Comradeship of German artists

Comradeship evening on the occasion of the meeting of the Reichsfilmkammer in the comradeship of German artists in Berlin on March 4, 1938; From left Fita Benkhoff , Ewald von Demandowsky and Hilde Krüger , photo from the Federal Archives

The Kameradschaft der Deutschen Künstler (KDDK) was a National Socialist organization founded in 1934 with headquarters at Viktoriastraße 3–4 in Berlin , which had emerged from the League of National Socialist Stage and Film Artists of the later Reich set designer Benno von Arent since 1932. It primarily brought together performing artists, musicians and filmmakers, organized "comradeship evenings" and published a magazine called Blätter der Kameradschaft der Deutschen Künstler .

The association was one of the corporate members of the Reich Theater Chamber . According to the handbook of the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1937, the organization should “unite all artistically creative people on the basis of the performance principle to form a comradely community whose determining basis is the National Socialist worldview”.

Functionaries of the association included the actor Theodor Loos , the film dramaturge Ewald von Demandowsky , the musicologist Peter Raabe and the pianist Wilhelm Backhaus .

The lecture The Dog of Aubry , which Gustaf Gründgens gave to the comradeship of German artists in 1943, coined a culturally conservative and anti-French concept of theater.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism, Berlin: de Gruyter 2007, p. 345. ISBN 9783110928648