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Maximilian Steiner
Austrian actor and theater director and manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Austrian-American composer (1888–1971), see Max Steiner.
Maximilian Steiner (27 August 1830 – 29 May 1880) was an Austrian actor and theater director and manager. He is known particularly for his leadership of Vienna's Theater an der Wien from 1869 to 1880, a period during which the theater reduced the importance of folk plays (dialect drama) and was prominent in developing and promoting the fashion of a Viennese style of operetta.[1]
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