Fritz Stavenhagen (writer)

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The Stavenhagenhaus in Groß-Borstel
Fritz Stavenhagen's tomb at Ohlsdorf cemetery with the medallion of Paul Hamann

Fritz Ernst August Stavenhagen (born September 18, 1876 in Hamburg ; † May 9, 1906 near Hamburg) was a German playwright and storyteller . Today he is essentially only known because of his popular drama "Mudder Mews" , written in Low German .

Life

Fritz Stavenhagen was born in Hamburg as the son of a coachman who came from Mecklenburg and initially trained as a chemist in Blankenese . In Munich and Berlin he continued his education as an autodidact and was soon able to make a living with literary sketches and stories for newspapers .

In Berlin, Stavenhagen was sponsored by Otto Brahm , the director of the Deutsches Theater , after the Schiller Foundation had already noticed him. With this financial support (Brahm offered him an annual salary), Stavenhagen's living situation improved.

In 1905 he became dramaturge at the Berlin Schillertheater , but was unable to pursue this activity for long due to his early death. Stavenhagen died in 1906 at the age of 29 of a gallbladder disease and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. In 1926, a tomb was built on his grave, for which Paul Hamann created the medallion .

After Stavenhagen's death, the influential völkisch - anti-Semitic literary journalist Adolf Bartels in particular campaigned for the spread of the narrow Low German theater work. Bartels Aesthetic Appreciation was published as early as 1907 and "secured the dramas the attention of a wider ... public. Stavenhagen's plays are" promising approaches, "according to Bartels," which give us the courage to purify German theater ... for its peers.

monument

Fritz Stavenhagen monument, by Hermann Georg Haas in Groß Borstel
Fritz Stavenhagen monument, by Hermann Georg Haas

In Groß Borstel (a district of Hamburg since 1913), a Herme by the writer Fritz Stavenhagen was erected by the sculptor Hermann Georg Haas (1864–1912) in 1910. Today it stands at the Stavenhagenhaus , which was named after him in 1962.

Artistic heritage

The Stavenhagen Prize awarded by the Lower Saxony Stage Association in the 1930s and the Fritz Stavenhagen Prize awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in Hamburg from 1959 to 1982 are also associated with Stavenhagen .

Artistic creation

Stavenhagen's most important work, the play Mudder Mews (1904) has occasionally been compared with the naturalistic dramas of Gerhart Hauptmann , who was the resident poet at the Deutsches Theater. The piece belongs to this day, partly in arrangements - e.g. B. by Günther Siegmund -, to the "classical" repertoire of Low German theaters.

De dütsche Michel (1905), a peasant comedy, is set at the time of serfdom in Mecklenburg. (See also: German Michel )

Like his dramatic work, Stavenhagen's narrative oeuvre is influenced by both naturalism and local art , as the collection of sketches and stories Grau und Golden , published in 1904, shows.

Works

Radio plays

  • 1924: CMudder Mews. Low German drama in five acts - Director: Not specified
  • 1925: CMudder Mews. Low German drama in five acts - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 broadcasts)
  • 1925: Jürgen Piepers. Low German folk piece in 5 acts - Director: Hans Böttcher (2 broadcasts)
  • 1926: Jürgen Piepers. Low German folk piece in 5 acts - Director: Hans Böttcher
  • 1926: CMudder Mews. Low German drama in five acts - Director: Not specified
  • 1927: The pilot. Drama in one act - Director: Not specified ( NORAG (Hamburg) )
  • 1927: Mudder Mews. Low German drama in five acts - Director: Hans Böttcher (guest performance by the Low German Noragbühne Hamburg at the Südwestdeutschen Rundfunkdienst AG in Frankfurt am Main)
  • 1927: The pilot. Drama in 1 act - Director: Karl Wilhelm Bink ( ORAG (Königsberg) )
  • 1950: Mudder Mews - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1951: Mudder Mews - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg
  • 1951: De dütsche Michel - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1956: De Lots - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1956: De ruge Hoff - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1956: De dütsche Michel - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg
  • 1957: Jürgen Piepers - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg
  • 1960: De ruge Hoff - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg
  • 1985: Mudder Mews - adaptation and direction: Jochen Schütt

Radio play about Fritz Stavenhagen

In 1956, the NDR produced a dialect radio play by Albert Mähl under the title: Fritz Stavenhagen - An audio series about the work and life of the first Low German playwright on the 50th anniversary of his death on May 9, 1956 with samples from "Der Lotse" , "Mudder Mews" and "De dütsche Michel".

Under the direction of Hans Tügel spoke among others:

It was first broadcast on May 7, 1956. The playback time is 60,000 minutes. The audio document is still preserved.

literature

  • Adolf Bartels : Fritz Stavenhagen. An aesthetic appreciation. Dresden u. a .: Koch 1907.
  • Arthur Becker: Stavenhagen and its position in the development of German drama. Oldenburg: Schulze 1927. (= research on literature, theater and newspaper studies; 2)
  • Ulf-Thomas Lesle : Fritz Stavenhagen . In: The Low German Theater. From "völkischer Not" to literary comfort . Hamburg 1986, pp. 63-77.
  • Josef Plate: Fritz Stavenhagen as a Low German playwright. Univ. Dissertation Münster 1923.
  • Walter Johannes Schröder: Fritz Stavenhagen's peasant comedy "De dütsche Michel". History and appreciation according to form and content. Leipzig: Eichblatt 1935. (= Form and Spirit; 35)
  • Walter Johannes Schröder: Fritz Stavenhagen. Life and work. Neumünster i. H .: Wachholtz 1937.
  • Carl Stolle: Fritz Stavenhagen's "Mudder Mews". Marburg: Elwert 1926. (= contributions to German literary studies; 27)
  • Otto Weltzien: The Low German Drama. Its becoming in poetry and representation. Rostock iM: Kaufungen-Verl. 1913. (= contributions to the history of Low German poetry; 3)

Web links

Commons : Fritz Stavenhagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maike Bruhns : Hamann, Paul. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 173
  2. ↑ Ulf-Thomas Lesle: The Low German Theater. From "völkischer Not" to literary comfort . Hamburg 1986, p. 66.
  3. ^ Adolf Bartels: Fritz Stavenhagen: An aesthetic appreciation. Dresden / Leipzig 1907, p. 101
  4. ^ Maike Bruhns: Haas, Hermann Georg. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, p. 165
personal data
SURNAME Stavenhagen, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stavenhagen, Fritz Ernst August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and narrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1906
Place of death at Hamburg