Martin, Karl-Heinz

(1888-1948)

   Director. Martin was best known in the 1920s as a director who specialized in the Expressionist style, staging several plays by Georg Kaiser, Fritz von Unruh, and Ernst Toller. In 1918, he even wrote a book about staging Expressionism. Martin briefly worked for Max Reinhardt in the early 1920s, but by the mid-1920s he had begun directing popular plays for commercial theaters. In the Third Reich he began directing films, and after the war he was director of the Hebbel Theater in Berlin.