Hans Rodenberg

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Hans Rodenberg (1961)

Hans Rodenberg (real. Rosenberg, Hans Rudolph , pseudonyms Curt Baumann, H. Berg, Rudolf Müller ; born October 2, 1895 in Lübbecke , † March 7, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German theater director , translator and film producer . He held leading positions at the Academy of the Arts of the GDR (AdK) and at DEFA .

Life

Hans Rodenberg (actually Rosenberg) was born to Jewish parents in Lübbecke. After completing school, he attended Max Reinhardt's drama school at the Deutsches Theater from 1912 to 1914 , where he also received his first engagements.

In 1914, Rodenberg volunteered and took part in the First World War; last as a sergeant. After the war ended, Rodenberg became a member of a workers 'and soldiers' council in 1918 .

After the suppression of the revolution , Rodenberg worked as an actor and director in Berlin from 1919 to 1931 (including at the Berliner Volksbühne ). He also took on roles and directing tasks in other cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. During this time he joined the Communist Party of Germany and did propaganda work. Here he also met his future wife, the cabaret artist Ilse Rodenberg .

In 1932 Rodenberg emigrated to the Soviet Union , where in 1935 he became deputy director of the film studio of International Workers Aid ( Meschrabpom-Film ) in Moscow. Until his return to Berlin in 1948, Rodenberg worked as a scenarioist, writer and broadcaster in the Soviet Union. According to two sources, Rodenberg is said to have worked as an NKVD spy among the German emigrants during the time of the Stalinist purges ( large Tschistka ) .

When he returned to the Soviet occupation zone in 1948, Rodenberg was able to continue his artistic development. He founded the theater of friendship in Berlin-Lichtenberg and became its first director . In 1952 he also became a full member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin (East), Performing Arts Section, and remained so until his death.

In 1949 he took part in the trial of Trajtscho Kostow and his group in Sofia as a special correspondent for New Germany .

Rodenberg was the main director of the DEFA studio for feature films from 1952 to 1956. Between 1956 and 1960 Rodenberg was dean at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg ; In 1958 he was appointed professor.

He was also active in cultural policy as deputy minister of culture (1960–1963), member of the State Council , the People's Chamber and the Central Committee of the SED.

From 1969 to 1974 Rodenberg was Vice President of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin (East).

Works by and with Hans Rodenberg

Films and productions

Theater direction

Publications

  • Hans Rodenberg (ed.): Sergei Eisenstein - artist of the revolution. Materials from the Berlin Eisenstein Conference, April 10-18, 1959, Berlin, Henschel Verlag, 1960
  • Johannes R. Becher , Alexander Abusch and Hans Rodenberg (eds.): Zeitschrift Sinn und Form - contributions to literature from 1953
  • Log of a life. Remembrance and Confession , Berlin 1980
  • Letters from troubled years , Berlin, Henschelverlag Art and Society 1985

In archive Performing Arts of AdK there are about 200 books by Hans Rodenberg. The archive of the DEFA studio for feature films, Potsdam-Babelsberg, owns the entire estate of Hans Rodenberg.

Honors

tomb

In 1965 Hans Rodenberg received the Karl Marx Order and in 1970 the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1978 his urn was buried in the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg . On September 10, 1980, the previously unnamed square in front of the Theater of Friendship in Berlin-Lichtenberg was named after Hans Rodenberg. In 1995, the district administration removed the name and the square was re-included in the course of the street An der Parkaue .

The former 7th  polytechnic high school in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Siegfriedstrasse, bore the honorary name "Hans Rodenberg", as did a medical battalion of the NVA in Schwerin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Rodenberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
  2. ↑ Volksbühne season chronicle 1930 to 1940. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 25, 2013 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 . 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.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  3. ^ Susanne Leonhard: Stolen Life , Athenaeum Bonn 1988 and Andreas W. Mytze: Ottwalt , Verlag Europäische Ideen Berlin 1977 p. 95ff
  4. ↑ bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
  5. ↑ DEFA archive page
  6. ↑ Hans-Rodenberg-Platz . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  7. ↑ List of former students 'stay friends'  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stayfriends.welt.de  
  8. ↑ private website about military structures in the area of ​​the GDR ( memento of the original from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.samberg.de

GDR citizens

personal data
SURNAME Rodenberg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar, film director and politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebbecke
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1978
Place of death Berlin