Ludwig Hardt

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Ludwig Hardt (born January 16, 1886 in Neustadt-Gödens ( East Friesland ); † March 7, 1947 in New York ) was a well-known, versatile speaker and reciter in Berlin, notable for his finely put together literary programs in which he read texts by Heine and many other classical and modern poets.

Life

As the son of a horse breeder, Ludwig Hardt was a teacher at the Reichers Drama School , a member of the Märkisches Wandertheater and, for a short time, lecturer for performing arts at the Deutsches Theater. Originally an actor, he switched to recitation around 1910 and has excelled in the field. As short as he was, as Elias Canetti noted, he would have been suitable as a jockey, and Canetti compared his bizarre behavior to ETA Hoffmann . Canetti and Hardt met in Berlin in 1928 and became friends in 1936 during his time in Vienna.

From 1933 he worked within the framework of the Jewish Cultural Association. In 1937 he went to Austria (where he first appeared in 1920/21), in 1938 to Czechoslovakia , and in 1939 to the USA . He lived in exile in Pacific Palisades, but could not build on his previous successes in the United States.

literature

  • Kurt Tucholsky: Rowohlt - Complete Edition Tucholsky, Reinbek, Hamburg 1995, vol. 3, p. 92 (1921); Vol. 4, pp. 185f. (1925) and p. 370 (1926)
  • Edwin Rollett :  Features. Ludwig Hardt. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 92/1923, April 21, 1923, p. 3 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  • Ludwig Hardt: Lecture book Ludwig Hardt . Enoch, Hamburg 1924.
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Thomas Blubacher : Paradise in difficult times. Artists and thinkers in exile in the Pacific Palisades area . Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-938045-57-2 , pp. 99-100.
  • Hedda Eulenberg : In the double happiness of art and life . The ferry, Düsseldorf
  • Hardt, Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 10: Güde – Hein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22690-X , pp. 187-190.
  • Ferdinand Ruigrok van de Werve: Colorful power in difficult times. Emmy Gotzmann a painter for the Berlin Secession 1881 - 1950 . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2015, pp. 81–91

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elias Canetti : Die Fackel im Ohr , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-596-25404-3 , pages 274-279
personal data
SURNAME Hardt, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reciter
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt-Gödens
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1947
Place of death new York