes to discover a vampire will be disappointed, but they will find an actor of real skill and versatility,” biographer Stefan Eickhoff tells Reuters. “Yet he himself remains somewhat shrouded in mystery.” Max Schreck—Gespenstertheater (“Ghost Theater”) will be published in Germany later this year. There’s no mention of any American interest yet, but you translate this into English and it seems like it might be of a kind with the early Hollywood biographies the University Press of Kentucky has been doing regularly for the past few years…
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