Moriz Seeler

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Moriz Seeler (around 1930)
Memorial plaque in Brandenburgische Strasse 36, Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Moriz Seeler (born March 1, 1896 in Greifenberg in Pomerania as Moritz Seeler ; deported to the Riga ghetto on August 15, 1942 ) was a German theater director, writer, film producer and victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Moritz Seeler aspired to study art and literary history as a high school graduate, but was first drafted into the First World War as a soldier . Discharged from military service in 1916, he stayed in Berlin and wrote poems and skits and frequented Berlin's literary cafés such as the Romanisches Café . Else Lasker-Schüler dedicated the prose text by Hans Heinrich von Twardowsky to him in 1920 . Seeler wrote for the magazine Der Feuerreiter . He founded in 1922 and until 1926 headed the “Junge Bühne”, which organized performances in Sunday matinees for young actors in established theaters without permanent staff. Arnolt Bronnen's patricide made the series known in 1924 when a theater scandal broke out. A number of actors, directors and playwrights found their way into a career through productions by the “Junge Bühne”; in 1926, Seeler produced the Berlin premiere of Baal with Bertolt Brecht . Marieluise Fleißer's Purgatory in Ingolstadt was premiered by Seeler in 1926, as was Hans Henny Jahnn's The Coronation of Richard III. and in 1924 Carl Zuckmayer's Pankraz awakens or Die Hinterwäldler .

In 1927 he wrote texts for Friedrich Hollaender's cabaret program Bei Uns um die Gedächtniskirche , which he brought to the stage in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm with Anni Mewes , Marion Palfi , Martin Kosleck , Hubert von Meyerinck and Willi Schaeffers .

Participants set Seeler and-run production company "Film Studio 1929" was quasi-documentary silent film in 1929 people on Sunday made the movie poster pointed Moritz Seeler Director, Robert Siodmak Director, Billie Wilder manuscript, Eugen Schüfftan camera from another, unnamed on the poster people were Curt Siodmak , Edgar G. Ulmer and Fred Zinnemann . Apart from Valeska Gert and Kurt Gerron, the actors were amateurs. Seeler also participated in the artistic realization.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Seeler fled to Prague and Vienna in 1933 , but returned to the German Reich in 1935 as he could not find a job. There he worked in stage productions with Agnes Straub and Günther Weisenborn , which were still halfway tolerated , and worked for the Jewish Cultural Association of Rhine-Ruhr . From 1938 he stayed in Berlin again without being able to work in the theater, but was then used as a forced laborer. Seeler was briefly arrested during the November pogroms in 1938 . Since 1941 he was on the Berlin deportation list for the Auschwitz concentration camp . From Berlin Seeler was in the on August 15, 1942 Riga ghetto deported and was one of many who were murdered there.

Moritz Seeler. Graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Greifenberg. 1915

Works

  • The tide . Lanyi, Vienna 1937.

Honor

Moritz Seeler-Gasse in Vienna
  • In 1969 in Vienna - Favoriten , the 10th district of the city, the Moritz-Seeler-Gasse was named in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost . In addition, since 2002 there has been a Moritz-Seeler-Strasse in the Media City of the Berlin-Adlershof development area.

literature

  • Günther Elbin: On Sunday to the matinee . Persona-Verlag, Mannheim 1998, ISBN 3-924652-27-9 .
  • Ulrike Krone-Balcke:  Seeler, Moritz (Moriz). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 147 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Literatur-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch , XVII, 1997, p. 268.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2, Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1068 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 312.
  • Wolfgang Jacobsen: "Moriz Seeler must be enough for you, gentlemen!" A portrait . Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-086-5 .
  • Tom Riebe (Ed.): Moriz Seeler. Versensporn - Booklet for lyrical charms No. 24, Edition POESIE SCHMECKT GUT, Jena 2016.

Web links

Commons : Moriz Seeler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Omasta: Allow me, the name is Moriz! , in: Falter weekly newspaper , Vienna, No. 37/2017, September 13, 2017, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Seeler, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seeler, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifenberg in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH after August 15, 1942
Place of death Riga ghetto