Heinrich Teweles

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Heinrich Teweles, ca.1920

Heinrich Teweles (born November 13, 1856 in Prague , Bohemia , Austrian Empire ; † August 9, 1927 in Reichenau an der Rax , Austria ) was a Bohemian- Austrian playwright , non-fiction author , essayist , theater critic , editor-in-chief and theater director .

Life

Heinrich Teweles is one of eight children of Moritz Teweles and Rosie Wahle. He attended grammar school in his native city of Prague . He enrolled at the German University of Prague to study law . During his studies he was an advocate of Prague Germanness . Even more than law and politics, he devoted himself to his talent for writing. So he ended up first, in 1876, as a journalist for David Kuh 's daily messenger from Bohemia , which was converted into the weekly Monday Revue from Bohemia after the editor's death . When Angelo Neumann founded the Royal German State Theater in Prague in 1887 , he needed staff for it. He got Teweles as a dramaturge and gave the first performance on January 5, 1888. Teweles stayed there until 1900. During this time Teweles made the acquaintance of some theater professionals with whom he later remained closely connected, for example with Alfred Reucker, who was employed there until 1901 as actor and chief director . Teweles went back to the newspaper, this time as editor of the German-speaking Bohemia , for which he had written articles from time to time. He soon had the opportunity to become editor-in-chief of the Prager Tagblatt . Here he mainly took on the stage and wrote regular theater reviews.

At the end of 1910 he left the daily newspaper because Angelo Neumann had died and his widow wanted to see him as his successor. Through his responsible field of activity he gained a reputation beyond the city limits, but also faced adversity, because a new attraction called the Lichtspielhaus suddenly competed for visitor favor. Furthermore, in May 1914 he vehemently resisted the obligation on the part of the Presidium of the German Stage Association to acquire and perform the adaptation of Don Juan made by Karl Scheidemantel . After all, the difficult war years had to be survived. In the middle of this period of time, in 1916, he founded the “Prager Kammerspiele” for sophisticated, modern theater in Berlin, following the example of Max Reinhardt , but not at the Deutsches Theater, where the audience was not open to it, but in the Estates Theater . In autumn 1918 he handed over the management to Leopold Kramer . From then on, he focused all his energy and concentration on writing. He also wrote again for Bohemia , and the Neue Freie Presse was added as a client.

He is best known for non-fiction books and essays on literary history and language theory . His book Goethe and the Jews , published in 1925, was enthusiastically received by the liberal bourgeoisie , but was unable to contain the pioneering anti-Semitism of society as a whole. His early work The Struggle for Language continued into the 2000s.

Teweles belonged to various associations; at Concordia, the association of German writers and artists in Bohemia, he was vice-president. He died while visiting a large industrialist friend in Lower Austria . Alone in his room, he suffered a stroke . The direct descendants are: NO Scarpi , who was trained as a theater director by Max Reinhardt , the journalist and literary critic François Bondy and (the great-grandson) Luc Bondy , also a director.

Stage works

  • 1881: the actress
  • 1886: marriage law
  • 1887: Women's School
  • 1888: The Ring of Polykrates (after Friedrich Schiller )
  • 1889: The partner
  • 1891: the hundredth birthday
  • 1893: my papa
  • 1894: Johann Strauss
  • 1895: Demetrius (after Friedrich Hebbel )
  • 1898: The friend of the people

Fonts

  • 1884: The struggle for language. Linguistic chats (C. Reißner, Leipzig)
  • 1885: The poor. Little novels (C. Reißner, Leipzig)
  • 1886: Press and State. An investigation (D. Kuh, Prague)
  • 1893: Ida Boy-Ed (original publication without publisher's name; also in: Nord und Süd . A German monthly , 70th volume, S. Schottländer / Schlesische Verlags-Anstalt, Breslau 1894)
  • 1894: Prague book of poets (Friedrich Ehrlich's bookstore, Prague)
  • 1899: Contribution to the Goethe celebration in Prague (A. Haase, Prague)
  • 1910: The novel ship. Cheerful love stories (Concordia Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin)
  • 1918: Goethe's novel. Lecture at the opening of the lecture series organized by the Prager Tagblatt on the best of starving children in Northern Bohemia on April 17, 1918 in the Hotel Central in Prague (Verlag des Prager Tagblatt, Prague)
  • 1920: When the swallows move home. A memorial sheet for Karl Herloßsohn (self-published, Prague)
  • 1922: Memories of Josef Willomitzer (self-published, Prague)
  • 1923: Goethe's first girl. Based on the poet's letters and poems (Wila-Verlags AG, Vienna)
  • 1925: Literature and book friendly. To August Sauer on his seventieth birthday, October 12, 1925 (A. Haase, Prague)
  • 1925: Goethe and the Jews (W. Gente, Hamburg)
  • 1927: theater and audience. Memories and experiences (Society of German Book Friends in Bohemia, Prague)
  • 1927: Twenty sheets ... From a woman's diary (Köhler & Amelang, Leipzig)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Heinrich Teweles died . In: Prager Tagblatt . No. 189 . Prague August 10, 1927, p. 3 ( online [accessed April 25, 2014]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Heinrich Teweles died . In: New Free Press . No. 22593 . Vienna August 10, 1927, p. 6 ( online [accessed April 25, 2014]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Teweles . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . (DBE). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. tape 9 (Schlumberger - Thiersch). KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 899 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ a b c Friedrich Goedeking: A gate to the world. The German theater in Prague has been an integral part of the Bohemian cultural scene for over a century. In: Prague Newspaper. Prago Media, October 10, 2013, accessed on April 25, 2014 (Chapter: Wagner bloom in Prague ).
  5. ↑ Goethe and the Jews . In: Vossische Zeitung . Ullstein, 1925, ZDB -ID 748894-4 (detailed book review, without exact date.).
  6. ↑ "Drunk as Ionesco" . The theater director Luc Bondy, 50, about his first attempts at acting, famous role models and brillantines in his hair. In: Kultur-Spiegel . The program magazine. No. 7/1999 . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein, June 28, 1999, OCLC 183215305 , ZDB -ID 1455454-9 , At 17 you still have dreams, p. 46 ( online [accessed April 25, 2014]).
personal data
SURNAME Teweles, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Playwright, non-fiction author, essayist, theater critic, editor-in-chief and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1927
Place of death Reichenau an der Rax , Austria