Friedrich Forster

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Friedrich Forster (also Friedrich Forster-Burggraf , pseudonym of Waldfried Burggraf ; born August 11, 1895 in Bremen , † March 1, 1958 in Bremen) was a German writer , screenwriter , actor and dramaturge .

biography

Forster attended the Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal in Thuringia and the old grammar school in Bremen . He initially worked as an actor, dramaturge and director on several southern German theaters. He was from 1913 to 1917 at the Court Theater in Meiningen and 1933-1938 Acting Director of the Bavarian State Theater and Director of the Bavarian State Theater Munich in Munich . He was also a literary advisor to UFA .

After his acting days he settled in Schlehdorf and devoted himself only to dramatic poetry. He wrote dramatic plays with historical and contemporary themes as well as fairy tale games, comedies and stories. He later returned to Bremen.

His best-known work is the play Robinson Shall Not Die (1932). This play, which Gerhart Hauptmann prophesied immortality, saw many thousands of performances. The novel of the same name, dedicated to Gerhart Hauptmann (1942), was filmed in 1957 under the title Robinson shall not die .

National Socialism

With the politically heroic leader drama "All against One, One for All", Forster wrote a professionally calculated piece of propaganda for National Socialism in 1933 , in which, against the historical background of the national Swedish uprising under Gustav Wasa in 1523, the 1923 Hitler putsch took place was brought. The piece was played over 300 times. The premiere took place on February 21, 1934 in the Theater des Volkes Berlin, sponsored by the Nazi group Kraft durch Freude . The manuscript was given to the city of Munich, the soon to be “capital of the movement”.

The play "Der Sieger", premiered in 1934, represented the Saxons' struggle for freedom under Widukind . The opponent was Charlemagne . Here, not only Germanism and Christianity, but primarily two political perspectives fought for sovereignty. While Alfred Rosenberg pleaded for Widukind, Adolf Hitler stopped the debate. He saw in Charlemagne the representative of the imperial idea , which had priority for him. In future, all Widukind pieces were dropped.

Honors

  • The Friedrich-Forster-Weg in Bremen- Oberneuland was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Der Graue , 1917, school drama (Prize of the Volkstheater Wien)
  • Mammon , drama, 1918
  • Madelaine and her Page Hyazint , 1919 Eigenbrödler Verlag
  • Princess Turandot , drama, 1923 (based on a play by Carlo Gozzi )
  • Robinson shouldn't die! , Drama, 1932
  • Wendelin , 1932
  • Sailors in Würzburg , novella, 1932
  • All against one, one for all , drama, 1933
  • The winner , drama, 1934
  • The women of Redditz , comedy, 1934
  • The Prodigal , Drama, 1939
  • Guest performance in Copenhagen , 1940
  • Ariela , 1941
  • Robinson shouldn't die , novella, 1942
  • The Lovers , Drama, 1945
  • The stoned , drama, 1946
  • Candide , Drama, 1948
  • Ariel and the Sisters , drama, 1949
  • Bergkristall , Drama, 1954 (based on Adalbert Stifter 's story of the same name )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berlin Chronicle
  2. ↑ The Stadttheater Lübeck not only played the top plays Robinson shall not die (in Lübeck 1933) and All against One, One for All (in Lübeck 1933/34), but also Die Weiber von Redditz (in Lübeck 1936/37) and the aforementioned Play Der Sieger (in Lübeck 1934/35), furthermore the fairy tale game Der Puss in Boots (in Lübeck 1941/42 and again in 1942/43). See Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The Lübeck City Theater during the Nazi dictatorship . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 565, 235f.
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burggraf, Waldfried (real name); Forster-Burggraf, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, actor and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1958
Place of death Bremen