!!!Reinhardt, Max eigentlich M. Goldmann

b. Baden (Lower Austria), Sept. 9, 1873, 
d. New York (USA), Oct. 31, 1943, actor, director, theatre manager. 
His second wife was the actress H.  Thimig-Reinhardt. 1890 acting 
debut in Vienna, 1894-1902 worked at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, 
which he ran, with intermissions, from 1905 to 1933 . 1901 founded the 
literary revue "Schall und Rauch" in Berlin, which, in 1902, he 
changed to the "Kleines Theater" (1903 big success as director of M. 
Gorki's "Nachtasyl"). Until 1906 ran the Neue Theater, then several 
other Berlin theatres and from 1924 the renovated Theater in der 
Josefstadt in Vienna. 1929 founded a school for acting and directing 
in Vienna, the  Reinhardt-Seminar. R. was co-founder and director of 
the  Salzburg Festival, 1920-1937 staged H. von  Hofmannsthal's 
"Jedermann" ("Everyman"). Initiated a new school of theatre directing 
in which directing plays a central role, with crowd scenes, a 
revolving stage, impressive costumes, sets and lighting effects 
(collaboration with artists such as E. Munch, M. Slevogt or A.  
Roller). R. also worked in film ("Sommernachtstraum", 1935). In 1938 
emigrated to New York via London.

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Editions: Ausgewaehlte Briefe, Reden und Schriften, ed. by F. 
Hadamowsky, 1963; Schriften, Briefe, Reden, Aufzeichnungen, 
Interviews, Gespraeche und Auszuege aus Regiebuechern, ed. by H. 
Fetting, 1975.

!Literature
E. Stern and H. Herald, R. und seine Buehne, 1921; H. 
Herald, M. R., 1953; F. Hadamowsky, R. und Salzburg, 1963; G. Adler, 
M. R. - sein Leben, 1964; H. Braulich, M. R. Theater zw. Traum und 
Wirklichkeit, 1966; H. Kindermann, M. R. Weltwirkung, 1969; G. 
Reinhardt, Der Liebhaber, 1973; H. Thimig-R., Wie M. R. lebte, 1973; 
L. M. Fiedler, M. R. in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, 1975; H. 
Huesmann, Welttheater R. Bauten, Spielstaetten, Inszenierungen, 1983; 
E. Fuhrich and G. Prossnitz (eds.), M. R. "Ein Theater, das den 
Menschen wieder Freude gibt ...", 1987.



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