Ludwig Koerner

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Ludwig grains , actually Louis Vivegnis (* 22. December 1890 in Großenbaum ; † 2. March 1968 in Berlin ) was a German actor , director and trade union functionary .

Life

Körner received lessons from private tutors, as his father worked as a foreman abroad for many years. After graduating from school, Körner first worked as a businessman and soon devoted himself to acting. Körner began his acting career on April 5, 1913 at the city theater in Memel . He then belonged to the ensembles in Sondershausen , Bamberg and Stralsund (1917/18). During the First World War , Körner did temporary military service and after the end of the war in 1918 got an engagement at the Praise Theater in Breslau and shortly afterwards at the Reinhardt-Bühnen in Berlin . He also worked as an actor in films.

Körner became deputy director of the theater in der Josefstadt in 1924 and also worked there as an actor and director. In 1925, Körner became director of the Wiener Kammerspiele , which entered into a cooperation with the Theater in der Josefstadt during his tenure, which continues to this day.

In Berlin, from 1928 on, Körner worked as a senior theater manager, administrative director and actor at the Saarlandstrasse Theater and the German Art Theater. From 1934, Körner was deputy president of the German Stage Members' Cooperative (GDBA), of which he had been a member since 1914. Körner was a supporting member of the SS and from 1937 a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,919,698).

Körner rose to an influential theater functionary at the time of National Socialism . He held the functions of deputy manager at the Reichstheaterkammer and worked for the president there as a special representative for social issues. From April 5, 1938 to April 21, 1942, Körner was President of the Reich Theater Chamber and was also appointed Reich Culture Senator in April 1938 . In his function as a theater official he was responsible for the exclusion of Jews and politically unpopular people from the artists' association. In April 1942, Körner resigned from office as President of the Reich Theater Chamber, whether voluntarily or for financial reasons or because of differences in personnel decisions is not certain. The resignation from office was probably related to accusations of Hans Hinkel , who accused Körner of "incorrect and autocratic administration".

"He played the little dictator in his field."

- Joseph Goebbels on Ludwig Körner : Diary entry from August 4, 1942.

In 1943, Körner was excluded from the NSDAP. As a result, Körner, who also worked as a functionary for the social security of his fellow actors, was again active as an actor in the theater and film in Berlin.

After the end of the Second World War , Körner became managing director in 1951 and chairman in 1953 of the re-established cooperative of German stage employees at the Berlin regional association. His role as a theater official during National Socialism played no role in the Federal Republic of Germany; he was fully rehabilitated by 1950, which met with incomprehension among many cultural workers returning from exile. In 1953, Körner received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works (selection)

Filmography

  • 1920: The night and the corpse
  • 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress
  • 1921: On the red cliff
  • 1922: The woman with the 10 masks. 4th incident: The house of the notorious
  • 1922: wilderness
  • 1922: The old Gospodar
  • 1923: Maud, the great sensation
  • 1936: The hour of temptation
  • 1943: The black robe
  • 1944: The Trombonist (WP: 1949)

Honors

  • Large gold GDBA badge of honor
  • President of the German stage club in Berlin
  • Honorary member of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna
  • 1953 Receipt of the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

  • German Stage Yearbook 1939 . Theater history year and address book, 50th year 1939. Ed. from the Reichstheaterkammer, Berlin 1939. p. 90
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 376.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Second volume. Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960. p. 1054
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 870.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  • Rainer Theobald:  Körner, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 377-388 ( digitized version ).
  • Walter Wiclair: Personnel structures Berlin 1933 to 1945 and 1950 to 1962. In HG Asper (Hrsg.): In the limelight of the dark years. Essays on theater in the “Third Reich”, exile and post-war , Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1989, pp. 57–66
  • Joseph Wulf : Theater and Film in the Third Reich , Gütersloh 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ all classical sources, including Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1939, which contains a detailed article on the occasion of its 25th stage anniversary, Wilhelm Kosch's Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Kürschner's biographical theater manual and Glenzdorf's international film dictionary confirm this date, while Klee and Theobald the dates nowhere else given October 22nd resp. Call December 28th
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1939, p. 90
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Rainer Theobald:  Körner, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Kammerspiele on www.stadt-wien.at
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 293.
  6. ^ Katrin Sieg : Winnetou in Bad Segeberg. In: Martina Tißberger u. a. (Ed.): Weiß - Weißsein - Whiteness , Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang, 2009, p. 149
  7. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 293.
  8. ↑ cf. Walter Wiclair: Personnel structures Berlin 1933 to 1945 and 1950 to 1962. In HG Asper (Hrsg.): In the limelight of the dark years. Essays on theater in the “Third Reich”, exile and post-war , Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1989, pp. 57–66.
personal data
SURNAME Koerner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vivegnis, Louis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and union official
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Tree
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd, 1968
Place of death Berlin