Jud Süss (Cornfield)
Jud Süss. Tragedy in three acts and an epilogue is a tragedy by Paul Kornfeld .
The play was premiered on October 7, 1930 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin . Directed by Leopold Jessner , the actors were Ernst Deutsch , Erich Ponto , Otto Wernicke , Hilde Körber and Lotte Lenya (as Frau Götz). The stage set designed by Caspar Neher .
Apart from the world premiere, the play was only staged once before the Second World War, namely at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg under the direction of Josef Glücksmann. Arnold Marlé played the title role . The only surviving copy of the text, which was thought to be lost until 1987, also comes from this production. The NS regime had liquidated the stage publisher Oesterheld & Co., where the play had been published, and destroyed the stocks. The author Paul Kornfeld died in 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź).
The first re-performance took place on November 22, 1987 at the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg under the direction of Hansjörg Utzerath .
expenditure
- Oesterheld, Berlin 1930, II + 101 pp. (Stage manuscript)
- Hans-Jürgen Weitz: Three Jewish Dramas. With documentation for the reception. Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt vol. 69. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89244-116-2 , pp. 358–378
- Theater heute vol. 29, issue 2 (February 1988) pp. 29–55
- Stage manuscript in Rowohlt Theaterverlag
literature
- Lotte Lenya. An autobiography in pictures. Edited by David Farneth, Cologne 1999, p. 68
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Weitz: Three Jewish dramas. P. 9f
- ^ Paul Kornfeld: Stage manuscript - Jud Süss. (No longer available online.) Rowohlt Theaterverlag , 1929, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 29, 2012 . ( 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.
