Eduard Sturm (set designer)

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Eduard Sturm (born June 29, 1885 in Hagen , † July 10, 1952 in Munich ) was a German set designer.

Sturm initially received training in his father's decoration business in Hagen. His contact with the Folkwang Museum in Hagen under Karl Ernst Osthaus was decisive for his artistic development . From 1902 he was a student in the architecture class at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts under Peter Behrens . From 1909 to 1913 and from 1924 to 1932 Eduard Sturm was artistic advisor at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf under Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann . From 1909 onwards, Sturm shaped the stage design of the Düsseldorf theater. In 1911, commissioned by Louise Dumont in 1911 planned a high-quality natural theater in Benrath Palace Park with modern impulses from the stage design. The project did not materialize, and Sturm left Düsseldorf frustrated. In 1919 Sturm was one of the founders of the artists' association Das Junge Rheinland . He was a member of their board of directors. In 1932 Sturm was brought to the Münchner Kammerspiele by Otto Falckenberg , where he created several highly acclaimed stage facilities until 1946 - in addition to guest engagements in Frankfurt am Main , Berlin and Prague . After Falckenberg's death in 1947, he was no longer able to gain a foothold in Munich. Only a few theaters in Bonn , Nuremberg and Stuttgart invited him as guests to equip them.

literature

  • German theater exhibition Magdeburg 1927. Official catalog . Magdeburg, 1927, p. 200, No. 738-770.
  • Walter René Fuerst, Samuel J. Hume: XXth Century Stage Decoration. London, 1928, vol. 1, p. 101 and text fig. 23, 162; Vol. 2, figs. 133, 190, 347, 348.
  • Freihochschulbund Düsseldorf (Ed.): The Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. A quarter of a century of German stage art. Düsseldorf 1930, pp. 77, 79, 121-126.
  • The German stage design. Berlin 1937, p. 46, No. 699-706.
  • German stage yearbook. Berlin, 61st year, 1953, p. 86.
  • Kurt Loup (Ed.): The festive house. The Dumont-Lindemann theater in Düsseldorf. Mirror and expression of time. Cologne u. 1955, picture part.
  • Ottmar Schuberth: The stage design. History, shape, technology. Munich 1955, pp. 100, 109, 116, 224, 238, 241.
  • Manfred Linke: Gustav Lindemann. Directed at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. Düsseldorf 1969, pp. 246, 248-250, 264, 266, 271-273, 274-278.
  • Dusseldorf. A big city on the way to the modern age. (= The West German impulse 1900–1914. Art and environmental design in the industrial area. ) Düsseldorf 1984, p. 244.
  • Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (Ed.): From Barlach to Viegener. The art collection of the poet Hans Franck. Schwerin o. J. (1998), p. 152.
  • Nora Eckert: The stage design in the 20th century. Berlin 1998, pp. 48, 116, 137.
  • Sabine Herder: Eduard Sturm. In: Century of Drama. From the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. Düsseldorf 2006, pp. 42-43.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Places of Utopia: Eduard Sturm , website accessed on March 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1952
Place of death Munich