Papers, ca. 1920-1989.

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Papers, ca. 1920-1989.

Collection consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, books and theater reviews, education and employment documents, photos, playbills, production notes, course material, lectures, materials about Max Reinhardt and other material relating to Melnitz' career as theater director, student, professor, author and university administrator.

11 cartons (17 linear ft.)1 document box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7586447

University of California, Los Angeles

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Melnitz, William W.

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William Melnitz was born in Germany in 1900 and was a theater director there, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1941. In early 1945 he succeeded Albrecht Joseph as Franz Werfel's secretary. After Werfel's death, later in 1945, Melnitz worked in conjunction with Adolf Klarmann to sort and take stock of Werfel's unpublished and/or unfinished manuscripts, including the first draft of Werfel's last novel, Stern der Ungeborenen, and the fragment Cella. Melnitz, who had begun a doctoral degree in Germa...

University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Theater Arts

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Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943

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Epithet: film actor and director, born Maximilian Goldmann British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0003ac Austrian actor, manager, and director, Ernest Julian Reinhardt (1876-1954) was a creative innovator in scenery and staging. He produced plays and spectacles in Germany, Austria, England and the United States and founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920. From the guide to the Max Reinhardt collecti...