Max Reinhardt

"There are evenings when it is not the theater but the audience that fails." Max Reinhardt (originally Maximilian Goldmann ; born on September 9th 1873 in Baden (Lower Austria); died on October 31, 1943 in New York) was a person who did quite a bit of theater and was the Boss of Volksbühne from 1915 to 1918. After that he also ruled the Großes Schauspielhausdesigned by Hans Poelzig.
== Life and work ==
==== Before ∇ ====
In 1894 Reinhardt came to Berlin after training as an actor and apprentice in Austria. There he acted at the DT and gradually built several theater stages. It went so much like Geschnitten Brot that all the stages that were franchised by Max Reinardt was soon referred to as an “empire”.
==== '∇' ====
After his predecessor had turned out to be a true Emil and not only did the number of members decrease, but also the numbers turned dark red thanks to the building of the Volksbühne, the Neue Volksbühne eV forced to act as soon as possible in order not to appear as a complete fool with crowning him the winner of the sophomore season of Who's the Boss here?. Kiehn, Ute. Theater in the "Third Reich": Volksbühne Berlin. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin, 2001. Reinhardt was not only pretty hip at the time, he also ran the bourgeois DT, so he was in direct competition with the workers' theater Volksbühne. Thanks to a fairly fair deal, he agreed to get the house at the Platz out of trouble for two years and lease the theater. And he was not that unsuccessful in doing so. In any case, the membership increased again. Davies, Cecil William. Theater for the People: The Story of the Volksbühne. United Kingdom, Manchester University Press, 1977. Nonetheless, it was actually quite an Emilan move on his part, because most of his productions were actually just copies of his own productions for DT, only for a few People. Volksbühne. Zur Wiedereröffnung. Berlin, 1954. Since there was no television at that time, let alone YouTube, where the similarities could have been exposed quickly, nobody except the critics noticed. Maxim Vallentin later used a similar ruse.
==== After ∇ ====
He directed quite a few theaters and even founded a theater school. In fact, everything he did turned to gold. Since he was still called that, it was another reason why there were quite a few envious people at some point, who then not infrequently voted for the Nazis. When one of them became head boss in 1933, Reinhardt took the first opportunity to escape. Then he followed some former companions, such as Ernst Lubitsch, to the USA and was also successful there, albeit with initial difficulties and to a different extent. 
== Links ==
* Max Reinhardt for beginners - Adulation on YouTube 
== References ==
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