Louis Scheuer

Louis Scheuer (born June 16, 1872 in Luxembourg ; died December 12, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German commercial school teacher , author , theater critic and composer.

Life

In Trier , Louis Scheuer founded his commercial "Scheuer private school" at Fleischstrasse 68 around 1893, which was considered the best in town. In 1894 his name appeared for the first time at the events of the Trier Carnival Society Heuschreck . With a “brilliant and polished pen” he wrote poems and prose works in Trier Platt , in High German and Letzeburgisch .

Scheuer's activities weren't just limited to the carnival. He also wrote singing plays , revues and plays . His pieces were in Germany, but also u. a. performed in Amsterdam , Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Poland . One of his best works is the music revue Mein Trier, how I love you! . The music for this revue is considered lost.

Since 1910, around 3,000 performances of his revues and Singspiele have been achieved at home and abroad (as far as New York City ). His burlesque farce "The moral apostles" was performed about 1,200 times. “The rattle stork flies” even brought it to 1,300 performances, including in the Millowitsch Theater ( Cologne ) and in Luxembourg.

During the First World War , his work Die Juxquelle was sent to the Trier soldiers. The font contained the complete texts of his revues from 1898 to 1903.

With the beginning of National Socialism , the popular Trier Jew Louis Scheuer got into trouble. In 1934 he was excluded from the German culture. The big cities banned performances of his works. But the Trier family kept him friends for a long time, but later had to close the theater to Scheuer. His works were only played in Luxembourg.

In 1936, Scheuer also had to close his renowned private school and fled to Frankfurt with his wife. But in the Jewish theater there, the “Volksbühne”, his play Ewige Wander [Eternal Migration] or the Three Stars was no longer performed. It dealt with the fate of three Jewish families. SA hordes destroyed large parts of his documents and also the valuable decorations on the Night of the Reichspogrom (November 1938).

Since his wife was of Christian faith and not a Jew, Scheuer was able to evade deportation with a lot of luck , even though he was already on the list.

The rest of his documents were finally lost due to British bombers, so that after the war there was no longer any possibility of starting a new career.

Works

• The source of fun. An inexhaustible fountain of funny foolishness. Lectures, songs, stage performances. The best of the best from the archive of the carnival society "Heuschreck" Trier, self-published, Trier 1908.

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Scheuer in the catalog of the German National Library