Felix Emmel

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Felix Emmel around 1959/60
Emmel as Lysimachos on October 24, 1911

Felix Emmel (born April 5, 1888 in Berlin , † June 5, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a versatile German writer, educator, philosopher, playwright and critic.

Life

In Berlin he attended high school and the Marie-Seebach School of the Royal Theater . After studying especially the German in Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich, he was on 8 January 1912, the thesis Wundt's position to the religious problem at the University of Würzburg with Professor Remigius Stölzle to Dr. phil. PhD. In Greifswald he passed the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools. In the First World War he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross. From 1920 he was active in the Association of Resolute School Reformers , for which he worked out a draft program with Franz Hilker .

From 1920 to 1924 he was a theater critic for the magazine Preussische Jahrbücher . He owes his much-discussed book The Ecstatic Theater , published in 1924 , to which Louise Dumont contributed an epilogue ( original language ), on the basis of which she appointed him as senior theater director and director at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . Emmel laments the sign of Cain from this time ...: dissolution , also of the inner man , through the presumptuous rule of the intellect over all areas of the soul . Man is inexorably falling apart. Soul emanates. Europe is feverish. To counter this, the new cultic theater , a stage of culture full of theatrical spell power . After world war , revolution and post-war chaos, one was out of the times of empty stagnation and not only finally had a fate over them again, but people now had an inkling of what tragedy was ... The degeneration of the theater and the dissolution of the drama .. . have lost their horror ... However, we know one thing: the new theater will have to escape the spell of the autocratic, all-destroying intellect if it wants to live. But that is only possible through an inexorable expulsion of psychology, whose scientific and intellectual yoke weighs heavily on all stage design. This book therefore fights against the theater of psychological appearances. It wants to give the stage arts a new supra-intellectual basis: the ecstasy of the blood.

From 1926 to 1930 Emmel was a teacher at the Mary Wigman School in Dresden, and from 1929 to 1931 he was the editor in charge of Die Tanz-Gemeinschaft - a quarterly journal for dance culture . For Margherita Wallmann's dancer collective , he created two great dance drama drama: Orpheus Dionysos 1930 and The Last Judgment , which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1931 .

Until 1933 he was a member of the PEN club . In his writing Theater aus deutschem Wesen from 1937, Emmel advocated a “representative theater” and thus adapted himself to the contemporary National Socialist aesthetic.

At the end of the Second World War he became director of the Falk Realgymnasium in Berlin and u. a. Teacher to the later physicist Bernhard Mühlschlegel (1925–2007). After that he lived in Göttingen. In addition to his literary work, he taught at the local pedagogical college and gave acting lessons. Heinz Bennent was one of his students .

He was with Franziska geb. Basler (1894–1971) married and had two children with her: Olaf (1912–1997) and Hilde (1914–2009).

Works

  • Wundt's position on the religious problem. A contribution to the philosophy of religion of the present. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1912 (studies on philosophy and religion, edited by Dr. R. Stölzle, eighth issue)
  • Women, Wiecker Bote | 1913 | 1st year | 1st issue
  • Men, Wiecker Bote | 1913 | 1st year | 2nd issue
  • Freedom, Wiecker Bote | 1914 | 2nd year | 8/9 notebook
  • The death of the west: against Oswald Spengler's skeptical philosophy. Berlin: Engelmann, 1919
  • Art education. In: Creative Education. Lectures held at the free Reichsschulkonferenz of the federal government of resolute school reformers in the mansion in Berlin from March 31 to March 2. April 1920 / ed. by Paul Oestreich . Berlin-Fichtenau, Publishing Society and Education 1920, p. 93 ff.
  • Eros as a carrier of ethos, in: Kurt Hiller (ed.): DAS ZIEL. Yearbooks for Intellectual Politics, Volume IV, Munich 1920
  • A new lyric poet. Hermann Kasack: Man. Verses and poems in the anthologies "Die Dichtung", Prussian Yearbooks 181, 1920, pp. 128–130
  • Friendships. In: Max Epstein (Hrsg.): The book of education 2. Education in school age after elementary school . Karlsruhe G. Braun 1922, p. 436 ff. (Table of contents d-nb.info/579358321/04)
  • Count Keyserling's problem: against the spirit of world superiority. Berlin: Stilke, 1922
  • The ecstatic theater. With an afterword by Louise Dumont . Prien, Kampmann & Schnabel 1924 - Contents: Source of the Dramatic / Ecstatic Direction / Ecstatic Drama / The Stage Design / Critique of Blood / Lively Shakespeare / The German Drama on the Stage (Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Hebbel, Kleist, Grabbe) / Hauptmann style / Wedekind stage / Strindberg vision / French drama / Jewish theater / Old and new Russian acting / The theater of the living (Edschmid, Scholz, Kaiser, Toller, Brecht, Hofmannsthal, Schmidtbonn, von der Goltz, O'Neill , Werfel, Tagore)
  • The German face of Conrad Ferdinand, in: Prussian year books. September 1925. Volume 201. Issue 3. Berlin, Georg Stilke, 1925. pp. 237–356
  • On the essence of Conrad Ferdinand Meyers. In: Form and Sense. Journal of Art and Spiritual Life 1 (1925) pp. 77–79.
  • Acting as a profession, in: Zeitschrift für Menschenkunde. Sheets for characterology and applied psychology. 2nd year, issue 2.Niels Kampmann Verlag Celle 1926.
  • Film and people. A memorandum to the Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Film Industry. Reprint in Prussian yearbooks; Vol. 208, 2/1927, pp. 164-188.
  • The latest dramatic poetry, in: Germany. Past and present. Guidelines and goals of German reconstruction. Edited with the participation of the Reich authorities and economic associations. Berlin German National Publishing House (1927)
  • The contemporary dance. In: The National Theater. Vol. 1. 1928/29, no. 3, pp. 68-70. (Collective review; Petermann 20217)
  • "Tanzerische realization", Tanzgemeinschaft 2 (1930), special issue on Mary Wigman, 2-4 (p. 4)
  • Orpheus Dionysus. Berlin Merkur-Buchhandlg Dr. E. Staritz & Co., 1930
  • Orpheus Dionysus. Dance-dramatic plot in four acts. Dance drama in four parts. From ... Felix Emmel. Piano reduction with text. German version by Ted ... from Gluck's "Orfeo," by Anton MeÌchanik. 54 pages Publisher: CF Peters (1931)
  • The Last Judgement. Berlin Merkur-Buchh., [1931]
  • The raging landscape. Orient trip. (Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt). Berlin, Vlg. D. Merkur-Buchh., (1930)
  • German theater. The German actors! Berlin, Georg Stilke, 1937
  • Heinz Hilpert and his work, in: Ruperto-Carola. Announcements from the Association of Friends of the Student Union of Heidelberg University e. V., Heidelberg born 12. 1960, volume 27.
  • Bertelsmann actor leader. From Aeschylus to Ionesco. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1st edition June 1960 (as rororo paperback 1972; ISBN 3-499-16039-0 )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaetano Biccari: Refuge of the Spirit? Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2001, 234
personal data
SURNAME Emmel, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, educator, philosopher, playwright and critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1960
Place of death Goettingen