Georg Fuchs (writer)

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Johann Georg Peter Fuchs (born June 15, 1868 in Beerfelden , Odenwald , † June 16, 1949 in Munich ) was a German writer and theater director. His work includes commentaries, tragedies, experience reports and theoretical writings.

Life

Georg Fuchs came from an Evangelical Lutheran pastor family, he was a brother of Emil Fuchs . From 1890 to 1891 he studied German and art history at the University of Gießen and at the University of Leipzig . After dropping out of his studies, he lived in Munich and wrote music reviews for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . He was editor and employee of the Allgemeine Kunst-Chronik .

His first memorandum on cultural policy was published anonymously in 1892: What do the Hessians expect from their Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig? . Around 1900 he worked with Peter Behrens in the Darmstadt artists' colony in order to realize his reform ideas. In 1904 he returned to Munich.

From 1907 to 1909 he worked at the Munich Art Theater as a secretary and dramaturge. His goal was to overcome naturalism and to establish theater play as a secular cult act and an intoxicating community experience. Fuchs worked at the theater as director and dramaturge without being able to realize his ideas. In 1910 he founded the Volksfestspiel in Munich , which, according to his wishes, was supposed to represent a counter-world to the theater business, which was entangled in commercial interests.

In 1916 he tried in vain to establish a festival in Munich. In 1918 he founded the War Passion Play Syndicate , with which he promoted passion plays in the spirit of propaganda. His passion play Christ , performed in 1919, was later rewritten by him under the title The Savior .

conspiracy

In the course of the measures to dissolve the resident guard in 1921, he met Augustin Xavier Richert and was hired by him for the role of the Bavarian separatist. As part of a conspiracy , he took part in monthly meetings from the end of July 1922. The plan was to overthrow the Lerchenfeld-Köfering government and, from November 8, 1922, the Knilling government and detach Bavaria from the German Reich through French forces . The Bavarian state parliament was to be dissolved and a government with dictatorial powers with Gustav von Kahr , Ernst Pöhner and Franz Ritter von Epp was to be formed. The financing of the conspiracy went to Bund Wiking , the front organization of the Consul organization . Government architect Rudolf Schäfer (* 1885), received 35 million Reichsmarks, 28,500 gold marks adjusted for inflation. Kapitänleutnant Eberhard Kautter received 55 million Reichsmarks , 40,000 gold marks adjusted for inflation. In November 1922, General Staff Officer Major a. D. Karl Mayr appointed. Mayr asked for the date of the coup to be rescheduled and for further financial support. On February 28, 1923, the concern was presented to Ernst Röhm , kit master for the Black Reichswehr in Munich, whereupon Fuchs, the bandmaster Hugo Machhaus , editor Völkischer Beobachter , Freikorps Oberland , and the head of the Munich office of the Blücherbund , Johann Berger, were arrested.

In a trial before the People's Court from June to July 1923, chaired by Georg Neithardt , Fuchs was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 1927 he was released from prison.

Pardoned in 1928, Fuchs has lived as a freelance writer and publicist ever since.

Works

  • as editor: Ernst Elias Niebergall : Dramatic Works , Complete Edition, 1894, online
  • Till Eulenspiegel , Commentary, 1899
  • Manfred , tragedy, 1902
  • The Schaubühne of the future , 1904
  • Hyperion , 1905
  • German form , 1907
  • The revolution of the theater , 1909
  • We convicts, Memoirs of Cell Prisoner No. 2911 , 1931
  • Sturm und Drang in Munich at the turn of the century , 1936

literature

  • German Theater Lexicon . Volume 1. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 509
  • Fuchs, Johann Georg Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961,ISBN 3-428-00186-9, p. 678 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • DBE 3606
  • BBE 1586
  • Bavarian-German or Bavarian-French. A moral image of nationally active neglect. The high treason trial against Fuchs and his comrades before the Munich People's Court in June 1923 . Birk, Munich 1925
  • Wolfgang Beck: Fuchs, Georg . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 223 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blücherbund 1922/23. Creation and separation from the federal Oberland. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria (PDF; 8 kB).
  2. ^ Susanne Meinl, Dieter Krüger: The political way of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz. From free corps fighter to head of the intelligence service in the Federal Chancellery. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 42, issue 1, January 1994, p. 41 fn. 10 (see also Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz ).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Kosch, Carl Ludwig Lang, Konrad Feilchenfeldt: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. P. 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Johann Georg Peter (full name); Anselmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic, writer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Beerfelden
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1949
Place of death Munich