Eckart from Naso

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Eckart Hermann Dietrich Friedrich Carl Deodat von Naso , actually called Hartwig von Naso (born June 2, 1888 in Darmstadt , † November 13, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer , writer and dramaturge .

family

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Ludwig Hartwig called von Naso (1842-1897) and his first wife Marie, née von Hülsen (1850-1892). His grandfather Karl Gustav Hartwig was at the time of Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Naso († 1844), Last of his family, adopted , and on 29 October 1828 in the Prussian nobility called leadership called Naso Hartwig applicable Service.

Naso married his first wife, on 13 January 1917 in Wroclaw Ursula of Witzendorff (born October 12, 1895 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † April 26, 1945 in Berlin-Grunewald ), the daughter of the Prussian Colonel Hans von Witzendorff-Rehdiger, Laird to Striese and others, and Margarethe von Brand (Haus Lauchstädt ). From this marriage come the son Roger (born October 4, 1919, † December 20, 1998) and the daughter Gisela, a dancer who was married from 1939 to 1942 to the actor and director Volker von Collande (1913–1990). In his second marriage, Naso married on July 8, 1948 in Frankfurt am Main, Dr. med. Brigitte Schmidt (born January 13, 1920 in Breslau), the daughter of the lawyer and notary Dr. jur. Herbert Schmidt and Katharina Schildbach.

Life

Naso finished his school days in Breslau and Cologne in 1907 with the Abitur exam in Breslau. He studied law in Göttingen , Kiel and Halle (Saale) . From 1907 he was a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen .

In 1912 he became a trainee lawyer in Breslau and Dr. iur. In September 1912 he was a trainee lawyer in Nimptsch in Silesia and then spent his year in the Hussar Regiment "von Schill" (1st Silesian) No. 4 of the Prussian Army in Ohlau .

Naso spent the years 1913 and 1914 in Berlin without a permanent job and submitted his written doctoral thesis. He took part in the First World War for six months as an orderly officer , then as an infantryman until he was wounded with a subsequent stay in a hospital in Stuttgart.

From 1916 to November 1918 he worked as an artistic secretary and director under his uncle Count Hülsen-Haesler, then as a dramaturge at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus under Albert Patry and Reinhard Bruck until 1919, then under Leopold Jessner until 1930. Naso worked in 1930/31 continued as a dramaturge, but moved to the State Opera on Königsplatz (Krolloper) under Otto Klemperer .

From 1931 to 1945 he was again the dramaturge of the State Drama, among others under Gustaf Gründgens . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 . In October of the same year he, along with 87 other writers, made a vow of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler .

Until 1946 he was an officer in American and later British captivity. After his release he lived as a freelance writer in Ostholstein , then in Frankfurt am Main. For six months, Naso was chief dramaturge at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt under Harry Buckwitz , and from 1954 to 1957 under Walter Erich Schäfer chief dramaturge at the Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart . In 1953 his work Der Rittmeister (1943) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .

Naso spent the following years as a freelance writer in Munich and Frankfurt, where he died in 1976.

Works

  • 1918: Die Insel (play, world premiere in Gotha)
  • 1921: The woman in the garden (play, world premiere in Recklinghausen)
  • 1926: The chronicle of the poisoner (= Marquise de Brinvilliers ; novel)
  • 1930: people under glass (novel)
  • 1932: Seydlitz (biographical novel).
    • 1956 new edition with the title: Seydlitz, novel of a rider . Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Hamburg and as Ullstein Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin.
  • 1935: Scharffenberg (novel)
  • 1936: The Encounter (Novella)
  • 1937: Moltke, Mensch und Feldherr (biographical novel)
  • 1938: Script for Effi Briest
  • 1939: Prussian legend (novella)
    • 1991: New edition with additions: The encounter u. a., Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, ISBN 3-548-22613-2 .
  • 1941: Script for Friedemann Bach
  • 1943: The Rittmeister (novella)
  • 1944: Kunersdorf (radio play)
  • 1949: The demigod (novel)
  • 1950: The Great Lover (novel)
  • 1952: Tensions (Historical Studies)
  • 1953: I love life (memories from five decades)
  • 1957: Heinrich Schlusnus, person and singer (biography)
  • 1959: love was his destiny (novel about Ovid)
  • 1960: Wings of Eros (novel)
  • 1962: a charming person (novel)
  • 1963: lucky enough (second part of I love life )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Roger of Naso . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1955 ( online ).
  2. ^ W. von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006. (No. 602). Düsseldorf 2006.
  3. ^ A b 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. 428.
  4. polunbi.de