!!!Burckhard, Max

b. Korneuburg (Lower Austria), July 14, 1854, 
d. Vienna, March 16, 1912, writer, journalist, studied law. 1890-1898 
artistic secretary and then director of the Vienna Burgtheater; 
cultivated contemporary drama (H. Ibsen, G. Hauptmann, A.  Schnitzler, 
H. von  Hofmannsthal), introduced popular Austrian classics into the 
repertoire (L.  Anzengruber, F.  Raimund) of the Burgtheater and 
engaged among others F.  Mitterwurzer, A.  Sandrock, L.  Medelsky, O.  
Tressler, H.  Bleibtreu and J.  Kainz.

!Works
Novels: Gottfried Wunderlich, 1906; Die Insel der Seligen, 
1908; Aus der Mappe eines Theaterdirektors (sketches); Quer durch das 
Leben, 1908. - Dramas: Die Buergermeisterwahl, 1898; 's Katherl, 1898. 
- Theater, 2 vols., 1905 (reviews, lectures and essays). - Legal 
publications.

!Literature
D. Dey, Die Wiener Moderne und M. B., doctoral thesis, 
Vienna 1989.



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