Research Catalog
Ewald Schindler papers
- Title
- Ewald Schindler papers, 1888-1955; bulk 1903-1949.
- Author
- Schindler, Ewald, 1891-1948.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Moving image | Supervised use | 8-MWEZ+ n.c. 28410 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- .5 lin. ft., (1 box)
- Summary
- The Schindler papers consist of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, pencil drawings, programmes, production schedules, and other material related to the career of Ewald Schindler.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photoprints.
- Clippings.
- Drawings.
- Source (note)
- Weissmuller, Donald
- Biography (note)
- Ewald Schindler, an actor, stage director and opera producer, was born in Berlin in 1891.
- Language (note)
- Correspondence is in English, French, German and Russian.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository
- Catalog cards in Cage Catalog.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- 8-MWEZ+ n.c. 28410
- OCLC
- NYPW90-A52
- Author
- Schindler, Ewald, 1891-1948.
- Title
- Ewald Schindler papers, 1888-1955; bulk 1903-1949.
- Biography
- Ewald Schindler, an actor, stage director and opera producer, was born in Berlin in 1891. At the suggestion of Bruno Walter, Schindler was appointed stage director for the opera at Dusseldorf after having been Walter's assistant at The Statische Opera-Berlin. When Hitler came to power, Schindler fled with his wife, Nora, to Czechozlovakia where he became the director of the opera at the Deutsches Theatre in Prague and a professor of dramatic opera at the State Deutsche Akademie Fur Musik and Verstellende Kunst. Schindler became a Czech citizen in 1939.After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Schindler and his family fled to Italy. When Italy entered the war in 1940, Schindler was put in a concentration camp for eleven months. He came to the United States in 1941 where he became director of the King-Smith Playhouse and founded with the Norwegian dancer Liljan Espenak his own school of dramatics called The Playhouse Studio.Schindler died in the United States in 1948.
- Language
- Correspondence is in English, French, German and Russian.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository: folder level control.Catalog cards in Cage Catalog.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actors.
- Research Call Number
- 8-MWEZ+ n.c. 28410