Monument to the theater director Rudolf Beer (1885-1938) in the 7th district of Vienna. The actor and director headed the Brno City Theater from 1918 to 1921, the Vienna Raimund Theater from 1921-24, and the Volkstheater in Vienna from 1924 to 1932. Under Rudolf Beer, the Volkstheater was merged with the Raimund Theater. In 1932 Beer was briefly appointed to succeed Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin; in 1933, after Hitler’s seizure of power, he returned to Vienna. In 1938, after the invasion of German troops and the annexation of Austria, Beer was taken away during a performance of Calderón’s “The Judge of Zalamea”, tortured and thrown out of a car in the Vienna Woods. He took his own life in his apartment on Lerchenfelder Gürtel on May 9, 1938.
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