Otto Nebelthau

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Otto Wilhelm Nebelthau (born April 10, 1894 in Bremen , † December 16, 1943 in Bosnisch Novi / Bosnia) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Born in Bremen in 1894 as the son of Friedrich Nebelthau (lawyer and Bremen Senator) and Marie Nebelthau (née Hoffmann), Otto Nebelthau began as an actor in 1913 at the Volks- und Residenzbühne Vienna. Postponed from military service as a war volunteer due to a recently overcome pneumonia , he worked for about a year, from 1914 to mid-1915, as an actor at the Dresden Court Theater , where he developed a long-term friendship with Hermine Körner . From the summer of 1915 until his conscription to the military in October 1916, he studied medicine in Berlin. Wounded in the Battle of Flanders in 1917 , he was discharged from the army in 1918.

In the spring of 1919, he and Hermine Körner took over the management of the Münchener Schauspielhaus (the later Münchener Kammerspiele ). In the summer of 1923 he worked as a director at the Theater Guild in New York. From the end of 1924 he worked as a freelance writer, until 1927 in Berlin, then in South Tyrol (Brixen: 1927–1929, Meran: 1930–1934) before settling in the small village of Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance in 1934, where he also worked as Fruit and vegetable grower.

When the war began in 1939, at the age of 45, he was drafted as a medical sergeant. From 1940 he was war correspondent and special commander of a propaganda company. In this role he took part as an observer in the staging of the signing of the French armistice in the Compiègne saloon car . In December 1943 he fell near Bosnisch Novi (Bosnia).

Services

In addition to historical novels and children's books (some of which are illustrated by Else Wenz-Viëtor ), Otto Nebelthau also wrote advisory literature ( Mein Gemüsegarten , Mein Obstgarten , Vom heiteren Koch ). The non-fiction books were published several times in the Federal Republic of Germany even after 1945.

The literary scholar Horst Denkler counted Nebelthau among the representatives of the "lost generation" of the Third Reich . He emphasizes that in the novel The Actress (1939), in which there are striking biographical parallels between the author and the hero of the novel, art movements with Viennese Modernism and Expressionism are described that run counter to the aesthetics of National Socialism. "That Nebelthau ... with his apparently indiscreet book succeeded in radically transgressing boundaries, which - camouflaged by the cultivated form of the bohemian artist - impressively visualized what has been repressed by cultural policy, can be established without a doubt and is worth remembering."

Works

  • The city of clouds and winds: a business novel from Bremen. Hanseatic Publishing House, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig 1928.
  • Captain Thiele: A historical novel from our day. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig 1929.
  • The Gardener and the Statue: The Story of a Love. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig 1930.
  • The ride to Canossa. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1933.
  • My Vegetable Garden: A Useful Lesson. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1934.
  • My orchard: Described for everyone's benefit [Ill .: Hans J. Peters ]. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1935.
  • On cheerful cooking: Recipe and reading book for the sophisticated kitchen [Ill .: Rudolf Schlichter ]. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1936. New edition [Ill .: Else Wenz-Viëtor ]: Heimeran Verlag, Munich 1949.
  • How brightly colorful this crowd is !: Poems [Ill .: Else Wenz-Viëtor ]. J. Scholz Publishing House, Mainz 1938.
  • The actress: a theatrical novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Little Frieder: New gifts for children [Ill .: Maria Herrmann]. J. Scholz Publishing House, Mainz 1939.
  • The good robbers: poems [Ill .: Else Wenz-Viëtor ]. J. Scholz Publishing House, Mainz 1939.
  • The night child [Ill .: Else Wenz-Viëtor ]. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 1942.
  • Het nachtkindje [Ill .: Else Wenz-Viëtor ; Translated from: Theodorus FM Vrijdag]. De Pelgrim, Eindhoven 1943.

literature

  • Horst Denkler: Ruined works, ruins of life: literary traces of the "lost generation" of the Third Reich (pp. 77–80). Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-484-32127-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Lührs (1967). Bremen biography, 1912-1962 . Bremen: Hauschild Verlag.
  2. ↑ Otto Nebelthau (1941). In the Compiègne forest. The Inner Empire : Journal for Poetry, Art and German Life , Vol. 8 (5), pp. 251–260.
  3. ↑ Otto Nebelthaus tombstone in the Bremen-Riensberg cemetery
  4. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. Bremen 1951. p. 254. Digitized version of the 2013 new edition
  5. ↑ Horst Denkler: Ruined works, life rubble: literary traces of the "lost generation" of the Third Reich. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2006, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Nebelthau, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nebelthau, Otto Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1943
Place of death in Bosnian Novi / Bosnia