Arthur Ernst Rutra

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Arthur Ernst Rutra , formerly Samuely, (born September 18, 1892 in Lemberg , † October 9, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp near Minsk ) was an Austrian expressionist playwright, writer, journalist, editor and translator.

Life

Rutra spent his youth in Vienna, where he first studied law, then German and Slavic and received his doctorate in 1917. After the First World War he lived as a freelance translator, writer and publicist in Munich .

He belonged to the protection association of freelance writers and worked for the literary magazine Moment . He was a friend of the Viennese expressionist and activist Robert Müller (1887–1924). Rutra's speech to him was given on June 7, 1925 at the memorial service in the Raimund Theater in Vienna .

After the National Socialists seized power, Rutra emigrated to Austria , where he had been supporting the corporate state with propaganda since 1934 and defending its independence against German attacks.

After the connection of Austria in 1938 he was arrested and was starting April 2, 1938 at the Dachau concentration camp , from 9 October 1939 in Buchenwald . In 1941 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the People's Court . On October 5, 1942, he was deported to Minsk by the Vienna Gestapo , where he was murdered on October 9, 1942 in the nearby Maly Trostinez extermination camp .

Works (selection)

  • Golgotha. A game in nine pictures. Munich: Georg Müller Verlag, 1918
  • Arthur Ernst Rutra u. Otto Schneider (ed.): The dawn. A yearbook of new youth. Munich-Pasing: Roland Verlag 1920
  • The strange man. Wolff, Munich, around 1926.
  • Robert Muller. Thought speech. Hans von Weber Verlag, Munich 1925.
  • The Crown Prince. Tragedy. DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 1928.
  • Zoo - human stories. Hans von Weber Verlag, Munich 1927.
  • Play on the edge. A pamphlet about the theater. Bachmair, Munich 1931.
  • The fifth wheel. Episode from the life of a nobody in 4 acts. Zsolnay, Vienna around 1941. 119 pp. 4 °

literature

  • I. Egger:  Rutra Arthur Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 339.
  • Helmut Kreuzer and Günter Helmes (eds.): Expressionism - Activism - Exotism. Studies of the literary work of Robert Müller 1887-1924. With contemporary reception documents and a bibliography. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981.
  • Paul Raabe : The authors and books of literary expressionism. A bibliographical handbook in cooperation with Ingrid Hannich-Bode, JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00756-1 .
  • Siglinde Bolbecher, Konstantin Kaiser: Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . In collaboration with Evelyn Adunka, Nina Jakl and Ulrike Oedl. Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 , pp. 561f.

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personal data
SURNAME Rutra, Arthur Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian expressionist playwright, writer, journalist, editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1942
Place of death Maly Trostinez extermination camp near Minsk