Fritz Friedmann-Frederich

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Fritz Friedmann-Frederich (born March 13, 1883 in Berlin , † March 16, 1934 in Prague ) was a German playwright , screenwriter , librettist , director and theater director . His comedies were played a lot during his lifetime, but were banned when the National Socialists came to power in 1933.

Life

Friedmann-Frederich's father Heinrich was the director of the Königsstadt brewery . Fritz Friedmann-Frederich attended the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium in Berlin and then studied in Berlin and Zurich . After graduating as Dr. phil. he became a director at the Berlin Schillertheater ; here he also celebrated his first successes with comedies . At the age of 15 he had already written his first play, which was performed four years later at the Thalia Theater . Between 1911 and 1915 he worked as a dramaturge for the Eduard Bloch theater publisher in Berlin. He then worked as a senior director at the Kleiner Theater Berlin for four years . In 1919 he became artistic director and senior director of the Metropol Theater , which he took over as director in 1928. At the same time he took over the small theater as a comedy theater.

Friedmann-Frederich's great and international successes include forgotten pieces such as Familienkind , Mein Vetter Eduard , Club People and Der Dickkopf . As a director he was known for his collaboration with contemporary stars such as Claire Dux , Fritzi Massary , Max Adalbert , Adele Sandrock , Max Landa , Käthe Dorsch and Richard Tauber . Max Hansen and Siegfried Arno were discovered and promoted by him . He also worked for the film as a screenwriter and director and wrote libretti for the operetta New York - Berlin with the music of Rudolf Nelson . He was the holder of the "Order for Art and Science".

As a Jew , Friedmann-Frederich emigrated to Prague in 1933 . Here he directed guest appearances at the German Theater in Prague . In 1935 he was posthumously excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

Works

  • Heinrich Stobitzer and Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: Equestrian attack! Comedy in three acts. Decision, Berlin 1907.
  • Heinrich Stobitzer and Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: Miss Mama. Comedy in three acts. Bloch, Berlin undated (approx. 1909).
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: Meyers. Stagger in three acts. With 2 decoration plans. (= Universal library 5329, ZDB ID 134899-1 ). Reclam, Leipzig 1910.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The family child. Waver in three acts. Bloch, Berlin 1911.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The pleasure trip. A travel fluctuation in four stations. Bloch, Berlin 1911.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: Mind people! Waver in three acts. Bloch, Berlin 1912.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The white vest ... comedy in three acts. Theater-Verlag, Berlin 1913.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: lodging visit. Variation in 3 acts. Karczag, Vienna et al. 1914.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: Club people. Comedy in 3 acts. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin ao 1917.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich and Adolf Glaßbrenner : 'Nante'. 4 pictures from old Berlin after Adolf Glassbrenner freely edited. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin ao 1918.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The Stralauer Fischzug. 6 pictures from old Berlin after Julius von Voss and Adolf Glassbrenner. Music based on the motifs of contemporary masters compiled by Bogumil Zepler. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin ao 1918.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich and Robert Bodanzky : New York - Berlin. Equipment operetta. Music by Rudolph Nelson. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1922.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The luxury cabin. A game on the waves in three acts. Ahn & Simrock GmbH, Berlin 1926.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich and Richard Rillo: The hotel rat. 3 nudes from married life in a small French town. Music by Walter Bromme with an insert by Gerard Jacobson. Rondo-Verlag, Berlin 1927.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich and August Neidhardt: The street singer. Operetta in three parts (= broadcast games. A periodically published series of verbatim text books on the broadcast games of the Funk-Hour Berlin. 3, 47, ZDB -ID 847059-5 ). Music by Leo Fall . Set up for radio by Cornelis Bronsgeest . Funk-Dienst publishing house, Berlin 1927.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: The Dickkopf… comedy in 3 acts. Bloch, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1928.
  • Fritz Friedmann-Frederich: "My cousin Eduard". Variation in 3 acts. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1930.

Scripts (selection)

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 398.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. = International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Émigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2: The Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Part 1: A - K. Saur, Munich et al. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 565.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example Club People (premiered in 1917) was repeated 280 times at the Deutsches Künstler-Theater . Renate Richter: The German artist theater under Victor Barnowsky (1915-1924). An investigation taking into account contemporary criticism (= Theater and Drama. Vol. 33, ISSN  0172-8024 ). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 42 (At the same time: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1969).
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann-Frederich, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1934
Place of death Prague