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Invoice from Patent-Möbel-Fabrik Primissima (furniture store) for the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, October 12, 1923 (R5645 (o))

Overview From the Collection: The Max Reinhardt Library and Archives at Binghamton University is one of several notable collections worldwide of books and manuscripts dealing with the work of the Austro-German theatre director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). It contains approximately 15,000 books from Reinhardt’s personal library and over 10,000 manuscripts, items of correspondence, photographs, programs, critical reviews, directorial promptbooks, writings, and related supporting materials totaling approximately 100 cubic...

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Letter to Lili Darvas from Walter Liebman in which was enclosed the proposed contract for Max Reinhardt’s services as director of “La Belle Helene,” March 17, 1943 (R1203 photocopy)

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Draft of proposed contract with the New Opera Company, Inc. regarding La Belle Helene mentioned in letter in Box 33, Folder 1, prepared by Law Offices of Liebman and Eulau, March 17, 1943 (R1204 photocopy)

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Letter to Lili Darvas from Walter Liebman concerning copy of letter sent to Yolanda Mero-Irion in regards to La Belle Helene, March 17, 1943 (R1206 photocopy)

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Note written during Fledermaus performance in Paris. Signed by Lotte Schöne, Max Reinhardt, Helene Thimig, L. Kainer (Ludwig?), Margaret Kainer, Richard Gerner, Wlad. Sokoloff, Emanuel List, Franz and Bettina Brahn, December 1, 1933 (R2250 PrM poor photocopy)

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Contract between the management of the Deutsches Theater, Kammerspiele, Grosses Schauspielhaus and Felix Hollander, Berlin, June 6, 1923. Hollander agrees to write the music for Die fromme Helene by Sylvester (R2675 PrM photocopy)

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Contract between Julius Rudolph, director of the Residenz-theater and the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 1907. Deutsches Theater is renting the Residenz Theater in Hannover for the performance of Friedensfest by G. Hauptmann on March 27, 1907 (R2676 PrM photocopy)

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Letter from Max Reinhardt’s lawyer, Dr. Frankfurter, to the European Film Alliance re: how to proceed with an existing contract, May 24, 1922 (R5059 PrM (o) 1 photocopy, 1 typed copy)

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Handout to special student rehearsal designed to illustrate Max Reinhardt’s directorial techniques, Max Reinhardt’s first American stage production of The Eternal Road by Franz Werfel, January 9, 1935, with handwritten footnote by Hel. Thimig (R5086 PrM(o) 1 photocopy, 1 typed copy)