Max Reinhardt was born Max Goldmann on September 9th, 1873 in Baden, near Vienna. He was the oldest of the seven children born to Wilhelm and Rose Goldmann, an Orthodox Jewish couple. With his only brother, Edmund, young Max played long hours with puppets and from their balcony watched the real puppets in the streets. "He was educated at the Untergymnasium, and was in a banking business till seventeen" (Carter 33).

"Though his parents were remote from theatrical life, they were sympathetic to his fascination with the actors of the Vienna Burgtheater, and, at the urging of one of these, they allowed their son to exchange his boredom as a bank clerk for the excitement of drama school" (Britannica). Although he proved to be an inhibited actor,

On January 1, 1903 he left Brahm and his ensemble for good in order to begin concentrating on his directorship and own personal style. Later that year he took over the Neues and Kleines Theaters. By the end of 1904, he had directed 42 plays. "Reinhardt's reputation as a director was firmly established by 1905 with his epoch-making production of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", a play which became his perennial favorite" (Binghamton). The young director became famous overnight. In the same year, upon Brahm's retirement, Reinhardt was chosen to succeed his former mentor as head of the Deutsches Theater. He completely rebuilt the theater, introducing the latest technological innovations in scenic design, and started a school. Purchasing a tavern next door, Reinhardt remodeled it into a small theater for plays that needed intimacy with the audience. He summarized his new concept in theater with the word Kammerspiele, "chamber plays." "Reinhardt was the first!

needing a beard and heavy makeup to release his talents, Reinhardt won local fame and friends in Salzburg where he studied. In 1890 he began his career under the name Max Reinhardt and in 1894 was invited to Berlin by Otto Brahm, director of the Deutsches Theater. His life took a dramatic turn when on the eve of one of Brahm's production an actor named Muller, cast to play an old skipper, committed suicide. Brahm was devastated, no understudy had rehearsed and the production company risked loss of money. Reinhardt stepped up and performed in Mullers place, saving Brahm's production and establishing his presence, especially in Brahm's eyes. Fr!

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When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, Reinhardt was fortunately abroad. In a letter to the Nazi government he left his theatrical empire to the German people. In 1935, with an unlimited budget, he directed a film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream along with a stage version. He spent the rest of his life dividing his time between the east and west coasts. "American theatrical activities include a workshop for stage, screen and radio in Hollywood, a California Festival on the Salzburg model, several film projects, and the beginning of a promising repertory theater in New York, wh

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