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Arthur Kahane, Reinhardt's Dramaturge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Henry Kahane
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I grew up in the world of the Deutsches Theater, a witness of Reinhardt's early period in Berlin, in the years before the First World War. I remember Reinhardt's father, a noble, distinguished-looking gentleman, friendly, quiet, and dignified; Reinhardt's mother, shy and easily worried; their early home in Den Zelten, then later and for many years, the beautiful Old-Berlin house on the Kupfergraben; many evenings with endless telephone discussions between Max Reinhardt and my father, devoted to the interpretation of the play for which Reinhardt was preparing the Regiebuch; the exciting atmosphere of a dress rehearsal; the metropolitan, cosmopolitan glamour of a Reinhardt premiere; summers in Bavaria, where Reinhardt directed the Münchener Festspiele; the summer of 1913, in Massa and Carrara, when Reinhardt tried his hand with the new medium, the film. I came in touch with that world through the role played in it by my father, Arthur Kahane. It is his portrait that I should like to sketch.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , October 1978 , pp. 59 - 65
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1978

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1. Die Insel der Seligen, 1913; screenplay by Arthur Kahane.

2. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem and New York, 1971–1972, XI, 1264–5, Wielka Illustrowana Encyklopedja Powszechna, Cracow, 1929–1938, X, 112.

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8. ibid., pp. 189–93.

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19. Das junge Deutschland (Monatsschrift für Literatur und Theater: Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Theater zu Berlin), Berlin, 1918–1920 [repr., Nendeln/Liechtenstein, 1969].

20. Clemens und seine Mädchen, Berlin, 1918; Willkommen und Abschied, Berlin, 1919; Die Tarnkappe, Berlin, 1920. The manuscript of his last novel, significantly entitled Die Unzeitgemässen, was lost. A slim volume of poetry, Lieder (Berlin, 1910), an echo of his Viennese style, had preceded the novels.

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23. In the stage directions to Act I. The name is usually misprinted as Max Sterner.

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