Otto Erler

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Otto Erler (born August 4, 1872 in Gera , † October 8, 1943 in Dresden ) was a German playwright .

Life

Born as the son of a forensic surgeon, Erler studied German and modern languages ​​in Marburg and Berlin after attending secondary school in Gera . During his studies in 1892 he became a member of the Arminia Marburg fraternity . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. Erler was initially a high school professor . As a representative of the Völkisch movement , he wrote the anti-Semitic tragic comedy Ehekünstler in 1903 . He was married to Eva Ziegler, the sister of Hans Severus Ziegler .

In the era of National Socialism , he was, according to the kingdom playwrights Rainer locks the Nazi movement close. After the performance of Thors Gast , Goebbels judged on October 31, 1937: “ A dramatized Rosenberg program . ", But considered the piece to be" completely leaky and completely inartistic ". Nevertheless, it was prominently promoted in theater programs, for example at the Salzburg City Theater, where it was performed on February 1, 1939 "To celebrate the anniversary of the seizure of power".

Erler died on October 8, 1943 in the Dresden theater after the previous premiere of his play Die Blutsfreunde . The Rosenberg office described him in an obituary as the " playwright of the German nation ".

In the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 Erler's works Die Blutsfreunde (Verlag Sigrune, Erfurt 1943), Not Gottes . (Verlag Sigrune Erfurt 1943), Thor and the Krist (Verlag Sigrune Erfurt 1942) added to the list of literature to be sorted out.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Giants. Artist tragedy in 3 acts. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1901, (stage manuscript).
  • The Bundschuh. Drama from the peasant wars. In three elevators. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1904 (music by Waldemar von Baußnern ).
  • The Married Artists. Tragic comedy in 3 acts. Koch, Dresden & Leipzig 1904, (stage manuscript).
  • Tsar Peter. Drama in 4 acts. Callwey, Munich 1905.
  • Struensee. Drama in 5 acts. Haessel, Leipzig 1916 (later title: The angel from Engelland. ).
  • The tragic problems of the Struensee material. A consideration of Hebbel's treatise. Haessel, Leipzig 1916.
  • Amerongen. A seal. Matthes & Thost, Leipzig et al. 1922.
  • The gallows rope. A comedy in 3 acts. Haessel, Leipzig 1924, (stage manuscript).
  • Marfa. Drama in 4 acts. Haessel, Leipzig 1930
  • Marfa-Demetrius. A study. Haessel, Leipzig 1930.
  • Thor's guest. Stage work in 3 lifts. Haessel, Leipzig 1937.
  • The sciences. A comedy. Fink, Weimar 1938.
  • Need of God. Sigrune publishing house, Erfurt 1942;
  • The blood friends. Sigrune publishing house, Erfurt 1943.

literature

  • Otto CA zur Nedden (Ed.): Otto Erler and the German stage. On the occasion of the poet's 70th birthday on August 4, 1942 . German National Theater, Weimar 1942.
  • Hans Severus Ziegler : From the work of German poets of recent times . Verl. D. "Research questions of our time" Lienau, Zeven 1957. (= H. 1., The playwright Otto Erler: Weg und Werk )
  • Felix Zimmermann: The playwright Otto Erler . Böhlau Verlag , Weimar 1944.
  • The little encyclopedia . Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, volume 1, page 458.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 174-175.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 140.
  2. ↑ On this piece cf. Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 234f., 565.
  3. ^ Stadttheater Salzburg, program booklet (season 1938/1939), issue 6, insert without page number.
  4. ^ List of the literature to be removed from April 1, 1946
personal data
SURNAME Erler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1943
Place of death Dresden