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Max Reinhardt ( September 9 , 1873 - October 31 , 1943 ) was an influential Austria n- American Director and Actor . He was born as Maximilian Goldmann, of Jew ish ancestry, in Baden Bei Wien . From 1902 until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933 , he worked as a director at various Theater s in Berlin . From 1905 to 1930 he managed the '' Deutsches Theater '' ("German Theatre") in Berlin and, in addition, the Theater In Der Josefstadt in Vienna from 1924 to 1933 . By employing powerful Staging techniques, and harmonising Stage Design , Language , Music and Choreography , Reinhard introduced new dimensions into German theater. Kurt Tucholsky , a poet of the Weimar Era , described Reinhardt's spectacular production of ''Danton's Death'', a Georg Büchner play that Reinhardt restaged in Berlin in 1921 , in the following terms: The Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna, which is arguably the most important German -language acting school, was installed implementing his ideas. In 1920 , Reinhardt established the Salzburg Festival with Richard Strauss and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal . After the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi-governed Germany in 1938 , he emigrated first to England , then to the United States , where he had already successfully directed a popular stage version of Shakespeare 's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream ''. Reinhardt followed that success by directing a film version using a mostly different cast in 1935 , that included James Cagney , Mickey Rooney , Joe E. Brown and Olivia De Havilland, amongst others. Ms. De Havilland had also appeared in Reinhardt's stage production. The Nazis banned the film because of the Jewish ancestry of both Reinhardt and Felix Mendelssohn , whose music (arranged by Erich Korngold ) was used throughout the film. ]] In 1940 he became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States. At that time, he was married to his second wife, the actress Helene Thimig . He died in New York City in 1943 . Reinhardt is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson , Westchester County , New York . His son, Gottfried Reinhardt, was a well-regarded film producer. His grandson, Stephen Reinhardt, is a Labor lawyer who has been one of the most liberal judges on the United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit since his appointment by Jimmy Carter in 1980 . WORK ON BROADWAY
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