Hans Müller-Einigen

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Hans Müller-Einigen (born October 25, 1882 in Brno , † March 8, 1950 in Einigen ; actually Hanns Müller ) was an Austrian writer, screenwriter and director. His younger brother was the writer Ernst Lothar .

Life

Hans Müller was the middle of the three sons (Robert * 1878; Ernst * 1890) of the lawyer Josef Müller and Johanna Wohlmuth. In 1897 the Jewish family moved to Vienna. He studied law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. He also attended the universities of Grenoble and Leipzig , where he attended lectures on philosophy and music history, and made further study trips through Europe and the USA.

After being published during his studies, he soon became very well known and was one of the most played authors in the Vienna Burgtheater in the first two decades of the 20th century . The satirical comedy Hargudl am Bach sparked one of the great theatrical scandals of this theater when it premiered in 1909 , the performance of the play Die Flamme 1920 was one of the author's great successes.

At that time Müller lived first in Vienna and then in Berlin.

Hans Müller was repeatedly sharply attacked by Karl Kraus , for example in the last days of mankind , in which Kraus Müller even had several appearances in person, with literally from his feature pages "Cassian at War" (Neue Freie Presse, September 6, 1914) and " Germany stands on "(25.8.1914) is quoted, and in several articles in the torch .

“The readers […] were of the opinion that I had invented the sentences that I put in Hans Müller's mouth. As if something like that could be invented. "

- "The Torch" 546, July 1920

In the 1920s he went to Hollywood, where several films were made based on his originals (among others by Ernst Lubitsch ), returned to Berlin and became chief dramaturge of the film company UFA , where he was responsible for classics such as Der Kongress tanzt (director: Erik Charell , music: Werner Richard Heymann ).

Müller achieved lasting success in the field of music theater. He was involved in two of the most successful operettas of the 20th century: On the one hand, the libretto to Oscar Straus ' Ein Walzertraum (1907) is based on one of his literary models, and on the other hand, he himself was a co-author of Ralph Benatzky's Im Weißen Rößl (1930) for that he edited the comedy template by Blumenthal and Kadelburg and inserted the figure of Emperor Franz Joseph. Müller also wrote the libretti for Violanta (1916) and Das Wunder der Heliane (1927, after Hans Kaltneker ) for Erich Wolfgang Korngold , the son of his close friend Julius Korngold .

From 1930 he lived in Einigen on Lake Thun in Switzerland with his partner Nikolaus Schwarz; he then made the place name part of his artist name.

In 1945, Müller rarely returned to Vienna, where Der Helfer Gottes (with Albert Bassermann as Henri Dunant , his first role after returning from emigration) and Eugenie were performed at the Volkstheater in 1948 .

Works

Müller's work is characterized by effectively secure dramatic and often has a strong homoerotic undertone (about the ecstatic love fantasies of Violanta or frivolous scenes in the White Horse Inn .) This could be the view of Arthur Maibach one reason be that posterity largely by Muller turned away because his sensual aesthetics did not fit into the "staid" 1950s. But also a performance of the piece Die Flamme 1980 was judged by the critics as out of date.

Without ever having been a soldier himself, Müller advanced to the front line reporter in the First World War with patriotic battle descriptions .

“We are still thinking of his feature section shortly after the outbreak of war, in which Mr. Müller described with his own irresistible grace how he fought as a lieutenant in Russian Poland [...]. We in our simplicity really believed at that time that Hans the dreamer had entered; soon found out that Hans Müller was still responsible in Viennese salons. But the economy had changed the war and so Mr. Müller wrote a soul upswing. "

- Arbeiter-Zeitung , February 16, 1917

In 1916, the historical drama "Kings" at the Burgtheater experienced such a triumphant success in the wake of patriotic enthusiasm that it was soon played in all German-speaking theaters. After a performance of the drama in Munich, Müller appeared on stage in uniform. Because of this, he became a target in particular for criticism from Karl Kraus, who targeted Müller's pompous style, riddled with precious anachronisms, in the “Fackel”. Müller brought an honorary libel suit, but had to withdraw it and admit that he had never been at the front.

prose

  • Book of Adventure . Book decorations by Lucian Bernhard. Fleischel, Berlin 1905
    (This includes the novella Nux, the Prince Consort , which served as the template for the operetta libretto for A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus.)
  • Secretland . Novellas. Fleischel, Berlin 1909.
  • Dreams and foams . Fleischel, Berlin 1911.
  • The art of being happy. Design, images and results . Cotta, Stuttgart 1917.
  • Agrippina's mirror . With 12 original etchings by Stefan Hlawa . Avalun, Vienna-Leipzig 1919.
  • The Trukitzan fire . Narrative. Reclam, Leipzig 1925.
  • The happiness of being there. A diary . Francke, Bern 1940.
  • People are all the same . Three stories. Francke, Bern 1946.
  • Sniff. Story of a friendship . Francke, Bern 1944.
  • Catacomb. Storellini fiorentini . Drawings by Fritz Traffelet. Herbert Lang, Bern 1950.

Poetry

  • Twilight . 1901
  • The alluring violin . A book of poems. A. Langen, Munich 1904.
  • The garden of life . A biblical poetry. Cotta, Stuttgart 1904.
  • The rose lute . Poems. Fleischel, Berlin 1909.
  • Trilogy of Change . A series of poems. OV, o.O., 1948.

Dramatic works

  • The other life . 1900
  • Quintus Horatius Flaccus . Comedy in one act. O. V, o. O., o. J.
  • The stronger life . A one-act cycle. Fleischel, Berlin 1906.
  • Poor little woman . Play in one act. Bloch, Berlin 1907.
  • The puppet school . Play in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1908.
  • Hargudl am Bach or the box of personalities . Comedy in four acts. Bloch, Berlin 1909.
  • The miracle of the Beatus . Drama in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin 1910.
  • Disposition . Disrespectful comedies. German-Austrian publishing house, Vienna-Leipzig 1912.
  • The lovely Adrian . Comedy in three acts. German-Austrian publishing house, Vienna-Leipzig 1913.
  • Kings . A play in three acts. Sales office of the Association of German Writers, Berlin 1916.
  • The creator . A play in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1918.
  • The stars . A drama in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1919.
  • The flame . Play in three acts. Manuscript, Berlin 1920.
  • The shirt button . Comedy in one act. Reclam, Leipzig 1921.
  • The vampire or the hunted . Play in five acts. Publishing house of the "Neue Freie Presse", Vienna 1922.
  • The Tokay . Comedy in three acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1925.
  • Veronica . A piece of everyday life in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1926.
  • The golden galley . A society piece in three acts. Felix Bloch Erben, Berlin 1927.
  • Dear Aida ...! A funny mess in four pictures . Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Luck on heaven's rest . A quaver in three acts. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1935.
  • Eugenie . Study of a Character and Time in Five Acts. Saturn, Vienna 1938.
  • The fight for light . Play in three acts. Francke, Bern 1939.
  • Little waltz in A minor . Comedy in five pictures. Francke, Bern 1939.
  • When husbands meet . ( The Nightingale Congress ). Waver in three acts. Drei Masken Verlag. Berlin 1944.
  • The helper of God . A fight for love in ten stations . Francke, Bern 1947.
  • Darling of the graces. A comedy from the time when there were other worries . Francke, Bern 1950.
  • Journey of a woman . One piece in six stations. Zsolnay, Vienna no year (after 1945).

Libretti

  • A waltz dream . Music: Oscar Straus. Doblinger, Vienna 1907.
  • Violanta . Opera. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Schott, Mainz 1916.
  • The miracle of the helians . Opera. After Hans Kaltneker's mystery Die Heilige . Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Bulkhead. Mainz 1927.
  • In the white Rößl . Music: Ralph Benatzky . Charivari Musikverlag, Berlin 1930.
  • We'll be fine tomorrow! Six pictures after an old Viennese farce. Music: Ralph Benatzky . Charivari Musikverlag, Berlin 1932.
  • Lady No. 1, right . Musical comedy in six pictures (freely based on André Picard). Song texts: Rudolf Bertram (pseud. By Robert Gilbert) . Music: Werner Richard Heymann . Doremi Musikverlag, Basel 1934.
  • Fresh wind from Canada. Happy events in four days . A sway. Lyrics: Hans Fritz Beckmann. Music: Herbert Walter. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • The richest man in the world . A piece with music in 5 pictures. Music by Ralph Benatzky . Felix Bloch heirs. Berlin 1936.
  • Paul and the Fall . A quaver in three acts. Song texts by Hans Robert Bortfeldt. Music: Edmund von der Meden. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1936.

Scripts

Autobiographical writings

  • Beloved earth. Miniatures on the go . Francke, Bern 1938.
  • Youth in Vienna. Memories of the most beautiful city in Europe . Francke, Bern 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register for israel. Religious community in Brno 1880–1895, fol. 47, no. 422.
  2. ↑ Birth register for israel. Cult in Brno, 1875-1880, fol. 47, no. 374.
  3. ^ Wiener Theaterbilder. In:  Wiener Bilder , October 27, 1909, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb
  4. ↑ (Burgtheater.) "Hargudl am Bach". In:  Wiener Sonntags-Zeitung / Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung , October 25, 1909, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsz
  5. ^ Paulus Manker : The theater man Gustav Manker. Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0 manker.at
  6. ↑ Hans Haider : Whoever buys is invulnerable. “Flamme” by Hans Müller-Einigen in Courage . In: Die Presse of May 22, 1980, p. 5.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Einigen, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Hans (real name); Müller, Hans (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1950
Place of death Some