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...early spring, Heller hired famed Leopoldskron Castle, once the home of Producer Max Reinhardt. The windows, shattered by a U.S. bomb, were unboarded and mended, the huge rooms refurbished; blackboards and lecture platforms were set up in the glittering corridors where Max Reinhardt once entertained. By July, the school was ready to open...
Faculty and students and administrators live and eat and study in Leopoldskron, an amazing castle whose life Salzburgians say only the arrival of the Seminar saved. Built in 1740 by Archbishop Firmian for his nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death...
Months of preparation and days of travel will reach their culmination today when the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization officially opens at Castle Leopoldskron in Austria...
...selected will be official staff members, leading informal discussion groups to supplement the conference lectures. They will be quartered in the Castle Leopoldskron during the six week Seminar that begins on July...
Reinhardt, founder of the renowned Salzburg music festivals, died in 1943, after purchasing Leopoldskron as an eighteenth century edifice and leaving if a comfortable dwelling. It is one mile from the city of Salzburg...