17 Facts About Max Reinhardt

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Max Reinhardt was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer.

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One year later, Reinhardt relocated to Germany, joining the Deutsches Theater ensemble under director Otto Brahm in Berlin.

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In 1918 Max Reinhardt purchased Schloss Leopoldskron castle in Salzburg, which had fallen into disrepair.

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Re-opened as Kleines Theater it was the first of numerous stages where Max Reinhardt worked as a director until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933.

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Max Reinhardt was signatory 66; he later expressed regret at signing.

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In 1920, Max Reinhardt established the Salzburg Festival with Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, notably directing an annual production of the morality play Jedermann in which God sends Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment.

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Max Reinhardt opened the Max Reinhardt School of the Theatre in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard.

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Max Reinhardt took a greater interest in film than most of his contemporaries in the theater world.

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Max Reinhardt made films as a director and from time to time as a producer.

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Max Reinhardt's first staging was the film Sumurun in 1910.

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Max Reinhardt sold the film rights for the film adaptation of the play Das Mirakel to Joseph Menchen, whose full-colour 1912 film of The Miracle gained world-wide success.

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Max Reinhardt made two films, Die Insel der Seligen and Eine venezianische Nacht, under a four-picture contract for the German film producer Paul Davidson.

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In 1935, Max Reinhardt directed his first film in the US, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Max Reinhardt founded the drama schools Hochschule fur Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin and the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

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Max Reinhardt died of a stroke in New York City in 1943 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

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One of his grandsons, Stephen Max Reinhardt, was a labor lawyer who served notably on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from his appointment by Jimmy Carter in 1980 until his death in 2018.

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In 2015 his great-granddaughter Jelena Ulrike Max Reinhardt was appointed as researcher at the University of Perugia in German literature.