Jürgen Fehling

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Jürgen Fehling, October 1945

Jürgen Karl Geibel Fehling (born March 1, 1885 in Lübeck , † June 14, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German theater director and actor .

Life

Jürgen Fehling came from one of the most respected families in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. His father was the mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling , his maternal grandfather the poet Emanuel Geibel . Some Fehling served as models for characters in the novel Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann . The Lübeck Senator and Mayor Hermann Eschenburg was his brother-in-law.

J. G. Eschenburg (9) visiting the regiment in November 1916, Rittmeister Fehling (10)

Before Jürgen Fehling came to the theater , he studied theology and law in Berlin from 1903 to 1908 after graduating from high school at the Katharineum in Lübeck . In 1909 he took acting lessons from Paul Wegener and Friedrich Kayßler . In 1910 he made his debut as an actor in the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin; engagements in Vienna followed .

After the First World War , which Rittmeister d. R. spent in the service of the patrician infantry regiment "Lübeck" , he returned to Berlin and began to direct. In 1919 he staged, with his partner Lucie Mannheim in the lead role, The Marriage of Nikolai Gogol . In 1922 Leopold Jessner brought Fehling and Mannheim to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin . Fehling staged more than 100 plays here by 1944 and established himself as one of the most important directors in German theater.

During the time of National Socialism , Fehling was on the " Gottbegnadeten-Liste " ("Führer list") of the most important artists of the Nazi state. In 1935 he staged the play Thomas Paine by the "Nazi Bard" Hanns Johst (performance in the presence of Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels ).

Jürgen Fehling's gravestone.

After the war, Fehling founded the Jürgen Fehling Theater Society and presented Goethe's “ Urfaust ” in a cinema in Berlin-Zehlendorf in October 1945 . He was no longer able to gain a permanent foothold in a theater. With his new partner, the actress Joana Maria Gorvin , he moved to Munich and later to Hamburg . Its last premiere took place on September 27, 1952 in the Berlin Schillertheater : Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart with Gorvin in the title role and Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Elisabeth. Further staging projects failed in Frankfurt in 1953 and in Munich in 1959.

Jürgen Fehling suffered from a manic-depressive illness and was in clinical treatment until his death. He was buried in Hamburg at the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the immediate vicinity of Ida Ehre and Gustaf Gründgens .

Honor

Productions

literature

  • Michael Busch: Fehling, Jürgen . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 113-114 .
  • Catalog: Jürgen Fehling - Der Regisseur (1885–1968), exhibition at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, 1978
  • Kurt Fricke: Playing on the Abyss - Heinrich George. A political biography. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2000, pp. 149–152. ISBN 3-89812-021-X

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Fehling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ A visit to the “Lübeck” regiment. In: Father-city sheets. Born in 1916, No. 11, issue of December 10, 1916, pp. 43–44.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) ( digitized version , University and State Library Düsseldorf ), No. 11728
personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehling, Jürgen Karl Geibel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1968
Place of death Hamburg