Abstract

This collection includes newspaper clippings, photographs, various theater materials, and correspondence relating to the career of actor, director and stage designer Fritz Halbers (1894 - 1987).

Overview

This collection consists of 12 studio portrait cabinet card photographs of actor and theater director Berthold Held in costume and 1 studio portrait of Held. All measure 6 1/2 inches by 4 1/4 inches. Studio information is printed on the backs of the cards. Three of the photographs are signed by Held on the reverse. The collection also includes an 1896 letter to Emil Rameau in German script on a single sheet of stationery.

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Harry Walden , born Ludwig Patrick Harry Schreier (1875-1921), was a German theater actor with a short film career in Vienna in the late 1910s.

At the end of the 1900s he settled in Berlin, where he also performed between 1908 and 1910 under Max Reinhardt's directorship. He played under his direction, especially in tragedies by Shakespeare, Goethe and Schiller : Edgar in King Lear, the title hero in Clavigo, Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe and Don Carlos.

Overview 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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This scrapbook consists mainly of news clippings.

Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was an Austrian actor of Hungarian birth. He was highly active in theatres in Austria and Germany from 1873–1910. See Biographical Note for more information.

Scope and Contents

This scrapbook is a continuation from Item 1 and consists mainly of news clippings.

Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was an Austrian actor of Hungarian birth. He was highly active in theatres in Austria and Germany from 1873–1910. See Biographical Note for more information.