Alfred Mühr

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Alfred Fritz Max Mühr ( pseudonym Friedrich Gontard ) (born January 16, 1903 in Berlin ; † December 11, 1981 in Zusmarshausen ) was a right-wing journalist and theater critic who was close to National Socialism during the Weimar Republic . During the Third Reich he was an author and director. After 1945 he lived as a freelance writer.

Life

The father was a Prussian bailiff and the mother was the daughter of a locksmith. He attended the Reform-Realgymnasium in Berlin, but failed his Abitur. He then became a journalist.

He was the features editor for the Deutsche Zeitung . In 1927 he coined the term cultural Bolshevism in an article about a production by Erwin Piscator . He wrote that there was no worldview theater for the legal minded. Should the mobilization of the legal spirit not succeed, the next generation of cultural Bolshevism will rise up in the Volksbühne and storm Germany and its lazy citizens. Not least on Mühr's appeal, a Greater German theater community was formed. He criticized the bourgeoisie and accused them of “cultural bankruptcy” in a collection of essays in 1928. In 1930 he discussed this topic on the radio with Ernst Toller . He hoped that the National Socialists would carry out a renewal of the spirit with the help of cultural policy.

In 1934 he was politically supported as acting director and deputy general manager of the Prussian state theater . He was also a lecturer at the associated drama school. In these functions he worked closely with Gustaf Gründgens until the end of the Second World War . He continued to write essays, published books and radio plays. In 1937 he was involved in the film Citadel of Warsaw .

Because of his National Socialist past, he lived withdrawn in Bavaria after 1945. He continued to work as an author and wrote short stories, novels, youth and non-fiction books. Under a pseudonym he also wrote some anti-church writings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Björn Laser: Cultural Bolshevism. On the semantics of the discourse of the “total crisis” 1929–1933 (theory and mediation of language; vol. 52). Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2010, pp. 99 and 182, ISBN 978-3-631-59416-2 (also dissertation, University of Siegen 2008).

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personal data
SURNAME Mühr, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gontard, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, theater critic and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1981
Place of death Zusmarshausen