Artur Müller

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Artur Müller , pseudonym Arnolt Brecht (born October 26, 1909 in Munich ; † July 11, 1987 there ), was a German writer and dramaturge. He mainly wrote plays, short stories, non-fiction books and radio and television reports. In the 1950s he worked as a manager at Hessian television .

Life

The son of a craftsman trained as a bookseller and joined the KPD . From 1933 he served eight months in prison and eight months in a concentration camp for “aiding and abetting high treason”. Active as a writer since 1936, he also published "war literature". In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he remained a rank mountain hunter . In 1944 Müller was active in the Bavarian anti-fascist resistance; as a result, he was sentenced to death in absentia in 1945 . 1949–1953 he worked as a dramaturge at the Kurt Desch publishing house and at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. From 1953 to 1958 he was program director of the Hessian television in Frankfurt / Main , afterwards freelance employee of the SDR television . He now mainly wrote radio and television plays as well as non-fiction books. His fourteen-part television documentary The Third Reich (1960/61) was particularly successful and won the Adolf Grimme Prize, which was awarded for the first time, in 1964, after it was broadcast again, together with Heinz Huber . In 1950, Müller was awarded the literary prize of the Association of Southwest German Authors for his 1848 drama In the Name of Freedom .

Müller and his wife Hertha Barbara, nee Platz, had five children and owned their own home in Groebenzell near Munich. In 1951 he became president of the Georg Kaiser Society .

Book publications

  • The Eastern Window , Roman, Munich 1936
  • Traumherz , Roman, 1938, also as field post edition Dresden 1944
  • On the Edge of a Night , Roman, 1940
  • The shock in France's heart , Munich 1941 (with Egid Gehring, published by Franz-Eher-Verlag , the central publishing house of the NSDAP)
  • I am accompanying a general , 1942
  • Fessel und Schwinge , Collected Dramas, 1942
  • The Truly Beloved , Novelle, Dresden 1943
  • In the name of freedom , drama, 1949
  • Wake Up Damned On Earth , Drama, 1950
  • The lost paradises , Roman, Mannheim 1950
  • The much sought-after little armchair: A year of history in a European province , Roman, Mannheim 1951
  • Admiral Canaris , drama, 1952
  • François Cenodoxus, the Doctor of Paris: A Play , Emsdetten 1954
  • The Renegade , drama, 1954
  • The last patrol ?: A piece of German history , drama, Emsdetten 1958
  • The sun that did not rise: Guilt and fate of Leon Trotsky , Stuttgart 1959
  • Dramas of Naturalism (Ed.), Emsdetten 1962
  • The Third Reich, its history in texts, images and documents (ed.), Two volumes, Munich 1964
  • Conversations on world history , Stuttgart 1965
  • The seven wonders of the world: 5000 years of ancient culture and history , Munich 1966
  • The Germans: their class struggles, uprisings, coups and revolutions. A Chronicle , Munich 1972

Directorial work

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fischer, Killy Literature Lexicon, 1988/92, Volume 8. The name probably means war and regime friendly literature, which is certainly noteworthy in the case of the communist Müller.
  2. ↑ a b Spiegel 1952 , accessed on February 19, 2012
  3. ^ TV series , accessed February 19, 2012
  4. ↑ That did not prevent Spiegel 1960 , accessed on February 19, 2012, from casually dismissing Müller 10 years later as a "revolutionary fabulant".
  5. ↑ Degeners Who is it? , 12th edition, 1955
  6. ^ According to Killy, a satire of the reconstruction in Bavaria
  7. ↑ The appointment of the play in Munich triggered the protest of the admiral's widow and an affair, see Spiegel 1952 , accessed on February 19, 2012
  8. ↑ According to Peter Fischer, Killy Literature Lexicon 1988/92, Volume 8, an "anti-war piece"
  9. ↑ Short review in Spiegel 1959 , accessed on February 19, 2012. The weekly newspaper lists Müller as "former Trotskyists".

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brecht, Arnolt (pseudonym); Georg, Reinhold (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1987
Place of death Munich