
Max Eugen Burckhard (14 July 1854,
Korneuburg
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Lower Austria
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- 16 March 1912, Vienna) was director of the
Burgtheater
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, Vienna, from 1890 to 1898.
Vita
Max Burckhard, a lawyer, was the artistic director of the Burgtheater when it opened as the “Neue Haus am Ring” on 12 May 1890. He remained director until 1898. He introduced Sunday matinees at a reduced cost to widen the theatre's potential audience. He later remarked that the less wealthy audiences were the most "critically acute". As director, he remodeled the auditorium in the spring and summer of 1897, and introduced contemporary drama by
Henrik Ibsen
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Gerhart Hauptmann
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Arthur Schnitzler
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Early life
Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, th ...
to the Viennese audience as well as Austrian classics of
Ludwig Anzengruber and
Ferdinand Raimund. He hired such famous actors as
Adele Sandrock
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Early life
Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the daughter of the German ...
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Otto Treßler
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Hedwig Bleibtreu, and
Josef Kainz but was pressured to resign after having "aroused the displeasure of the
Christian Social Party".
Death
Burckhard died in Vienna on 16 March 1912, at the age of 57.
References
External links
Profile oxfordreference.com; accessed 31 August 2016.
accessed 31 August 2016.
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1854 births
1912 deaths
People from Korneuburg
Theatre directors from Austria-Hungary