Curt Corrinth

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Curt Corrinth: The desecration of the dead. A game of voluptuous death . With a title woodcut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Berlin, Alfred Richard Meyer , 1913

Curt Corrinth (born February 20, 1894 in Lennep , today Remscheid , † August 27, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German poet , novelist , playwright and screenwriter.

Life

Curt Corrinth was born the son of a general manager. He began studying law in Paris and Marburg, as well as literature and art history in Bonn, but was drafted into military service in 1915. Until 1917 he was deployed on the Russian and French fronts. The impressions there made him a decided opponent of the war. During the war he published two volumes of poetry.

After the war, Corrinth moved to Berlin, where he worked as an employee and later editor-in-chief of expressionist magazines. During this time he wrote dramas and in 1928 became a freelance writer. His anti-Semitic drama Trojaner caused a sensation in 1929, so that the National Socialists banned his works in 1933. The rulers took him into protective custody for a year before he was allowed to work again as an author, editor and dramaturge in 1934. His detective novel Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher , published by Deutscher Verlag in 1941 , was filmed in 1943 by Paul May with Annelies Reinhold , Rudolf Prack , Oskar Sima and Viktoria von Ballasko based on a screenplay by Ernst von Salomon .

In 1945, the Bergisch citizen opened a bookshop in Leichlingen . In 1955 he moved to the GDR and spent the rest of his life in East Berlin.

Works

Dramas and plays:

Trojans
Section Rahnstätten
The King of Trinador
The desecration of the dead
The great impostor game

Script:

Incident in Benderath , based on his play Trojaner (screenplay)

Novels:

resurrection
Potsdamer Platz or the nights of the new Messiah - ecstatic visions . G. Müller, Munich 1919. Republication of the special edition limited to 500 copies with ten lithographs by Paul Klee from 1919, WALDE + GRAF publishing agency, Berlin 2016, approved special edition for Frölich & Kaufmann Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9453-3012 -8th
Drive - a novel. G. Müller, Munich 1919.
Brothel, an infernal novel in 5 leaps. Jatho Verlag, Berlin 1920.
The faithful of Berneburg
Mo Marova
The thing with Päker , youth book based on the play Trojaner , Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1956
The uncanny change of Alex Roscher , Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1941

Web links

Commons : Curt Corrinth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two time pieces in the Berlin Volksbühne . In: Deutsche Volkszeitung, April 9, 1929: brief synopsis of Trojans .
personal data
SURNAME Corrinth, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet , novelist , playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep, today Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1960
Place of death Berlin