Gusti Adler’s Estate
Gusti Adler’s Estate
One of three important estates newly incorporated into the Archive’s holdings in 2024 is that of Gusti Adler.
The Salzburg Festival is very grateful to Prof. Leonhard M. Fiedler for the donation of the voluminous estate of Gusti Adler and to Daniel Szelényi, Managing Director of the Schloss Leopoldskron by Salzburg Global, for the successful facilitation of this transfer. Gusti Adler was not only the closest collaborator of the stage director and Festival co-founder Max Reinhardt for 20 years and subsequently his biographer.
She was also a close childhood friend of the incomparable actress, stage director and wife of Max Reinhardt, Helene Thimig. Gusti Adler’s estate, consisting of hundreds of letters, postcards, photographs, address books and notebooks, also contains paintings and personal items such as a dressing gown or a small suitcase – a present from Reinhardt’s brother Edmund. The philologist, German language and literary scholar Leonhard M. Fiedler was born in 1942 and lived near Paris; he was a friend of Gusti Adler, who died in 1985. One of the focal points of his research was Max Reinhardt, about whom he has published several studies and a monograph (1972). Parts of the estate will be conserved, inventoried and catalogued during the 2025 summer semester by students of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg as part of a practice-oriented course.
