1. In 1920, Max Reinhardt established the Salzburg Festival by directing an open air production of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's acclaimed adaptation of the Everyman Medieval mystery play in the square before the Cathedral with the Alps as a background.
21 Facts About Max Reinhardt
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In 1935, Max Reinhardt directed his first and only motion picture in the United States through Warner Brothers, the Expressionist film adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring Mickey Rooney, Olivia De Havilland, and James Cagney.
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One year later, Max Reinhardt relocated to Germany, joining the Deutsches Theater ensemble under director Otto Brahm in Berlin.
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Max Reinhardt was one of the contributors of the Swedish avant-garde theatre magazine Thalia between 1910 and 1913.
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In October 1922 Max Reinhardt was in the audience when The Dybbuk was staged by the Vilna Troupe at the Roland Theater in Vienna.
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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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From 1915 to 1918, Max Reinhardt worked as director of the Volksbuhne theatre.
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On 23 December 1917, Max Reinhardt presided over the world premiere of Reinhard Sorge's Kleist Prize-winning stage play Der Bettler, which had long been, "a succes de scandale, an innovation, changing the course of theatrical history with its revolutionary staging techniques".
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In 1920, Max Reinhardt established the Salzburg Festival with Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, always directing the annual production of Hoffmansthal's acclaimed adaptation of the Medieval Dutch morality play Everyman, in which the Christian God sends Death to summon an archetype of the Human Race to Judgment Day.
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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 won the school, Ben Bard Drama, from Ben Bard in a poker game.
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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 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.