Lothar Schreyer

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Lothar Schreyer (born October 19, 1886 in Blasewitz near Dresden , † June 18, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer , dramaturge , painter and writer , expressionist playwright , narrator , essayist and poet . He also published under the pen name Angelus Pauper.

life and work

Lothar Schreyer - son of a landscape painter - studied law in Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1911 . From 1911 to 1918 he was dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 1919 he was the founder of the Berliner Kunstbühne and its director until 1921. From 1916 to 1926, Schreyer worked on Herwarth Walden's magazine Der Sturm as editor and editor. From 1917 to 1920 he directed the Sturm-Bühne in Berlin. Here he let the actors appear naked or with alienated masks and costumes in order to bring the completely natural or the totally constructed, but by no means the familiar to the stage. He was the author of the plays Jungfrau (1917), Meer, Sehnte, Mann (1918), Nacht (1916/17; 1919), Kreuzigung (1920) and Kindsterben (1921) (among others). From 1921 to 1923 he worked as a master and head of the stage class at the Bauhaus in Weimar , from 1924 to 1927 at the art school Der Weg in Berlin and Dresden.

In 1933 Schreyer converted to the Roman Catholic Church. Maria Laach became his spiritual home.

Schreyer was one of the 88 writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 . After World War II in 1945, he moved to Hamburg, where he lived as a freelance writer, artist and painter until his death in 1966. Numerous works of art can be found in Hamburg's churches and the surrounding area.

His numerous works on the subject of " Christian Art ", which cover the entire spectrum of sacred art, received great attention .

Publications

author
  • The visual arts of the Germans. History and contemplation . Hamburg and others: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt / Deutsche Hausbücherei, 1931
  • The Bamberg rider . Stalling, Oldenburg 1932
  • The mysticism of the Germans , 1933
  • Mrs. Uta in Naumburg . Stalling, Oldenburg 1934
  • The captured shine. From the works of Theophrastus Parazelsus , Caritasverlag, Freiburg i.Br., 1940
  • The falcon cry. Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen , novel, 1942 (new edition Anton Pustet, Graz 1961)
  • The threefold birth of God , 1947
  • Expressionist theater. From my memories . Toth, Hamburg 1948
  • New work by Fritz Schwerdt . In: THE MÜNSTER . No. 1-2 / 1953. Schnell + Steiner GmbH publishing house, Regensburg 1953
  • A millennium of German art. Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1954
  • Memories of Sturm and Bauhaus . Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich, 1956
  • The message of book illumination. From the first millennium of Christian art . Wittig, Hamburg 1956
  • Agnes and the she-wolf's sons. A process . Herder, Freiburg 1956
  • Lyonel Feininger. Documents and Visions , Munich, Langen-Müller, 1957
  • Christian art of the XX. Century in the Catholic and Protestant world. Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1959
  • The image of Christ and the art of the 20th century. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1960
  • Victory festival in Carthage . Herder, Freiburg 1961
  • Abstract Christian Art . Ars Liturgica, Maria Laach 1962
  • Anton Wendling . Aurel Bongers Publishing House, Recklinghausen 1962
editor
  • The storm. A memory book for Herwarth Walden and the artists from the Sturmkreis . Together with Nell Walden . Klein, Baden-Baden 1954.

literature

  • Waldemar Oehlke : German literature since Goethe's death and its foundations . Halle ad S., Max Niemeyer Verlag , 1921. pp. 615-618. (Oehlke deals with Schreyer's conception of expressionist poetry).
  • Brian Keith-Smith: Lothar Schreyer and Herwarth Walden . In: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch and Gerhard Finckh (eds.): The storm: essays . Wuppertal: Von-der-Heydt-Museum, 2012 ISBN 978-3-89202-082-0 pp. 323-340

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Hamann , Jost Hermand : Expressionism (= epochs of German culture from 1870 to the present, 5), Frankfurt 1977, p. 128 f.
  2. ^ Adolf Stock: The Cathedral of Mankind - Lothar Schreyer and the Christian Bauhaus. (mp3 audio, 5.9 MB, 6:28 minutes) In: Deutschlandfunk-Kultur broadcast “Religions”. June 16, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schreyer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, painter, writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Blasewitz near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1966
Place of death Hamburg