Eduard Bass

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Eduard Bass

Eduard Bass , bourgeois Eduard Schmidt (born January 1, 1888 in Prague ; † October 2, 1946 ibid) was a Czech writer , journalist , singer , actor , reciter , lecturer and lyricist. He owes his stage name to his singing voice .

Life

Bass comes from a German-Bohemian family that belonged to the Czech nation. He first attended the Prague Commercial Academy and then the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, before working as a sales representative for his father's brush-making shop for 10 years. In 1905/06 he worked in Munich, where he got to know cabaret. When he returned to Prague, he appeared as a reciter and singer in the cabaret White Swan (Bílá labuť) in Prague from 1910 . He was a co-founder of the cabaret Die Rote Sieben (Červená sedma). During this time the long-term work with the Czech theater director, cabaret artist and actor Emil Artur Longen began . At the same time he worked for satirical magazines and was editor of the leaflets together with other cartoonists .

From 1921 to 1942 he was a columnist , reporter , court reporter and theater critic . He wrote cabaret texts for Edition Syrinx . Bass was also the editor of the satirical magazine Galgen (Šibeničky). He later became director of the Prague cabarets Black Seven and Rococo .

From 1920 to 1933 he worked as an editor of the "Volkszeitung" ( Lidové noviny ). From 1933 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In this function he worked until 1942. Bass was a staunch supporter of the new democratic Czechoslovak state . When the Jewish employees had to leave the newspaper from 1939 onwards, Bass did not agree, but did not fight it, but on the other hand did not give up in his function either. In his novel, Circus Humberto , the will of Czech self-assertion and the praise of the hard work and perseverance of the “little Czech man” who rose from bricklayer to circus director was expressed. In the second half of the 1920s, Bass was a participant in the meetings of the informal regulars' group Prague intellectual Pátečníci .

In addition to numerous books, he wrote stories that were only published as compilations after his death. He also sang a few chansons, played in skits and couplets. Some became folk plays.

Works

His feuilletons, anecdotes, humoresques and satires draw their material mainly from the Prague art scene, his reports and grotesques also from sports.

  • Fanynka a jiné humoresky , 1917, film version : Czechoslovakia 1987 (TV, director: Jaroslav Dudek)
  • Jak se dělá kabaret? , 1917
  • Náhrdelník : Detektivní komedie o jednom aktu, 1917
  • Letáky, 1917-19 , 1920
  • Případ v čísle 128 a jiné historky , 1921
  • Klapzubova jedáctka , 1922 (German Klapperzahns Wunderelf , 1935, new edition Wuppertal 2007), film adaptation: Czechoslovakia 1938 (director: Ladislav Brom), Czechoslovakia 1967 (TV, director: Eduard Hofman)
  • To Arbes nenapsal, Vrchlický nezbásnil , literary parodies 1930
  • Umělci, mecenáši a jiná čeládka , 1930
  • Šest děvčat Williamsonových
  • Potulky pražského reportéra
  • Holandský deníček , 1930
  • Divoký život Alexandra Staviského , 1934
  • Čtení o roce osmačtyřicátém , 1940
  • Potulky starou Prahou - vycházelo v letech 1921 - 1941 , (German strolling through old Prague)
  • Cirk Umberto , Roman 1941 (German Circus Humberto, 1951), film version: Czechoslovakia 1988 (TV series, director: Frantisek Filip)
  • Lidé v Maringotkách - Též Lidé z maringotek , 1942 (German The Comedian Wagon , 1958), film adaptation: Czechoslovakia 1966 (director: Martin Frič)
  • Kázáníčka , 1946
  • The fairytale ship (German 1959)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Stefan Zwicker , epilogue to Klapperzahn's Wunderelf , Eduard Bass, Arco Verlag , 2007, 2nd edition 2008, p. 133 ff.
  2. ↑ Václav Stehlík: Stari Friday Men Novodobí a Zpátečníci! , online at: vasevec.parlamentnilisty.cz / ...
personal data
SURNAME Bass, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Eduard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, journalist, singer, actor, reciter, emcee and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1946
Place of death Prague