Finding aid for the collection on Max Reinhardt 6245

Diann Benti
USC Libraries Special Collections
2021 October
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu


Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Collection on Max Reinhardt
Creator: Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943
Creator: Strnad, Oskar, 1879-1935
Creator: Major, Henry, 1889-1948
Identifier/Call Number: 6245
Physical Description: 3.9 Linear Feet 2 boxes
Date (inclusive): approximately 1910s-approximately 1930s
Abstract: This collection contains materials related to the work of Austrian theater and film director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) including European set design plans and some papers, dating from circa 1910s-1930s, and a scrapbook of memorabilia from Reinhardt's 1927-1928 New York repertory theater season.
Language of Material: German, English.

Biographical / Historical

Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials related to the work of Austrian theater and film director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) including European set plans and a few papers, dating from circa 1910s-1930s, and a scrapbook of memorabilia from Reinhardt's 1927-1928 New York repertory theater season.

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Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Collection on Max Reinhardt, Collection no. 6245, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Provenance unknown. The scrapbook has a University of Southern California bookplate: "From the library of Max Reinhardt."

Related Materials

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Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Actors -- Photographs
Actors -- Pictorial works
Caricatures
Set designers -- Germany -- Archival resources
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Archival resources
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- Archival resources
Theater -- Germany -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Theater -- Austria -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Scrapbooks
Set design drawings
Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943 -- Archives

Box 1

Theater plans and papers approximately 1910s-approximately 1930s

Scope and Contents

Box 1 contains approximately 60 ground plans, elevations, and sectional drawings for various theatrical productions in Europe. Most of the designs are unlabeled, though some mention locations including the Boboli Gardens in Florence, Italy, and the Theatre Pigalle in Paris, France, as well as designs for Lebender Leichnam (The Living Corpse) and Der Schwierige (The Difficult One), signed by Austrian set designer Oskar Strnad. Many of the plans are wrapped in letterhead for "Schauspielschule des Deutschen Theaters / Direktion Max Reinhardt."
In addition, there is an inventory from Hugo Baruch & Cie. for costumes for "The Miracle" (1911); an inventory in English for "Miracle Costumes and Properties"; two hand-colored black-and-white photographs of actors in costume labeled "Das große Salzburger 'Welttheater'" and "'Mirakel' Stand der Madonna"; an 11 pages of a manuscript in German (incomplete), beginning: "Von der salzburgischen Szenerie wird man immer zu Festen angeregt, ja aufgefordert"; and a rolled panorama photograph of the Hollywood Bowl, ca. 1920s.
Box 2

Scrapbook 1927-1928

Scope and Contents

Box 2 contains a scrapbook album of memorabilia pertaining to "Max Rheinhardt's New York Repertory Season, 1927-1928" presented to Reinhardt by writer and director S. Jay Kaufman (1866-1957). The album containing photographs, programs, brief letters from individuals accepting the request to have their names on the "Committee of the Theatre," and caricature drawings of members of the repertory by Henry Major.