Reinhardt stages

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The term Reinhardt-Bühnen denotes the privately run theaters that were under the direct artistic and financial direction of Max Reinhardt .

The theater director and director Max Reinhardt was at all times also an organizer and entrepreneur who rebuilt or rebuilt the houses he had acquired according to his artistic ideas. His stages were characterized by numerous innovations in stage construction such as a constantly curved circular horizon, light decorations and arena stage .

It started with the acquisition of the Berlin cabaret Schall und Rauch in 1902 , which later became the Small Theater. In 1903 the New Theater followed ( Theater am Schiffbauerdamm ) and in 1905 the German Theater with the Kammerspiele founded by Reinhardt.

In 1911 he combined his stages in the form of a theater company. From 1915 to 1918 he also directed the Volksbühne, which he leased . In 1919, after a renovation, he opened the large theater , in 1924 he took over the comedy on Kurfürstendamm and in 1928 the theater on Kurfürstendamm . Reinhardt bought further stages until 1930/31. After all, he had 11 theaters with more than 10,000 seats in Berlin, this in Vienna that since 1923 he headed the theater in Josefstadt , and since 1928 the Schönbrunn Palace Theater .

The Kammerspiele closed in 1931. In 1932 Reinhardt handed over the Berlin theaters to Rudolf Beer and Karl Heinz Martin . The seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 finally put an end to the theater empire of Reinhardt, who was of Jewish descent. The German Theater with the Kammerspiele was transferred to "the German people".

literature

  • Heinrich Huesmann: Reinhardt World Theater. The Reinhardt stages. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7913-0510-7 .
  • Max Reinhardt Archive (ed.): The Reinhardt stages, mirror of society. Exhibition July 26th - September 3rd 1971, Arenberg Castle, Salzburg. Salzburg 1971, DNB 575773243 .