Hermann Heinz Ortner

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Hermann Heinz Ortner (born November 14, 1895 in Bad Kreuzen , Upper Austria , † August 18, 1956 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer and playwright .

Life

Ortner was first an actor from 1914, later a director and between 1926 and 1928 head dramaturge at the Neue Wiener Bühne . He then began working as a playwright.

He had his breakthrough in 1928 with the play Tobias Wunderlich , which premiered in 1929 at the Burgtheater and in 1937 as a modern Volksoper on November 24, 1937 in Kassel . In 1932 he wrote the tragedy Schuster Anton Hitt and then began working on historical topics.

Ortner, whose plays were most played on the Austrian stages between 1929 and 1955, joined the NSDAP, which was banned in Austria, as a member in 1933 . At the same time he was also a member of the Federation of German Writers Austria , which worked energetically towards the connection of Austria to the German Reich . Together with Josef Weinträger , Max Mell and other Austrian writers, he emphasized in 1938 in the “ Confession Book of Austrian Poets ” that the Anschluss meant “redemption” for him. In the same year, for Hitler's birthday, his play Ein Volk ist auf! Premiered. In 1939 Ortner was the only "East Mark" poet to become SA-Obertruppführer and a member of the SA culture group. In 1943 he was expelled from the NSDAP and the SA, but reopened in 1944.

Because of his NSDAP membership, he was heavily burdened after the end of the Second World War . In 1949 he became an employee in the office for the reconstruction of Austria's tourism industry and in 1949 was able to inspire politicians from Vienna and Salzburg for his idea of ​​a "Music Olympiad".

Ortner was married to the actress Elisabeth Kallina , the marriage was divorced in 1938, possibly due to Ortner's political considerations, since Kallina (according to the diction at the time) was considered a “ first degree hybrid ”.

Work and effect

Alongside Richard Billinger, Ortner was one of the most played Austrian dramatists of the 1930s. During this decade he wrote 14 dramas, numerous short stories and 5 screenplays. In his plays , Ortner processed historical and legendary material that was shaped by elements from neo-romanticism , expressionism and neo-naturalism and built in his experience as an actor and director.

Ortner's drama Tobias Wunderlich (premiered June 15, 1929 at the Burgtheater in Vienna with Ewald Balser in the title role) translated into eleven languages ​​and set to music by Joseph Haas for an opera in 1935 ; Isabella von Spanien was performed on over 250 German-speaking stages in the 1939/40 season Played space.

Ortner's other better-known plays included Stefan Fadinger, about the chief captain of the rebellious farmers of the Traun and Hausruck districts in the Upper Austrian Peasants' War , which premiered on March 25, 1929 in the Prinzregententheater in Munich . Many of his works were published by Paul Zsolnay Verlag between 1929 and 1940 .

Other dramas by Ortner are Beethoven (commissioned by Burgtheater director Hermann Röbbeling for the actor Werner Krauss , premiered in 1934 but with Ewald Balser in the title role), Der Bauenhauptmann (1941) (reworking of the drama Stefan Fadinger from 1933), Veit Stoss (commissioned by City of Nuremberg , about the sculptor Veit Stoss , 1940) and the comedy Himmeltau (premiered November 30, 1943).

literature

  • Julia Danielczyk: Aesthetics and self-presentation by Hermann Heinz Ortner . In: Playful time. Austrian theater of the thirties . Vienna 1997.
  • On the history of the drama. From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century . In: Reclam's Acting Guide . 19th edition. 1993, p. 430.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus-Peter Böhner: The "Confession Book of Austrian Poets published by the Association of German Writers Austria" (1938) [reprint]. Micro edition 1992, consisting of two files, ISBN 3-89349-502-9
  2. ^ A b Julia Danielczyk: Hermann Heinz Ortner . ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Donors House @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stifter-haus.at
  3. ↑ Music makes Austria . ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Falter , 21/2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.falter.at
  4. ^ A b Julia Danielczyk: Aesthetics and self-staging by Hermann Heinz Ortner . In: Playful time. Austrian theater of the thirties . Vienna 1997
personal data
SURNAME Ortner, Hermann Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuzen , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1956
Place of death Salzburg