Alfred Auerbach

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Alfred Auerbach (born June 9, 1873 in Stuttgart ; † January 31, 1954 there ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Alfred Auerbach was born as the son of the businessman Benjamin Auerbach and his wife Emma, ​​née Fröhlich, in Stuttgart and attended secondary school there. On his mother's side, he was related to the writer Berthold Auerbach .

The family moved to Frankfurt am Main around 1883 . After his school days, Auerbach was forced to complete a commercial apprenticeship in order to take over the family business. From 1895 Auerbach was able to escape the unpopular profession and studied at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory .

After successfully passing the exam in the dramatic subject, Emil Claar engaged him in 1898 for the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . Auerbach achieved the breakthrough in 1902 when he took over the character subject after the death of Klemens Grunwald . Until 1923 he was a member of the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt.

In 1908 he married and had a daughter.

Auerbach gained great popularity as an actor, Swabian dialect artist, radio play writer and humorist. Auerbach has written several dialect pieces and comedies for the stage, including “Schwobastreich” (1904), “D'letscht Sau” (1906) and “Auf 'em Amt” (1911). SÜRAG, Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG Stuttgart, broadcast radio plays by and with him as early as 1925. On the radio, he worked with Georg Ott, another Swabian dialect artist. In 1927, the RRG bought his radio play manuscript “Dr. Funkius ”.

From 1906 to 1933 he headed the theater department at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory and gave acting classes. His students included u. a. Joseph Offenbach (recte Ziegler) and Heinz Moog .

His position at the conservatory was terminated in August 1933 because of his Jewish descent. He then got involved with the Jewish Cultural Association in Frankfurt, where he organized music theater evenings and worked as a text writer, director and actor. In June 1940 he emigrated to the USA and worked in Chicago for a German-language radio station. During this time he tried in vain to gain a foothold in Hollywood .

After his return to Germany in 1951 he gave lectures on the radio again, but did not settle permanently in Stuttgart until November 1953. His autobiography A Swabian studies America was published in 1948 by the Stuttgart-based Behrens-Verlag.

Alfred Auerbach died on January 31, 1954 in Stuttgart.

Works

  • Schwobeköpf. Rural picture in 1 elevator (1904)
  • Schwobastreich '. Two rural comedies (= D 'inheritance. D'r Weltond'rgang) (1905)
  • From Schiller's youth, 2 dramat. Scenes (= D'r Herr Regimentsfeldscher. Schiller on d. Solitude) (1905)
  • The last pig (1906)
  • Facial expressions, exercise material for actors (1909 and more)
  • In the barracks. Swabian genre painting in one elevator (1911)
  • In office (1911)
  • Europe. Sinking or new building. People's Speach Choir [cover title: People's Speach Choir] (1926)
  • Stage plays for Jewish celebrations (1935)
  • A Swabian studies America (1948)

Audio documents

Alfred Auerbach's voice has been preserved on five gramophone records, which he discussed in the Swabian dialect in the late 1920s with “chats”.

"Gramophone"

582 a (mx. 1395 BH-IV) Swabian Railway: chat (Auerbach)
582 b (mx. 1397 BH-IV) Swabian recruits and crier: chat (Auerbach)
Alfred Auerbach, reciter

2200 / B 46867 (mx. 923 BH IV ) "North and South" - chat: a) God creates the Swabians, b) Difference between North and South
Germans ( A. Auerbach) 2200 / B 46868 (mx. 925 BH IV) "Schwobastreich" - chat: a) The Swabian in the mirror, b) The Swabian on the train (A. Auerbach)
Alfred Auerbach, reciter. Swabian dialect. Recitation.

2201 / B 46869 (mx. 924 BH IV) "Swabian Stories": Chat: a) The loudspeaker, b) The sweet boy (A. Auerbach)
2201 / B 46870 (mx. 929 BH IV) "The Swabian Zecher": Chat: a) Das Hektorle, b) The official, c) The official, d) The old Ofe (A. Auerbach)
Alfred Auerbach, reciter. Swabian dialect. Recitation.

2202 / B 46871 (mx. 931 BH IV) "Swabian Railway": chat. a) The bad women - b) Departure (A. Auerbach)
2202 / B 46872 (mx. 932 BH IV) Swabian telephone: Chat (A. Auerbach)
Alfred Auerbach, reciter. Swabian dialect. Recitation.

2203 / B 46873 (mx. 933 BH IV?) Children's stories (A. Auerbach)
2203 / B 46974 (mx. 934 BH IV?) Es Leberle (A. Auerbach)
Alfred Auerbach, reciter. Swabian dialect. Recitation.

literature

  • Auerbach, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 225-229.
  • Helmut Kreuzer: On early German radio plays and radio play concepts (1924-1927 / 28): Hans Flesch, Alfred Auerbach, Rudolf Leonhard, Oskar Moehring . Siegener Periodicum on International Empirical Literature Studies (SPIEL). 19th year, issue 1 / 2000. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 2000 ( online version )
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991. Large octave hardcover - unpag., Num. Fig.
  • Joachim Carlos Martini: Music as a form of spiritual resistance: Jewish musicians 1933-1945  ; the example of Frankfurt am Main. Brandes + Apsel Verlag Gm, 2010. ISBN 978-3860996218 , 493 pages.
  • Matthias Pasdzierny: Resumption ?: Return from exile and West German musical life after 1945. Publisher edition text + kritik, 2020. ISBN 978-3967070033 , 984 pages.
  • Johannes Schwamberger: The radio play: History of an art form . Diplomica Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3842895669 , 118 pages.
  • Annegret Völpel, Zohar Shavit: German-Jewish children's and young people's literature: a basic outline of the history of literature. Springer-Verlag, February 18, 2017. ISBN 978-3476052537 , 465 pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ z. B. Alfred Auerbach: D'Erbschaft, rural comedy in one picture. Swabian radio play (Alfred Auerbach evening), language of the radio play: Swabian. Director: Georg Ott. SÜRAG-Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (Stuttgart) 1925, first broadcast: November 26, 1925, live broadcast without recording. See hoerspiele.dra.de
  2. ↑ Ott's real name was Eugen Essig and was employed by SÜRAG as an announcer and game director. Auerbach and Ott also took part in the radio play as speakers: Auerbach spoke to the farm farmers, Ott the corner farmers.
  3. ↑ Schwamberger p. 16
  4. ↑ cf. Martini pp. 56, 162, 337-340
  5. ↑ z. B. in Singspiele by Rosy Geiger-Kullmann, cf. Pasdzierny p. 674. On Geiger-Kullmann cf. Peri Arndt: Rosy Geiger-Kullmann, in: Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era, Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (ed.), Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2006.
  6. ↑ cf. Pasdzierny p. 674
  7. ↑ Auerbach, Alfred: A Swabian is studying America. (1st - 5th thousand). Stuttgart, Behrendt-Verl. 1948. 119 pp., Paperboard m. Silver embossing.
  8. ^ Anthology, contained not only one-act plays, but also a radio play, two spoken symphonies and biblical shadow plays, cf. Völpel-Shavit p. 360


personal data
SURNAME Auerbach, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1954
Place of death Stuttgart