Friedrich Rosenthal (director)

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Friedrich Rosenthal (born Jaques Rosenthal on July 20, 1885 in Vienna ; died after August 21, 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian director and dramaturge .

life and work

Rosenthal was a theater historian, dramaturge and director. He worked for both the theater and the silent film.

He was born the son of a businessman in Vienna and studied from 1902 to 1904 at the Technical University of Vienna , then until 1910 philosophy at the University of Vienna . At the same time he attended drama school at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He continued his studies in Heidelberg, at the same time he is said to have been employed as an actor and dramaturge at the Grand Ducal Court and National Theater in Mannheim from 1910 to 1912 . From 1913 to 1929 he worked as a dramaturge and director at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. There he mainly staged Grillparzer's dramas , German classics and folk plays.

In 1920 Rosenthal founded the first state touring theater in Austria on behalf of the Ministry of Education. On the one hand, he realized an idea of ​​the architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933), on the other hand, the demand for a third stage , played by the castle and opera , “to enable workers, civil servants and the so-called middle class to attend the performances without having to constantly to have to pay rising admission prices. "

From 1927 to 1931 he had a teaching position for the history of stage art at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. From 1932 he was engaged as a dramaturge, artistic secretary and director at the Burgtheater . There he directed 26 new productions. Immediately after the annexation of Austria , he was - like the actors Fritz Blum , Fritz Strassny , Hans Wengraf and their colleague Lilly Karoly - "on leave". With effect from April 30, 1938, his remuneration was also discontinued. He went to the Volkstheater and was removed there by the National Socialists. He then fled to France, where he was arrested by the Gestapo after the German troops marched in , and finally deported to Auschwitz and murdered.

Rosenthal married on June 20, 1920 with the dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890-1959), who was able to flee to Colombia with some of her students in time and who later settled in Australia, where she also died. She survived the time of National Socialism.

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  1. ↑ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8B2H-BJ9?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D6H% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344443701: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register K 1885-1886> image 78 of 299; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Austria.
  2. ↑ AEIOU names July 20, 1885 as the date of birth, the lexicon of German-Jewish authors, on the other hand, July 21.
  3. ↑ a b Oliver Rathkolb : Myth of the Burgtheater. In: What theater do we dream of? ( Memento of the original from March 26, 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. , Anniversary congress on the occasion of 125 years of Haus am Ring 1888–2013, Burgtheater Vienna, October 11-13, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgtheater.at
  4. ^ Entry on Friedrich Rosenthal (director) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenthal, Jacques (real name, DNB)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after August 21, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp