Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: COMET PHOTO AGENCY
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1955-10-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004715

Inscriptions:
mount verso, [no inscription]; mount recto, handwritten: Reopening of Burgtheater / in Vienna; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / COPYRIGHT BY / COMET / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK / WEINBERGSTR. 25 TEL. 32 79 11 / POSTCHECK: COMET-PHOTO A.G. VIII 45056; typed on label mostly obstructed: [German inscription]; typed on label: The Prologue on the Scene” from Goethe’s Fuast which was also performed at the opening / give an example not only of the perfection in actorship, but also of the technical / devices of the new Burgtehater [sic.]. While the podi; handwritten on label: u; typed on label: m with the 550 members of the house / receded to the background, the scene came up from down below. Werner Krauss as / director, Raoul Aslan as poet and Herman Thimig as funny person played their parts / in dress suits and documented thus the xxxx eternally timeless character of poetry.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / THEATRE
Retouching: N