Hans Rehberg

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Hans Rehberg (born December 25, 1901 in Posen , † June 20, 1963 in Duisburg ) was a German writer and playwright .

Life

Rehberg began writing at the age of 25. His creative peak was between the years 1930, when he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA , and 1944. The peak of his career was therefore mainly during the time of National Socialism .

From 1931 he has been living in Brandenburg , where from 1931 he lived near Sommerswalde Castle and from 1935 in the Pieskow artists' colony "Meckerndorf". He and his wife Maria Ohly had six children: Maria, Katharina, Nikolaus, Till, Friedrich and the actor and director Hans-Michael Rehberg .

Rehberg, who was considered a Suhrkamp author, dealt mainly with great personalities from contemporary history in his works, but none of his works deal with personalities of National Socialism. Due to his biographical works on Prussian greats, he was considered a popular author in the years from 1933. Despite his criticism of the political justification for the murder of Ernst Röhm , the premiere of his work The Great Elector in Berlin in 1934 was celebrated from all sides and received good reviews. also in the Volkischer Beobachter .

In general, Rehberg's attitude towards the National Socialist ideology cannot be clearly defined. The themes of "Prussia" and "Prussia" that he worked on corresponded to the ideological ideas and interests of the regime, which is why Die Bühne counted him among the "young National Socialist poets" in the March 1, 1936 edition. Nonetheless, Rehberg came under strong criticism in the SS- infiltrated magazine Die Weltliteratur in 1941 because he was unable to stage a true Prussian hero character in his works. Rehberg then refrained from dealing with political issues in his plays, left Brandenburg and went to Ochelhermsdorf in Silesia . He became a war correspondent with the rank of lieutenant to the commander of the submarines . This work inspired him to write his submarine drama The Wolves . The play premiered in Breslau in 1943 . A planned performance in the Reich capital Berlin was forbidden by Joseph Goebbels because of the lack of propaganda character. Furthermore, in Goebbels' view, there was too much pessimism in the piece . The re-performance of the play on October 23, 2003 in the "Theater in der Garage", the second venue of the Erlangen Theater , again caused a sensation because the play was penned by a National Socialist artist.

After the end of the Second World War , the Rehbergs first fled to Assenhausen in Bavaria . In February 1946 they moved from there to Hohenschäftlarn , where Hans Rehberg began to write again. After the first performances of his post-war works, his past caught up with him in February 1949. Although he "with 87 productions between 1933 and 1944 (the theater was closed) [...] was one of the most successful and frequently performed dramatists of the time", he was finally classified as a follower on July 13, 1949 in the course of the denazification process . Despite this judgment, he always had a reputation as a National Socialist artist. Nevertheless, other works were performed. In 1951 Rehberg went to Duisburg on the mediation of Paul Kleinewefers , where he wrote the festival of the same name on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the founding of Königsberg in 1955 . The pieces Rembrandt and Kleist that appeared afterwards were highly controversial because they did not adhere to biographical details.

In the Soviet zone of occupation , several of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

Rehberg died of heart failure in 1963.

rating

In his secret report, Carl Zuckmayer sharply attacked Rehberg: Politically, he had secured his back through “party membership, SA group leaders, etc., as well as through embarrassing hymns to the Führer”. Zuckmayer accuses the playwright Rehberg of "His figures sway around on the stage like larger-than-life, artificially inflated balloon figures". “As a person”, according to Zuckmayer, Rehberg is “without a doubt a Schubiak”, and for him Rehberg is “marked and done”.

The theater critic Günther Rühle advocates Rehberg : This account paints a wrong picture. Rehberg, SA man until 1934, also Gaukulturwart in Pomerania, after the Röhm Putsch lost all chances of a career sponsored by the party, Gustaf Gründgens and Jürgen Fehling supported him (until the 1950s). As late as 1943, a party report said: Rehberg “was hardly touched by the National Socialist world of thought, but was still quite clinging to the spirit of the systemic era, against which he once stood politically in battle”. According to Rühle, Rehberg is “the only playwright of the Nazi era who is open to discussion and possibly needs revision. His 'Prussian dramas' are the most serious dramatic product of the entire Hitler era. " 

Works

  • Cecil Rhodes : play in 3 acts , 1930 (world premiere on March 8 in Bochum)
  • The golden ball , drama, around 1930
  • Johannes Kepler : Play in 3 acts , 1933
  • The Great Elector , play, 1934 (world premiere on November 30th at the Berlin State Theater)
  • Death and the Reich , 1934
  • Friedrich I. , Comedy, 1935 (first performance on April 10th at the Alte Theater in Leipzig)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm I , 1935 (first performance April 19, 1936 at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin)
  • Kaiser and König , 1936 (first performance on October 27, 1937 at the State Theater in Hamburg)
  • The Prussian Dramas , 1937
  • The Seven Years' War , drama, 1937 (world premiere on April 7, 1938 at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin)
  • Queen Isabella: Play in 3 Acts , 1939 (world premiere on April 7th)
  • The Prussian Comedy: In 3 Days , 1940
  • Suez Canal , audio and drama, 1939/1940
  • Heinrich and Anna , 1941
  • Gajus Julius Caesar , 1942
  • Karl V , play 1942
  • The Wolves: Submarine Drama , 1944
  • Heinrich VII. , 1947 (first performance in 1949 at the Bavarian State Theater)
  • Bothwell and Maria : play in 3 acts , (first performance 1948)
  • Elisabeth and Essex , 1949 (premiered April 29)
  • Maria and Elisabeth (first performance 1953 in Munich)
  • The husband murder (first performance on October 15, 1953 in Düsseldorf)
  • Matricide (first performance on March 12, 1953 in Stuttgart)
  • Königsberg , Festival on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the founding of Königsberg (Prussia) , 1955
  • Rembrandt (first performance 1956)
  • Kleist (world premiere on December 20, 1958 at the Schlosstheater in Oldenburg)

literature

  • Sonja Gevers: Hans Rehberg - the Prussian. In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology, Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 197–228. ISBN 978-3-89528-719-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 476.
  2. ↑ quoted from Joseph Wulf: Theater and Film in the Third Reich. A documentation . Vienna: Ullstein 1983, p. 179.
  3. ↑ Short biography and information on the work of Hans Rehberg in Literaturport
  4. ^ Gerhard Stadelmaier: Wolfsheul in Erlangen , October 7, 2003.
  5. ^ Sonja Gevers: Hans Rehberg - the Prussian. In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2009, p. 217; see. Thomas Eicher: Schedule structures 1929-1944 . In: Henning Rischbieter (Ed.): Theater in the "Third Reich". Theater politics, schedule structures, Nazi drama . Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer 2000, p. 485.
  6. ^ Sonja Gevers: Hans Rehberg - the Prussian. In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poet for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Bielefeld: Aisthesis lefe2009, p. 223f.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-r.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-q.html
  10. ↑ BookRags: Dictionary of Literary Biography on Hans Rehberg (English).
  11. ↑ Secret report. Reports by Carl Zuckmayer (2002, Wallstein-Verlag, ed. Gunther Nickel and Johanna Schrön)
  12. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/2002/19/200219_l-zuckmayer.xml
  13. ↑ welt.de
personal data
SURNAME Rehberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, dramaturge and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1963
Place of death Duisburg