Robert C. Schnitzer

Robert C. Carver ( born September 8, 1906 in New York, USA; † 2 January 2008) was an American stage actor, producer and cultural managers.

Life

As a young actor in New York City played or responsible Schnitzer on Broadway numerous pieces such as The Brothers Karamazov, Hamlet, An Enemy of the People, Richelieu, Henry V, Richard III, Caponsacchi, Macbeth, and Cyrano de Bergerac. In the years 1936 to 1939 was director of the Schnitzer Delaware State University and deputy director of the WPA 's Federal Theatre Project.

After the Second World War Schnitzer went to the American National Theater and Academy ANTA as a manager for the Experimental Theatre in New York. Under his leadership, the first time an American production of Hamlet was performed in Denmark. Furthermore, the first European tour of the American Ballet Theatre in Europe took place under his leadership in 1950, and from 1951 to 1953 a total of three festivals in Berlin, the Theatre Guild 's Oklahoma, the Hall Johnson Choir and the Julliard String Quartet.

With the support of ANTA and the U.S. government, he was from 1954, the General Manager for the promotion of cultural exchanges. It was organized by Schnitzer hundreds of productions overseas, from school choirs and athletes about celebrities, such as Marian Anderson, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

From 1960, he was then executive director of the American Repertory Company, which was responsible on behalf of the U.S. Government for export of the best American plays. He arranged and exported three major U.S. American plays, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, and The Glass Menagerie, which have been performed in 28 countries in Europe and South America. The American Repertory Company also had Helen Hayes under contract.

In the 1970s he was head of the theater program at the University of Michigan.