Max Reinhardt (1890-1943) Viennese stage director who made his career in Berlin and Munich. In 1906, Reinhardt took over the management of Neues Theater where he had a sensational success with A Midsummer Night's Dream, which made use of the theater's new rotating stage. At the same time, Reinhardt reopened the Deutsches Theater and established an adjunct acting school. In 1920, the Salzburger Festspiele opened with Reinhardt's production of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jederman. Reinhardt turned down the Nazi's offer to become an "honorary Aryan" and left Germany. His last production was staged in March 1933. In the United States, Reinhardt produced a film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Hollywood, and staged Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers in New York. |
