Maximilian Steiner

For the Austrian-American composer (1888–1971), see Max Steiner.
Steiner in 1875
Cartoon of Maximilian Steiner (bottom left) with his boss Friedrich Strampfer (top). By Karel Klíč, 1869.

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] He was the grandfather of Max Steiner.

  1. ^ W. E. Yates, Theatre in Vienna: A Critical History, 1776-1995 (2005), p. 151.