Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (born September 9, 1873 in Baden bei Wien; died October 31, 1943 in New York City) was an influential Austrian director and actor. He was of Jewish ancestry, and his original name was Maximilian Goldmann. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (470x669, 133 KB) Monument for theatre director Max Reinhardt in front of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin (Mitte, Schumannstraße) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, March 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Max Reinhardt... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (470x669, 133 KB) Monument for theatre director Max Reinhardt in front of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin (Mitte, Schumannstraße) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, March 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Max Reinhardt... Jump to: navigation, search September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Overview of Baden from a southern hill Baden bei Wien is a spa town and medieval city in Lower Austria, 26 kilometres south of Vienna, with a population of 31,000 (2002). ... Jump to: navigation, search October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Jump to: navigation, search Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Jump to: navigation, search The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in many ways, but generally refers to a follower of Judaism, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ...

From 1902 until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933, he worked as a director at various theaters in Berlin. From 1905 to 1930 he managed the Deutsches Theater ("German Theatre") in Berlin and, in addition, the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna from 1924 to 1933. By employing powerful staging techniques and purposefully harmonising stage design, language, music and choreography, Reinhard introduced new dimensions into German theater. Jump to: navigation, search 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Look up Nazi on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Jump to: navigation, search ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Distionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ...

Kurt Tucholsky, a poet of the Weimar era, described Reinhardt's spectacular production of Danton's Death, a nineteenth century warhorse that Reinhardt restaged in Berlin in the early 1920s, only a few years after the German Revolution of 1918-19: Kurt Tucholsky Kurt Tucholsky (Berlin, January 9, 1890 – December 21, 1935 in Gothenburg) was a German journalist, satirist and writer. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (in German Weimarer Republik). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy was abolished following the nations defeat in World... Jump to: navigation, search Revolutionaries at machine gun posts, Berlin, November 1918 The German Revolution is a series of events that occurred in 1918-1919, culminating in the overthrow of the Kaiser and the establishment of a democratic republic. ...

The Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna, which is arguably the most important German-language acting school, was installed implementing his ideas.

In 1920, Reinhardt established the Salzburg Festival with Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi-governed Germany in 1938, he emigrated first to England, then to the United States, where he had already successfully directed a popular stage version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, using Jimmy Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and other stars of Hollywood. Reinhardt followed that success by directing a film version using the same cast in 1935. The Nazis banned the film because of the Jewish ancestry of both Reinhardt and Felix Mendelssohn, whose overture was used throughout the film. The Salzburg Festival is a prominent music festival in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The festival was founded in 1877 but was discontinued in 1910. ... Jump to: navigation, search Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. ... German troops march into Austria on 12 March 1938. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid-1590s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jimmy Cagney was part of the Legends of Hollywood USPS stamp series. ... Actor Mickey Rooney speaks at the Pentagon in 2000 during a ceremony honoring the USO. Joseph Yule, Jr. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of thirty Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known simply as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer of the early Romantic period. ...

In 1940 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. At that time, he was married to his second wife, the actress Helene Thimig. Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...

His son, Gottfried Reinhardt, was a well-regarded film produceer in his own right. His grandson, Stephen Reinhardt, is a labor lawyer who has been one of the most liberal judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since his appointment by Jimmy Carter in 1980. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Jump to: navigation, search James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Work on Broadway

• Sumurun (pantomime) (1912) - leader of the Deutches Theater of Berlin on a New York tour
• The Miracle (play) (1924) - Co-playwright and Director
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (play, Revival (play)(1927) - Producer
• Jederman (play) (1927) - Co-producer
• Peripherie (play) (1928) - playwright
• Redemption (play, Revival (play)(1928) - Director
• The Eternal Road (musical Biblical pageant) (1937) - Director
• The Merchant of Yonkers (play and farce of The Merchant of Venice) (1938) - Director
• Sons and Soldiers (play) (1943) - Producer and Director

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Links

• Max Reinhardt at the Internet Broadway Database