Fritz Ernst Bettauer

Fritz Ernst Bettauer , pseudonym: Fritz Ernst (born June 23, 1887 in Breslau ; † April 17, 1952 in Berlin ), was a German storyteller , playwright and radio pioneer.

Life

Fritz Ernst Bettauer grew up in Breslau and learned the profession of pharmacist . As a young man he joined the Wroclaw Poetry School . In 1913 he wrote a historical novel and - together with Carl Biberfeld - a festival commemorating the Wars of Liberation . In the same year he became press officer for the Breslau Centenary Exhibition and in 1922 for the Gerhart Hauptmann Festival.

In 1919 he presented an anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the Lobe Theater.

Fritz Ernst Bettauer dealt early on with the dramaturgical possibilities of broadcasting , which in his opinion had a duty to honor literary authors appropriately. At the age of 37, he and Edmund Nick became the artistic director of the Silesian Radio Lesson . During this time he worked extensively as a radio play director and speaker . In September 1925 he resigned because of disputes over the design of the program with the executive board of the supervisory board, Alexander Vogt. His successor was Friedrich Bischoff . From then on, Bettauer worked as a radio critic, for example in a radio yearbook he founded and various program magazines. In 1926 he called for the introduction of broadcast directors .

Bettauer was until 1933 chairman of the Silesia district of the Association of German Writers . According to the list of harmful and undesirable literature dated December 31, 1938, all of his writings were banned during the Nazi era .

After the Second World War, he became managing director of the Central Office of Authors and Publishers, which was operated jointly by authors and publishers in order to collect outstanding royalties.

Works

• The people arise! Novel from the wars of freedom. Heege, Schweidnitz 1913
• (with Carl Biberfeld) Seven against one. Festival, Breslau 1913
• (with Richard Gorter) Fifty years of acting in Breslau. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Lobe and Thaliatheater. Püffel & Danigel, Breslau 1919
• The creation of the Gerhart Hauptmann Festival. In: Breslauer Theater-Woche vol. 2, No. 28 v. August 14, 1922, pp. 7-10
• Broadcasting directors. In: The broadcast. Rundfunkwoche vol. 2 (1926), no. 14, p. 7
• Paths and aberrations of the microphone. In: Funk. Die Wochenschrift des Funkwesens Vol. 4 (1927), pp. 265–266
• German radio at a crossroads. In: Rundfunk-Rundschau. Organ of the Reich Association of Radio Listeners e. V. Born 1929, No. 9 v. March 3, p. 2; No. 13 v. March 31, p. 2; No. 14 v. April 7, p. 2; No. 15 v. April 14, p. 2; No. 16 v. April 21, p. 2
• (with Georg Lichey) The underground. A piece of contemporary theater in six pictures. Verlag Friede durch Recht, Schweidnitz 1930
• (Ed.) Silesian radio calendar. A yearbook of the Silesian radio listeners vol. 1–3 (1927–1930), Breslau
• (with Georg Lichey) The camarilla. A piece of German fate in ten pictures. Chronicle of Humanity Publishing House, Schweidnitz 1932
• Small jog the prototype builder in pictures of his time. Atlantis Publishing House. Zurich, Berlin 1935
• The tribune of the people. Play in five acts. United Theater and Music Publishers, Bad Kissingen 1947
• Small memorial stone. Novella. Pinguin-Verlag, Berlin 1947
• Practical self-help. In: Telegraf Vol. 2, No. 276 v. November 26, 1947, p. 5
• (with Giambattista Basile , Charles Perrault , Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm ) Sleeping Beauty in three languages. Huber, Bern 1949
• (with Paul Rainer and Alfred Strasser) Robert and Bertram. Folk play in eight pictures. Using motifs from the farce of the same name by Gustavräder. Publisher Henschel and Son, Berlin 1952

literature

• German Stage Yearbook 1953
• Theater history year and address book. Vol. 61, p. 81.
• Karin Oehlenschläger: Fritz Ernst Bettauer. Master's thesis, Mainz 1986

Web link

• Literature by and about Fritz Ernst Bettauer in the catalog of the German National Library