In a new production Brückner took over the role of Boanlkramer in Kurt Wilhelm's play The Brandner Kaspar and eternal life.

[4] Aged 23, he took over the leading role from veteran actor Toni Berger,[5][6] (1921–2005) who had embodied this in the original staging more than 1000 times.

Then in October 2006, he worked together with Gregor Weber (as Stephan Deininger) on Tatort as crime scene investigator Franz Kappl, broadcast on Saarland Radio.

[3] He made his directorial debut, also at the Münchner Volkstheater,[7] in 2012 with Ludwig Thoma's play Magdalena, with his brother Florian Brückner in the lead.

[13] Maximilian Brückner lives with two brothers (he has seven younger siblings) and parents on a farm in Chiemgau in Upper Bavaria.