Georg Pauly (dramaturge)

Georg Pauly (born June 4, 1883 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 16, 1950 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , actually Georg Plaut ) was a German dramaturge, theater scholar and director.

Life

Georg Plaut grew up as one of fourteen siblings in a Jewish family in Hesse. His father was a rabbi . After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium , he first studied physics , philosophy , literature and theater studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt and later at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1905 with the work On Knowledge of Isonitrosoketones . Sometime after graduation, he chose the name Georg Pauly as his theater name, while his birth name was still used as a civil name for a few years.

1908 began his career in the theater world. He began as a theater conductor in Marburg an der Lahn , then moved to the Kurtheater in Davos . From 1910 to 1911 he directed the New Berlin Operetta Ensemble . As an actor he appeared in Leipzig , Bad Freienwalde and Berlin. He had to interrupt his work as head director in Wroclaw and as Kapellmeister in Berlin because he was drafted into military service. In World War I he served by its own account on the front and then as a military Regierungsbaumeister the Royal Prussian engineering Komité.

After his military service, he worked from 1917 to 1922 as a director and dramaturge at the opera stage of the Wroclaw City Theater . After half a year at the Wiesbaden State Theater , he moved to the Städtische Oper Berlin , where he was senior director and dramaturge from 1923 to 1928. In addition, he taught at the State Academic University of Music . He then went to the Staatstheater Kassel for a year as the deputy of Ernst Legal and took over the management of the Saarbrücken City Theater from 1929 to 1933 . During the time of the Saar region , he was attacked by the National Socialists because of his Jewish origins. Incitement articles appeared in the NSDAP weekly newspaper Saardeutsche Volksstimme . He lost his job due to the regulations of the law to restore the professional civil service , so his contract at the Saarbrücken theater was not extended.

In 1935 Pauly emigrated to Buenos Aires . There he worked as a theater director. Probably from 1945 to 1950 he was senior director at the National Theater and lecturer in theater studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata Argentina. He died on June 16, 1950 at the age of 67 in Buenos Aires.

family

Pauly's first marriage was to the piano teacher Hermine Correns-Pauly . After Pauly went into exile, she was banned from working as the wife of a Jew and was only able to find work again after a divorce in 1939. The marriage had three children. Reinhard G. Pauly is now a musicologist and lives in Lake Oswego , Oregon . Shortly before his death, Georg Pauly married his second wife, Dora Heyman.

Web links

• Georg Pauly in the dictionary of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermione Correns-Pauly. Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , accessed on July 4, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Reinhard G. Pauly. Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , accessed on July 4, 2012 .