Carl Clewing

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Carl Clewing
Carl Clewing in Emilia Gallotti and in Taifun (around 1920)

Theodor Rudolph Carl Clewing (born April 22, 1884 in Schwerin ; † May 15, 1954 in Badenweiler ) was a German opera singer ( tenor / heroic tenor ), stage and film actor , composer of the song Every day is not a Sunday and professor at the university for Music in Berlin .

Life

Clewing comes from an old Westphalian Schulzen family who was first mentioned in documents in 1486 on Schulte-Klevinghof in the parish of Pelkum . In his birthplace Schwerin, his father was the owner of the local lion pharmacy. Clewing studied in Prague , where he joined the Constantia fraternity , which in 1952 became part of the Sudetia fraternity in Munich. From 1909 he was an actor in Berlin and was appointed royal court actor in 1911, in the same year he also made his debut as a film actor in The Foreign Bird . When the First World War broke out , he volunteered, was initially a reporter and at the end of 1914 belonged to the parliamentary group led by Achim von Arnim , which requested Reims to surrender. Rudolf Binding processed this episode in the story We call for Reims to be handed over to literary terms. Later Clewing was also a fighter pilot and got to know Hermann Göring . During the war he received several awards and was promoted to lieutenant .

Due to his artistic activity in front of front and disabled troops of the Central Powers (see awards below ), he returned to Berlin after the war as an opera singer but also as a film actor. In 1922 he became a visiting lecturer and professor at the State Conservatory of the University of State and Economics in Detmold . In autumn 1922 he had an engagement as a hero tenor at the Berlin State Opera . In 1924/25 he took part in the Bayreuth Festival and sang Walter von Stolzing and Parsifal . In December 1928 he was appointed associate professor for singing, voice training and practical phonetics at the University of Music in Vienna . At the beginning of 1931 he moved back to Germany to the Hirschfelde manor near Werneuchen . Shortly afterwards he was appointed professor at the State University of Music in Berlin and was also a representative of the German Stage Members' Cooperative in the school department of the German Stage Association as well as a member of the Berlin Examination Board for Opera & Drama and moved to Berlin-Lichterfelde-Ost.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Clewing was a member of the NSDAP , the SA and the SS from May 1933 . However, he was expelled in 1934 because he had kept quiet about his " non- Aryan relatives" and his earlier membership in a Masonic lodge .

In the second half of the 1930s Clewing, who was also a passionate hunter and collector of hunting culture, was commissioned by the then Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring to publish the series of Monuments to German Hunting Culture . The first volume, Musik und Jägerei , was published as early as 1937, as was a popular edition 100 Jägerlieder and a Luftwaffe songbook . During this time he also developed a small form of the Fürst-Pless horn , which he also called Clewing's pocket hunting horn to remember .

On May 27, 1938 Clewing gave a lecture on the subject of singing and speaking as part of the Reichsmusiktage . Not until May 1939 did he return as an opera singer. In the same year he wrote a cantata for the birth of Edda Göring .

After the Second World War he lived in the sanatorium in Glotterbad near Freiburg im Breisgau and retired at the Dr. Saller in Badenweiler.

In the Soviet occupation zone his writings became the Luftwaffe song book (published in association with Hans Felix Husadel , 1939) and eagle song book . Field edition of the Luftwaffe songbook (1941) placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

family

In 1923 Clewing married Elisabeth (Else) born in Berlin. Mulert, adopted Arnhold, widowed Kunheim, from whom he divorced in 1940. They had a son, Carl Peter (1924–1943, died at Salerno ).

Filmography (selection)

Memberships

  • Cooperative of German Stage Members
  • Prague fraternity, Constantia, around 1904
  • Masonic Lodge for Resistance (Photo 1906)
  • Berlin fraternity Franconia SS 1920
  • Burschenschaft Saxonia Hannoversch-Münden SS 1923 (as founding member)
  • Fraternity Arminia Vienna WS 1927

Awards

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 111-113.
  • Paul Weinrowsky: Frankenchronik. History of the Berlin fraternity Franconia. For the 50th foundation festival. Old gentlemen's association of the Berlin fraternity Franconia e. V., Berlin 1928.

Web links

Commons : Carl Clewing  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cyranos.ch/smclew-d.htm
  2. ↑ Rudolf G. Binding : We request Reims to hand over. Anecdote from the Great War. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1935, Clewing is expressly mentioned in the afterword on p. 101.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 99.
  4. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: New journey through the Oberbarnim. Extract from: Oberbarnimer district calendar. 1940, ZDB ID 749185-2 .
  5. ↑ Taschenjagdhorn in B. Archived from the original on August 19, 2009 ; Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
  6. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. First addendum. Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1947, pp. 26-27 .
  7. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. Second addendum. Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1948, pp. 44–49 .
  8. ^ A b Paul Weinrowsky: Frankenchronik. History of the Berlin fraternity Franconia. For the 50th foundation festival. Old gentlemen's association of the Berlin fraternity Franconia e. V., Berlin 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Clewing, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clewing, Theodor Rudolph Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer, stage and film actor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1954
Place of death Badenweiler