Ernst Schoen (composer)

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Ernst Schoen (born April 14, 1894 in Charlottenburg , † December 10, 1960 in West Berlin ) was a German composer, writer, translator and radio pioneer.

Life

Schoen grew up in a middle-class Berlin family. He received piano training at an early age. a. with Ferruccio Busoni , and received composition lessons from Edgar Varèse , who taught him the basics of harmony and Schönberg's twelve-tone music. Influenced by Busoni's theses on the New Aesthetics of Music , he was very interested in the radio medium . Schoen then became the first program assistant at Südwestdeutschen Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG), the first broadcasting company in Frankfurt am Main , which began operations in 1924 and was headed by Hans Flesch . In 1924 Schoen composed electronic music for Hans Flesch's radio play Zauberei auf dem Sender ; In 1929 he became his successor at Radio Frankfurt.

Schoen ensured the survival of his childhood friend Walter Benjamin , with whom he was in correspondence, with commissioned work. As early as 1925, after Benjamin failed with his habilitation, Schoen had offered him to work for the station's program guide, but Benjamin had other plans. Later he gave Benjamin the opportunity to realize the radio play Radau um Kasperl (1932), for which Schoen wrote the music. He also promoted the musical and literary avant-garde on the Frankfurt broadcaster by trying out new forms of literature and music programs with Bertolt Brecht , Hanns Eisler and Anton von Webern .

The National Socialists fired him in 1933 because he had sponsored “Jewish and socialist colleagues”. After two protective custody , Schoen emigrated to London, where he tried to continue his job with the BBC and dealt with everyday exile in essays and poetry. In 1947 Ernst Schoen undertook a trip through Germany on behalf of the BBC. After his return to West Berlin in 1952, he was unable to gain a foothold professionally. In December 1960 Ernst Schoen died in the Martin Luther Hospital in Berlin-Schmargendorf, unnoticed by the public and the radio.

Theodor W. Adorno wrote about Ernst Schoen and his importance for Benjamin in 1966: "The indescribable refinement and sensitivity of Schoen must have affected him to the core [...]".

Fonts

Translations

  • Alain-Fournier : youth portrait. Letters. (Selection and translation: Ernst Schoen). Berlin & Frankfurt / M .: Suhrkamp [1954].
  • Eduardo De Filippo : Lies have long legs . Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1956. (Not for sale stage manuscript), DNB 573942102
  • The legend of Monte del Diablo

Writing work

  • Jazz and art music. In: Melos , 1927, p. 512 f.
  • Broadcast Opera in Germany . In: BBC Year Book 1934 , pp. 67-71
  • Thomas Mann spoke in London . In: Structure 11/1947
  • Ulf Rathje (Ed.): Nachlass Ernst Schoen: (1894–1960) 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b broadcasts: Medial contours between message and distant view , edited by Wladimir Velminski , 2015, p. 41
  2. ^ (K) an end of art: Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Society , edited by Brigitte Marschall, Christian Schulte, Sara Vorwalder, Florian Wagner.
  3. ↑ Benjamin wrote: The thing is that Ernst Schoen has had an important position here as manager of the Frankfurter Rundfunk program for months and has stood up for me . Quoted from Burkhardt Lindner: Benjamin-Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Effect 2006, page 408.
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Peter Steinbach: Return to the Foreign? . Working group of independent cultural institutes (Germany) Vistas, 2000
  5. ↑ Letters to Bertolt Brecht in Exile (1933–1949) edited by Hermann Haarmann, Christoph Hesse, 2014, p. 378.
  6. ↑ Portrait at Phonostar
  7. ↑ Portrait at WDR ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  8. ^ August Soppe: Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main, 1923–1926: on the organizational, program and reception history of a new medium K. G. Saur, 1993, p. 186.
  9. ↑ Schiller National Museum and German Literature Archive : Marbacher Magazin , issues 52–55, 1990.
  10. ↑ Helga Eßmann: Translated literature in German-language anthologies, Volume 3. Anthologies with poems from the British Isles and the USA . Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2000. ISBN 3-7772-0002-6
personal data
SURNAME Nice, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio pioneer, composer, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1960
Place of death West Berlin