Robert C. Schnitzer

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Robert C. Schnitzer (born September 8, 1906 in New York , USA , † January 2, 2008 in Stamford , Connecticut ) was an American theater actor, producer and cultural manager.

Life

As a young actor in New York City, Schnitzer played or was responsible for numerous plays on Broadway such as The Brothers Karamazov , Hamlet , An Enemy of the People , Richelieu , Henry V , Richard III , Caponsacchi , Macbeth , and Cyrano de Bergerac . From 1936 to 1939, Schnitzer was the director of Delaware State University and assistant director of the WPA's Federal Theater Project .

After the Second World War, Schnitzer joined the American National Theater and Academy ANTA as a manager for the Experimental Theater in New York. Under his leadership, an American production of Hamlet was performed in Denmark for the first time . Furthermore, under his leadership, the American Ballet Theater's first European tour took place in Europe in 1950 , as well as three festivals in Berlin from 1951 to 1953, the Theater Guild's Oklahoma, the Hall Johnson Choir and the Julliard String Quartet.

With the support of ANTA and the US government, he was the general manager for the promotion of cultural exchange from 1954. Schnitzer has organized hundreds of productions overseas, from school choirs and athletes to celebrities such as Marian Anderson , the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein .

From 1960 he was the head of the American Repertory Company , which was responsible for the export of the best American theater plays on behalf of the US government. He arranged and exported three major US pieces, The Skin of Our Teeth , The Miracle Worker , and The Glass Menagerie , which have been performed in 28 countries in Europe and South America. The American Repertory Company also had Helen Hayes under contract.

In the 1970s he was director of the University of Michigan theater program .

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  1. ^ Obituary for Robert C. Schnitzer
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzer, Robert C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater actor, producer and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2008
Place of death Stamford , Connecticut