Maximilian Steiner

Maximilian Steiner
Steiner in 1875
Born(1830-08-27)27 August 1830
Died29 May 1880(1880-05-29) (aged 49)
Occupation(s)Actor, theater manager
Known forManaging the Theater an der Wien
SpouseRosa Kollinsky
Children2
RelativesMax Steiner (gradnson)

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. He was the grandfather of Max Steiner.