Box 28

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One (1) page typed excerpt from Blätter des Deutschen Theaters, Heft VIII, 1931/1932 : "Gerhart Hauptmann und die Berliner Reinhardt-Bühnen" by Franz Horch. Also gives some information in Hauptmann's 70th birthday.

There is no indication as to who typed this excerpt.

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NOTE : MATERIAL IN THIS FOLDER IS A COPY NOT AN ORIGINAL.

[From former curator's notes] Pages 352-356 from the "Haussermann Dissertation" - "Beginnings of the Eternal Road (Aus dem Programmheft der Uraufführung).

The Eternal Road premiered at the Manhattan Opera House on January 7, 1937, given a lavish and spectacular production involving 245 actors, and ran for 153 performances. [source: Wikipedia]

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Nine (9) page piece, Sonderabdruck aus "Schweizerische Monatshefte," 19. Jahrgang, Heft 8, November 1939 : Das Schweizer Theaterleben im Sommer 1939 by K.G. Kachler.

Scope and Contents 1) "Goebbels wollte bei Reinhardt gespielt werden (Vom Christus-Dramatiker zum Casanova der Film Stars) written by Ludwig Ullman, article appeared in Aufbau (NY), X, Nr. 4, 28. Jan. 1944. 2) COPY Pages 276-77 and 281 from the book Rassesieg in Wien, der Grenzfeste des Reiches by Robert Körber, 1939 (has mention of Reinhardt); 3) COPY Piece from the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, August 24, 1938 : "10,000 'Fascists' Drill in N.Y. Area, Probers Told" (no mention of Reinhardt); 4)...

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NOTE: MATERIAL IN THIS FOLDER IS A COPY NOT AN ORIGINAL.

Letter to the Editor written by Alfred Werner, appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, September 23, 1943 : "Max Reinhardt, Music Maker"

Written on the occasion of Reinhardt's 70th birthday.

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Three (3) typed pages : "Man Without Heir" by Heinz Herald ("Written on the occasion of Max Reinhardt's seventieth birthday by one of his closes collaborators of former days.")

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Two (2) pages, typed: letter to Gerhardt Reinhardt from Franz Werfel regarding text on dedicatory scroll to Max Reinhardt on his 70th birthday. As this is unsigned, it is most probably a typed copy of (part of?) the actual document.

Scope and Contents This folder contains both original and photocopied materials. A number of pieces from published sources are included such as from Wiener Zeitung, NYTimes Magazine, the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Theatre Arts, Drama, Die Schaubühne, Neue Frrei Presse, The Daily Tribune, Nues Wiener Tagblatt, and Der Querschnitt. There are also a number of typed items of which, unfortunately, the writer cannot be identified. One typed item of note that can be identified is the United Artists...

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Obituaries and death notices for Max Reinhardt from published sources.

Includes article: Was geschieht mit Reinhardts Totenmaske? from Demokratisches Volksblat, June 24, 1953 (R6900 PrM).

Scope and Contents Folder contains a number of obituaries and commemorative essays from the periodical Aufbau.Aufbau (German for "building up, construction") is a periodical targeted at German-speaking Jews around the globe. Founded in 1934 in New York City as a newspaper for German Jewish immigrants, it was reinvented in 2004 in Switzerland as a glossy magazine for German-speaking Jews of the 21st century. Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Stefan Zweig wrote for the original...