Reinhardt Becomes Director of the Deutsches Theater

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Article abstract: By taking over Berlin’s major theater from Adolph L’Arronge, the young director Max Reinhardt was poised to become Germany’s foremost theater artist and entrepreneur.

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The Deutsches Theater had long been the most prestigious commercial theater in Berlin. Owned by impresario Adolph L’Arronge, it had from 1894 on, under the direction of Otto Brahm, become Germany’s aesthetically and socially most progressive theatrical venue, championing Henrik Ibsen and naturalist playwrights such as Gerhart Hauptmann. In 1904,...

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