Maximilian
Peter Nikolaus Brückner saw the light of this world in Munich, Bavaria on
Wednesday, January 10, 1979 under the sign of Capricorn and as it later turned out, was to be the
first of
eight children of Ralf Brückner, a lawyer, and his wife
Angela.
He was followed by his brother, Dominikus, a trained carpenter and now an engineer of wood building and construction and as a member of the brass band “Junge Riederinger Musikanten”, playing the baritone and appearing on stage at the Munich Volkstheater with Maxi.
In 1984 Florian was born. He is a paramedic with the Bavarian Red Cross, and part-time actor and plays one of the trumpets with the “Junge Riederinger Musikanten”, and was also on stage with them at the Munich Volkstheater till summer 2010.
It was probably after his birth when the family moved to Riedering in the vicinity of the Lake Chiemsee.
Then followed another brother, who is the only one of the siblings not appearing on stage; and sister Angelina, who works as a legal secretary in her father’s law office and plays one of the clarinets of the “Junge Riederinger Musikanten”.
In 1987 Franz-Xaver was born and works now as an electrician, but also as an actor and he is a dancer in the “Trachtenverein Almengrün”. As one of the “Riederinger Children”, he was part of the latest production of “Everyman” of the Salzburg Festival.
Performing also with this same group were the youngest sisters Susanne (born 1991) and Isabella (born 1997); the later opened the opening ceremony of the 2006 Football World Cup in Munich on a bicycle.
In 1992 Sepp Staber Sr. founded the “Weisenbläser” wind section as part of the Trachtenverein [a club for the preservation of traditional mountain costumes and customs], with the group consisting of his own five children and some of the Brückners. Maxi was selected to play the bass tuba, as he was the tallest of the children at that time. This later grew into the brass band “Die Jungen Riederinger Musikanten”. The “Shepherds Play” was also revived, and with it the children travelled through Bavaria.
Maxi
had to
repeat the 7th grade, because he wasn't in school very often and his
English wasn’t as good as it
should be.
He wanted to become a
doctor, and he was already accepted at the university. However, while
working as a driver in the Civilian Service prior to the begin of his
study, his parents read an advertisement for the renowned
Otto-Falkenberg Acting School in Munich stating that they would accept
new students. Maxi was acting in a play at the time, and according to
himself, not because he liked it so much or was so good in it, but
because his friends were there and he wanted to impress a certain girl.
But his mother liked what she saw. So his parents gave him 50 Marks for
the admission fee, and he auditioned in his finest Bavarian with the
prologue of the “Shepherds Play” along with scenes
from “Much Ado about
Nothing” and “Woyzeck”. The elderly
ladies he drove at the time
practiced the lines with him. And much to his
surprise he was accepted even though any knowledge of the German
language was missing. To learn it he had to move to Munich and limit
his visits to Riedering. It was a tough time, but he managed it - now
he is perfect in both languages (German and Bavarian - but he is still
working on his English).
He studied there from 2000 until 2003. He didn't had much time to attend his last study year, due to work, but still graduated. In 2001 he was invited by Michael Lerchenberg into his newly founded ‘Summer Academy for Acting in Bavarian Language’. Since 2002 he has been a regular guest at the Munich Volkstheater, and in the summers of 2004 to 2006 he as Mammon seduced “Everyman” at the Salzburg Festival.
Maxi also delights audiences in front of TV screens and in the movies. He had also directed, amongst others, productions of “Maria Magdalena” and of “Der ehrlose Prozess” in Riedering, but prefers to stay an actor.
Until spring of 2009, he shared a home with his brothers Dominikus and Florian in Baierbach and in early 2008 was elected into the municipal council of Riedering with 1037 votes, thanks to his slogan “Progressive thinking and acting - holding on to traditions”. As part of the council, he got involved with local waste separation, the use of alternative energies in the country side, youth development, and the cultural society “D’Spuileit”. In April 2009 he relinquished his council seat, because he moved to the neighboring community Prutting with his brothers.
He is also an avid sportsman active in: kayaking, snowboarding, skiing - mainly telemark, paragliding (for which he got his pilot’s license in summer of 2008), mountain climbing, and Bavarian folk dancing in the Trachtenverein. He still plays the tuba, but no longer with the Jungen Riederinger - as he doesn’t have time for this anymore. He now practices with his band the “Riederinger Geigenmusi” and also in his role as police commissioner Franz Kappl in the popular TV-series “Tatort” in Saarbrücken.
In
2007 Maxi
was a member
of the jury for the section Bayernfenster [Window into Bavaria] of the
14. Regensburger Short Film Festival, and he was also a member of the
jury responsible for the CineVision Award of the 25. Munich Filmfest,
and at the 27. Munich Filmfest 2009 together with Oscar-winning
director Caroline Link (“Nowhere in Africa”) and
producer Uli Aselmann
(“Winter Journey”, “Little White Lies”) he was part of the jury for
the Young German Cinema Award.
I wonder
what he'll be doing next ....