Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt was a pioneer of the modern director's theatre and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival. Almost miraculously, something of the magic of this great man of the theatre can still be sensed in Salzburg: on summer evenings when "Everyman" is performed on the city's Domplatz, and at Schloss Leopoldskron, his former residence - still today one of his most genial and elegant productions. Sibylle Zehle has sifted through letters, diaries, and other documents in archives between Vienna and Berlin and retraced the footsteps of this "citizen of the world" all the way to New York and Hollywood. This richly illustrated book, featuring previously unknown photographs, provides new insights into the life and work of Max Reinhardt.