Maximilian Steiner (theater director)

A caricature of Maximilian Steiner (bottom left) with his boss Friedrich Strampfer (top), drawn by Karl Klietsch in 1869.

Maximilian Steiner (born August 27, 1830 in Ofen , Austrian Empire , † May 29, 1880 in Baden near Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian actor and theater director.

From 1869 to 1875 Steiner ran the Theater an der Wien together with the actress Marie Geistinger . In this role he was able to win the composer Johann Strauss Sohn for the theater and with him initiated the classical phase of the Viennese operetta . The debut Indigo and the 40 Robbers (1871) was followed by the great success Die Fledermaus (1874). When Geistinger accepted a longer engagement at the theater in Leipzig in 1875 , he continued to manage the theater until 1880. After his death he was followed in this role by his son Franz Steiner (born November 20, 1855 in Temesvár ; † February 1920 in Berlin as the owner of a theater agency).

The actor and theater director Gabor Steiner was also a son of Maximilian Steiner. The composer Max Steiner was a son of Gabor Steiner.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steiner, Maximilian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 79 f. ( Digitized version ).
• N. Rubey:  Steiner Maximilian. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 175.

Web links

• Entry on Maximilian Steiner (theater director) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )