Heinrich Lautensack (writer)

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Heinrich Lautensack (born July 15, 1881 in Vilshofen , † January 10, 1919 in Eberswalde ) was a German writer .

Life

Memorial plaque on Lautensack's birthplace in Vilshofen on the Danube

The son of a fairground dealer and textile merchant grew up in Passau in a strictly Catholic family. In 1899 he began to study mathematics at the Technical University in Munich to become a geometer. Under the influence of the Schwabing scene, he broke off his studies and joined the cabaret Die Elf Scharfrichter in 1901 . Here he got to know Frank Wedekind , who encouraged him to make his own lyrical and dramatic attempts. Among other things, he wrote lecture pieces for the only female member of the executioners, the Diseuse Marya Delvard, and at the age of 23 married the actress Dora Harnisch , who appeared under the name Dora Stratton (his first play Medusa is dedicated to her).

In the autumn of 1904 the cabaret Die Elf Scharfrichter was dissolved. In 1907 he went to Berlin, where he lived as a freelance writer. He worked for the magazines Die Aktion and Das neue Pathos , translated from English and French, edited plays by other authors for the stage and took on occasional journalistic assignments. In 1910 he married the vaudeville singer Betty Eisner for the second time . Lautensack wrote ballads, dramas, short stories and, from 1912, some scripts based on Wedekind. In 1912/13 he edited the bimonthly magazine Die Bücherei Maiandros with Alfred Richard Meyer and Anselm Ruest .

His own works were printed in small editions (including by Kurt Wolff ), but not shown because of the censorship. The premiere of the cockfight in Vienna in 1911 is an exception . Again and again he came back to Passau and wrote his works here, set in Lower Bavaria , which dealt with the conflict between petty bourgeois sexual morality and natural instincts. In Hahnenkampf , located in Hauzenberg , six local "respectable persons" - fire chief, brewmaster, pharmacist, police commander, school teacher and gendarme - fight each other to the brim over a much sought-after lady. His best-known drama parsonage comedy is about a pastor who has molested both the housekeeper and, presumably, her pregnant assistant.

During the First World War he was a telegraph operator in garrison service in Samland ( East Prussia ). In 1917 he was discharged from the military and returned to Berlin. The death of Frank Wedekind, whom he admired throughout his life, in 1918 triggered a mental illness. At Wedekind's funeral in Munich's forest cemetery , the mourners noticed him when he had film recordings of the funeral made, screaming and gesticulating. He died a year later in mental derangement in the mental hospital Eberswalde and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

In the year he died, his play The Vow , set in the Capuchin monastery in Passau-Mariahilf , was premiered in Munich with Hermine Körner and Wilhelm Dieterle . The parsonage comedy starring Lucie Höflich was first staged in Berlin in 1920 . In addition to 200 performances in Berlin, it was shown on more than 100 German-speaking stages.

Works

Frank Wedekind 's Entombment , 1919
  • 1902: The eleven executioners. A muse almanac (articles only)
  • 1904: Medusa. From a monk's papers, online .
  • 1908: cockfight
  • 1910: Documents of the love frenzy. The collected poems
  • 1911: parsonage comedy
  • 1916: The vow
  • 1918: Samonian Ode
  • 1919: Erotic Voting Boards
  • 1919: Frank Wedekind's entombment. A requiem
  • 1920: Old Bavarian picture sheet. Prose poems
Scripts
Complete edition
posthumous revisions
  • Ariane Martin (Ed.): Heinrich Lautensack: A Requiem . A documentary film project about the funeral of Frank Wedekind. Annotated new edition of the draft script, with materials attached. (= Wedekind Readings, Volume 7). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-8260-6442-5 .

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Lautensack, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilshofen
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1919
Place of death Eberswalde