Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 25 Pfennig

Significant personalities, 1973 edition The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. No special first-day cover envelope Important personalities 25-pfennig value MAX REINHARDT (aka Goldmann), born September 9, 1873, is one of the great innovators of theater in the sense of humanist bourgeois realism. In a few years he has led the German theater to world fame. Like Stanislawski and Gordon Craig Max Reinhardt developed the stage direction to the art of high rank. He took up the theatrical forms of the past and present, the new technical means of art (such as revolving stage, round horizon, plastic decorations, full utilization of the light sources) in order to make them usable for his stage. Especially in the service of a representative classic renewal, but also in the staging of pieces of critical realism, proved Max Reinhardt's ingenious ability to direct. Lively word and mass direction, unrestrained imagination with simultaneous dramatic work, thoughtful use of light and color, music and dance and not least an outstanding ensemble work led to the great internationally acclaimed performances under the direction of Max Reinhardt. The great theater man Otto Brahm brought the young gifted actor and director in 1894 to Berlin, where Max Reinhardt, until his expulsion by the fascist rulers, as a director, actor and artistic director spent his most fertile stage years. For a time, he was also the conductor of several major stages in Berlin, often on sensational guest tours in London, Moscow and New York, co-founder of the Salzburg Festival. Above all, however, the German Theater in Berlin is inextricably linked to the theater work of Max Reinhardt. Here he created his most famous productions such as Hofmannthal's "Everyman" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream". Many important actors have emerged from the school of Max Reinhardt, famous directors learned from him. Although Max Reinhardt always remained a bourgeois artist - he was indifferent to the revolutionary working-class movement and its culture throughout his lifetime - the work of the artist, who died in exile in 1943, remains a mandatory component of the humanist heritage of socialist culture.