Lotte Brill

Lotte Brill (born 1907 in Strasbourg in Alsace ; died after 1936 ) was a German costume and set designer .

Life

Lotte Brill came from a well-known family of painters, of whose members Matthäus Brill and especially Paulus Brill made a name for themselves in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries through their work.

Brill initially worked at the Saarbrücken art school with Fritz Grewenig , where she designed portraits, blankets and wall hangings as well as embroidery and also executed them herself. From 1925 she was a student in the class of Josef Hillerbrand at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich . There she created wallpapers, fabrics, behind-glass paintings, stage sets, costumes and frescoes.

Presumably Brill was also a student of Lotte Pritzel . Her work was artistically influenced by Walter Schnackenberg .

In May 1931 Lotte Brill set up the opera Sleeping Beauty Awakening at the Saarbrücken City Theater . Because of their strong stage talent was always used more frequently to collaborate for equipment such as for the opera La clemenza di Tito by Mozart or Xerxes by Handel .

In 1924 Brill received the order to furnish the later so-called Reichsfestspiele in Heidelberg , for which she made the costumes for the Broken Jug and the Midsummer Night's Dream as well as all the furnishings for Lanzelot and Sanderein . In 1935 Lotte Brill worked again for the Handel Festival in Göttingen .

At the time of National Socialism , Brill took part in the art competitions of the 1936 Olympic Games . At the beginning of the same year, probably partly out of envy, a denunciation was launched against the artistic director Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard because of his homosexuality , which led to extensive investigations by the Berlin Gestapo . Thereupon Lotte Brill married the homophile theater manager on March 20, 1936 in a marriage of convenience "to save him from prison." The couple moved into a house in Grunewald . The event was dubbed the "Olympic Wedding" in the newspapers, which was reported by the Völkischer Beobachter among others .

In the mid-1930s, Brill's designs were praised for “the colorful boldness and particularly good knowledge of materials”. Brill would “deliberately avoid anything purely decorative” and instead show “an interesting combination of historical-theatrical forms in a stage-like revaluation”.

Collections

Brill's works can be found in the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken, in the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation and in a private collection in Bern .

Fonts

• Happy, free happy people. Festival in the Olympic Stadium August 18-28, 1938. Berlin Summer Festival, organized by the Reich capital. Overall artistic direction: Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard. With drawings by Lotte Brill. Berlin 1938.

literature

• N / A : The stage design (Lotte Brill). In: The stage. Journal for the design of the German theater with the official announcements of the Reichstheaterkammer. 1st year H. 2 v. November 15, 1935, pp. 38-39; as a PDF document on the dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} o. V .: The stage design (Lotte Brill). In: The stage. Journal for the design of the German theater with the official announcements of the Reichstheaterkammer. Vol. 1, H. 2, November 15, 1935, pp. 38-39; as a PDF document on the dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl site
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bernd Dürr: Lotte Brill on the page galerie-bernd-duerr.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 22, 2020
3. ↑ Dance Journal. Issues 4–6, Kieser Verlag, 2006, p. 22; limited preview in Google Book search
4. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Koch-Hillebrecht : Homo Hitler: Psychogram of the German dictator. Siedler, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-75603-0 , p. 352; limited preview in Google Book search