Fritz Stege

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Fritz Stege (born April 11, 1896 in Witterschlick ; † March 31, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) was a German music journalist during the Nazi era and a composer of accordion music.

Life

Fritz Stege attended a secondary school in Berlin and was drafted at the beginning of the First World War, during the war he lost his father, who was also drafted. From 1919 to 1923 he studied with Jean Paul Ertel and John Wolf musicology at the University of Berlin and was with a thesis on Constantin Christian Dedekind doctorate . Stege had composed Schlager during his student days , which he had to dismiss as a youthful sin during the Nazi era , when he was a victim of intrigue. Stege worked as a freelance music critic and music writer . He published his own "Kulturkorrespondenz für Musik" (cultural correspondence for music) and worked as an editor in various specialist journals.

Stege had been a supporter of right-wing radical groups in the Weimar Republic since the beginning of the twenties and was a music reporter for the German-Völkisch freedom movement from 1927 to 1929 . For political reasons he prevented Felix Weingartner from taking a concert tour through the Palatinate in 1928 "by initiating a general press offensive". He joined the NSDAP in 1930 with membership number 410.480 and in 1932 became the "Fachspartenleiter Literatur" in the Kampfbund for German Culture .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became head of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Musikkritiker” and took on the party's task of “cleaning up the German music critics”, but got into a dispute over organizational issues with Friedrich W. Herzog from the Reich Association of German Writers . In March 1933 he denounced Fritz Jöde to Hans Hinkel and sponsored Otto Jochum in his place , who applied to bring the misguided youth to a new kind of folk music education in building up in the service of the fatherland. Stege became press officer of the Reichsmusikkammer and press chief of the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft . As a film editor, he edited the Tobis foreign press service and joined UFA's picture editing team . Stege was the music critic of the party organ Völkischer Beobachter and also wrote for the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps . In May 1933, Stege called for the takeover of power in the opera houses and orchestras in an article in the Zeitschrift für Musik , of which he had become editor . In May 1933 he summed up the restriction of jazz music on German radio that “we” demanded in April 1932: “Today, negro jazz has been banned from Berlin radio.” Stege also called for “the exclusion of foreign dance bands”. In his Zeitschrift für Musik he boasted that through his work, Hans Mersmann had been replaced as editor of the Melos magazine , that he had contributed to the dismissals of Carl Ebert and Otto Klemperer , and on the other hand the National Socialists Richard Trunk and Otto Krauss to new jobs have helped.

In the Völkischer Beobachter he called for the exclusion of Jews from German musical life. In a report on the German Composers' Day in 1934, at which Richard Strauss spoke, he formulated his national concept of art:

“It's not about the direction of art, but about the type of art. The people should live again in art and the artist in the people! That is the first task of the National Socialist art policy "

This corresponded to the fact that he went under the censors of jazz music and accused a composer like Boris Blacher of being close to jazz music.

For the Austrian composer Roderich Mojsisovics he wrote the libretto for his Nordic Volksoper, which premiered in 1936, in 3 acts North in Need .

Nothing is known about Stege's “superficial denazification ”. Stege's book Bilder aus der Deutschen Musikkritik (1936) was included in the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone in 1948 . His novel, But apart, who is it , published in 1944 . was included in the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR in 1952/3 . In 1951, Stege founded a private music school in Wiesbaden , where he worked as a course instructor at the adult education center as well as at the Humboldt Institute and the youth music school. As a music critic he now wrote for the Wiesbadener Kurier . For his services to the promotion of folk music, the Hessian Singers Association awarded him the silver badge of honor, the German Harmonica Association the golden badge of honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Constantin Christian Dedekind, a poet and musician of the 17th century. Diss. Berlin 1922
  • The occult in music. Contributions to a Metaphysics of Music . E. Bisping, Munster i. W. 1925.
  • Pictures from the German music criticism. Critical battles in 2nd century Regensburg: Bosses 1936
  • Resounding light. In: magazine for music. Vol. 103, No. 10, October 1936, ZDB -ID 203042-1 , p. 1235.
  • But apart from that, who is it? A music novel . Stolle, Freital 1 / Dresden / Leipzig / Berlin 1944.
  • Ernst Bücken : Dictionary of Music Revised. u. erg. v. Fritz Stege. Dieterich, Wiesbaden 1953
  • Music, magic, mysticism . Verl. Der Leuchter Reichl, Remagen 1961.
  • Hear, understand, experience music. An introduction . Wancura, Vienna / Cologne 1962.

Essays

  • Excerpts reproduced by Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich . 1963
  • Marginal glosses on musical life. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , 1933
  • Appeal to German music critics. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , May 1933
  • Fulfilled suggestions and requests. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , May 1933
  • Future tasks of musicology. In: Zeitschrift für Musik, May 1933
  • The "privileged mistake" HH Stuckenschmidt - one settlement. In: Deutsche Kultur-Wacht , 1933
  • Municipal music awards. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , August 1933
  • Violin and saxophone. In: Deutsche Kultur-Wacht , December 1933
  • German and Nordic music. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , December 1934
  • Berlin music. In: Zeitschrift für Musik , January 1935

Compositions (selection)

  • Nordic dance sequence , 1936
  • Nordlandsklänge , 1937
  • Nordic folk dances , 1938
  • Heather pictures. Peasant waltz . Hohner, Trossingen / Württ. 1944.
  • Bird voices. Small play pieces . Hohner, Trossingen / Württ. 1955.
  • Puppet games. Small play pieces . Hohner, Trossingen / Württ. 1955.
  • From the four winds. Concert suite . Preissler, Munich 1957.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael H. Kater: Daring Game , 1998, p. 71
  2. ^ Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, p. 213
  3. ↑ a b Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, p. 21
  4. ↑ Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, pp. 208f
  5. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 586f.
  6. ^ Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, p. 217ff
  7. ↑ Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, p. 62f
  8. ↑ a b c Fritz Stege in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  9. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Daring Game , 1998, p. 258
  10. ^ A b Joseph Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , 1983, p. 72f
  11. ↑ October 12, 1935 - Ban on jazz music on German radio , by ZeitZeichen (WDR) , October 12, 2005
  12. ^ Fritz Stege: The German Composers' Day . Der Berliner Westen, February 19, 1934 University of California, Santa Barbara ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music.ucsb.edu
  13. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Daring Game , 1998, p. 97, p. 113
  14. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Daring Game , 1998, p. 263
  15. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Daring Game , 1998, p. 374
  16. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1948 .
  17. ^ List of the literature to be discarded 1953 .
  18. ↑ Fritz Stege ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 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. , at accordion-online @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.accordion-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Stege, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Witterschlick
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1967
Place of death Wiesbaden