Frederic Mellinger
Frederic Mellinger (born November 15, 1890 in Berlin , † August 29, 1970 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German and American theater director and theater critic.
biography
In 1919 Mellinger co-founded the Berlin Theater Tribüne with Karlheinz Martin , which existed between 1919 and 2011. The grandstand was founded as a left-wing, political-expressionist experimental theater. In 1921 he founded the Munich Schaubühne together with Eugen Felber and worked from 1927 to 1933 as an assistant at Propylaen Verlag in Berlin. He wrote essays like The Seducer and Gernegross . After the write prohibition by the Reich Chamber of Culture of the Nazis emigrated Mellinger in 1933 initially to London and in 1936 in the United States after Los Angeles and became an American citizen. He got by with various jobs, including in 1942 as a night porter in Arizona . In the USA he played small roles in several films and around 1950 also in Germany. He also earned a little from his astrological readings. Around 1942 he had contacts in New York with the German occultist Karl Germer and his sect Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and he was appointed to the advisory board of the order in 1947 and in 1951 during a stay in the USA to become Master of the Temple .
After the Second World War, he returned to Germany in 1946 as the American “supervising officer for theaters” for Bremen and Berlin. He was a sponsor in the reconstruction of the theater in Bremen . In 1948 he staged the play Our Little City by Thornton Wilder in Bremen with a very economical stage set, which was received with reserve by the audience. He wrote the unsuccessful piece Satanic Symphony and was "hissed out" by the Bremen audience for it. In 1949 he went to Berlin, where he also staged Die kleine Stadt in the Renaissance theater and successfully produced Thomas Job's Uncle Harry . In the 1950s he worked at theaters in Berlin, Bremen and the Ruhr area and wrote numerous articles for newspapers such as Theater der Zeit .
swell
- Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945–1969. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .
- Peter-R. Koenig: Ordo Templi Orientis : Gnosis on Stage Friedrich Mellinger .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mellinger, Frederic |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mellinger, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1970 |
| Place of death | Bad Wiessee |