Franz Ulbrich

Franz Ulbrich (born January 22, 1885 in Bärenstein (Erzgebirge) , † December 6, 1950 in Kassel ) was a German director and general manager .

Life

As the son of a doctor, Franz Ulbrich attended grammar school in Dresden . He then studied German, cultural history and philosophy in Munich and Leipzig . From 1911 Ulbrich worked as a dramaturge and director at the Hoftheater Oldenburg . From 1915 to 1925 he worked at the Meininger Hoftheater as a dramaturge and director of entertainment. In 1919 he was appointed director of the theater. In the same year he married the actress Johanna Karoline Authes.

On September 28, 1919, he founded the Meiningen Academy of Dramatic Art , following on from the great tradition of the house in the education and training of young actors by the Baroness von Heldburg , the wife of "Theater Duke" Georg II. He also called the Literary Society in Meiningen into life.

After the dissolution of the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen and the connection to the newly founded state of Thuringia in 1920, he transferred the Meiningen court theater and the Meiningen court orchestra to state sovereignty. The theater and the chapel were henceforth called the Landestheater and Landeskapelle .

Ulbrich was a great supporter of the expressionist theater that developed after the imperial era . He brought well-known and leading writers and dramaturges to Meiningen and turned the theater into a German center of Expressionism . Numerous world premieres took place. The authors included Georg Kaiser and Anton Wildgans . He later directed Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Meiningen .

In 1925, Franz Ulbrich was appointed general manager at the National Theater Weimar , where he worked until 1933. At the same time he was general director of the regional theaters in Altenburg , Gotha , Meiningen and Sondershausen . In 1932 he staged Mussolini's anti-democratic play Hundert Tage in Weimar , which premiered in the presence of Adolf Hitler . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became director of the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin in March 1933 , where he premiered Hanns Johst's play Schlageter on the occasion of Hitler's birthday . In 1935 Ulbrich finally went to the Staatstheater Kassel as general director , which he directed until 1945. From 1945 he was head of the Kassel Chamber Studio. From 1949 to 1950 he was chairman of the Goethe Society in Kassel, which he himself founded .

literature

German Biographical Archive , Fiche: II 1326,421-424
Stadtlexikon Meiningen , Bielsteinverlag Meiningen, 2008. ISBN 9783980950442

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 624.

personal data
SURNAME	Ulbrich, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bear stone
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1950
Place of death	kassel

[Klee624-1] Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 624.