Otto CA zur Nedden

Otto Carl August to Nedden , usually only Otto CA zur Nedden , (* 18th April 1902 in Trier ; † 23. October 1994 in Dortmund ) was a German theater and musicologist , head of dramaturgy , college professor , playwright , nonfiction author and classics - Editor , whose most important work was Reclam's actor up to the 21st edition.

Life

Otto CA zur Nedden was born in Trier on April 18, 1902, the son of the District President Eduard zur Nedden . After studying musicology, literature and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Marburg and Freiburg , he received his doctorate in Marburg in 1925 with a dissertation on opera history . From 1920 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . Until 1930, zur Nedden worked as a freelance theater critic in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart until Martin Karl Hasse appointed him as an assistant at the musicological seminar at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Zur Nedden joined the NSDAP in January 1931 and founded the Tübingen branch of the Kampfbund for German Culture in July 1931 . From March 1933 he acted as the regional manager of the Gaus Württemberg-Hohenzollern and recommended himself for an honorary position in the Ministry of Culture. In addition to his ongoing habilitation process , he was appointed cultural advisor and received in May 1933; the service title "Government Council". Because of legal proceedings under Section 175 , with suspicion of homosexuality , zur Nedden had to give up this position after a few months. His habilitation thesis Contributions to the History of Music on the Upper Rhine was rejected as unsuitable by an external reviewer. But in April 1933 he submitted the first part of his new work, The Concerting Style, to the Philosophical Faculty . A stylistic principle of music history only handwritten and received the Venia Legendi on May 20, 1933 . In October 1933, zur Nedden tried to retire at the University of Freiburg, but this failed. He left the university and, thanks to party connections, became chief dramaturge at the German National Theater in Weimar, where he worked until 1944. He completed his habilitation at the beginning of the summer semester of 1936 at the University of Jena and worked there as a lecturer at the music and theater studies institute. It is believed that persistent rumors about Nedden's homosexual inclinations, despite his marriage in September 1936, prevented both his appointment as head of the music department in Joseph Goebbels ' Propaganda Ministry in Berlin and his appointment as professor. In 1939, zur Nedden tried again for a professorship, but the expert opinions of his colleagues on his scientific achievements and the quality of his work as a dramaturge were negative, although his political reliability was not in doubt. In August 1944, however, Jena University again requested him to be a professor, whereupon Nedden was appointed adjunct professor of music and theater studies on February 1, 1945 during the last months of the war .

In addition to his professional obligations, he made a name for himself from the age of 30 to old age with his own dramas as a playwright.

1937 held lectures on “racial problems of contemporary music care” to Nedden. In 1938 he was appointed director of the musicological seminar and the theater studies institute at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. On February 25, 1938, his comedy The Bull Goes Off was premiered in the Residenztheater in Munich . One of his secondary positions was that of the "Head of Department for Music and Stage Poetry" in the Gaupropagandaleitung Thuringia. In his work Drama and Dramaturgy in the 20th Century. Treatises on theater and contemporary theater studies , he propagated the “racial togetherness and blood relationship” of ancient Greek drama with Shakespeare and German classical music . In 1939 he published his dramaturgical adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta , which he described as the "best and most important anti-Semitic play in world dramatic literature " and also planned to make it into a film . His Marlowe arrangement was also part of the cultural program of the Degenerate Music exhibition . After the Marlowe filming could not be realized, however, his comedy The Bull Goes On 1940 was filmed by the UFA under the title Wedding Night .

In 1944 he was obliged to Germanize Norwegian students who were interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . Since 1945 he has held the post of General Secretary of the German Shakespeare Society .

After the Second World War and after losing a professorship, zur Nedden continued both his academic career and his work as a playwright. His denazification process dragged on for several years until 1949, also because there was public opposition to his discharge. Zur Nedden showed himself to be unreasonable about his NSDAP membership, as evidenced by a letter to Hans Egon Holthusen , who was also burdened by the Nazis , in which Zur Nedden only admits a verdict on those who experienced the Nazi era . After a change of subject, he was now mainly engaged in theater studies, worked at the opera school of the conservatory in Duisburg and headed the studio stage of the theater studies department at the University of Cologne . In 1957, zur Nedden initially worked as a lecturer and from 1961 as an adjunct professor for theater studies at the University of Cologne . In 1952 he took on the translation of the comedy The Servant of Two Gentlemen ( Carlo Goldoni ) by Friedrich Ludwig Schröder for the Reclam publishing house in Stuttgart , edited it and wrote a new epilogue , which can still be found in the Reclam reprints of the following decades . Also for Reclam, zur Nedden wrote afterwords to classic editions and since 1953 he was the editor of Reclam's actor (with Karl Heinrich Ruppel ), which saw numerous new editions up to the turn of the millennium. His own pre-war dramas have also been reissued.

Zur Nedden died on October 23, 1994 in Dortmund.

Works (selection)

Dramas

• Vanina Vanini. Acting . Das Werk, Stuttgart 1933 (based on a novella by Stendhal ) (first edition reproduced as an unsaleable manuscript; published in Coburg in 1934 under the title Vanina Vanini ).
• Ephialtes. A drama in five acts . The factory, Stuttgart 1933.
• The bull goes off. Comedy (based on a true story) in 3 acts (7 pictures) . The factory, Munich 1938.
• Sweeping the straw or what loves each other bites each other. Comedy in 3 acts . Das Werk, Munich 1940 (reproduced as an unsaleable manuscript; 1986 book edition by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• Stronger than death. Chamber play . 1942 (1986 book edition also under the title Kammerspiele by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• Manuel and Mario. A play from our time in 3 acts . Das Werk, Freiburg im Breisgau 1943 (reproduced as an unsaleable manuscript; 1986 book edition also under the title Kammerspiele by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• The Testament of Peace. A play about the inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel in 3 acts . 1947 (1973 book edition by Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen).
• The other verdict. Acting . 1948.
• Victory over life and death (Phaeton - Michelangelo). 2 one-act . 1949 (1985 book edition also under the title Monodramen by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• The hour of the decision. A world historical drama in 5 acts . 1951 (1987 book edition with Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). The legend of his life designed for the stage . 1954 (1958 book edition by Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen).
• The last day of vacation. A cheerful piece in 3 acts. Comedy . 1955 (1985 book edition with Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• Hadrian and Antinous. Acting . 1960. (1986 book edition also under the title one-act act by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• Eros and Thanatos. 3 chamber plays . 1961 (1986 book edition also under the title one-act play by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• The angel of the abyss. An apocalyptic fantasy in 3 acts . 1964 (1983 book edition with Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• Iceland trip or the process of a marriage. A play in 12 scenes . 1969 (1984 book edition by Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• The Hohenstaufen. Designed for the stage. Acting . 1971 (1975 book edition by Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen).
• Greek trip. Dramatic imagination . 1973 (1984 book edition with Interma-Orb-Verlags-Gruppe, Düsseldorf).
• The other verdict. The fate of Annemarie Bigotte . Interma Orb Publishing Group, Düsseldorf 1985.
• The bishop and the nuns. Drama in 5 acts followed by a satyr play . Interma Verlagsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf 1990.

Works of cultural history

• European accents. Speeches and essays . Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen 1968.
• Eleusis, the idea of ​​immortality among the Greeks . Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen 1971.
• The adventures of Heracles . Staats Verlag, Wuppertal-Barmen 1974.
• European accents. Cultural-historical considerations on major travel destinations . Interma Orb Publishing Group, Düsseldorf 1982.

Theater and musicological works

• Directory of all works by Felix Draeseke . E. Daily, Dresden 1924.
• Felix Draeseke. His life, his works and his artistic development. A contribution to Draeseke research . Self-published, Pforzheim 1925.
• Sources and studies on music history in the Upper Rhine region in the 15th and 16th centuries . Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel, 1931.
• The concerted style. A stylistic principle in music history . 1933 [allegedly not in print].
• Drama and Dramaturgy in the 20th Century. Treatises on theater and contemporary theater studies . Triltsch Verlag, Würzburg 1940.
• Missa in summis. With rev. Report. Heinrich Finck. Published by the Music Institute of the University of Tübingen under the direction of. Karl Hasse. With a foreword by F. Blume, K. Hasse u. O. to Nedden . Möseler Verlag , Wolfenbüttel 1955.
• Imre Madách . The tragedy of man. A Hungarian fist poem . Self-published, Duisburg 1957.
• Dramaturgy as a science . Duisburg Society of Theater Friends, Duisburg 1962.
• The art of the fugue of the theater. 12 preludes and fugues for the stage . Interma Orb Publishing Group, Düsseldorf 1982.

Festschriften by and about him

• Otto Carl August zur Nedden (Ed.): Festschrift for the ceremonial reopening of the renewed house, Wednesday, May 22, 1940 . Published on behalf of the Generalintendanz des Deutschen. Weimar National Theater. G. Uschmann, Weimar 1940.
• Eike Pies: Otto Carl August zur Nedden. Celebration for the 68th birthday . (= Contributions to theater studies. Vol. 2), Bensberg-Frankenforst 1970.
• Eike Pies: Otto Carl August zur Nedden. Ceremony with bibliography . Bensberg-Frankenforst 1977.
• Eike Pies: Otto Carl August zur Nedden. Complete bibliography published on the occasion of Otto Carl August zur Nedden's 80th birthday . interma-orb publishing group, Düsseldorf 1982.

Editing

• Music and nation . Series of publications from the musicological seminar at the Friedrich Schiller University. Triltsch Verlag, Würzburg 1936–1943.
• Series of publications of the musicological and dramaturgical seminar of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . Merseburger & Co, Leipzig undated
• The national theater . 10 volumes. Würzburg, Triltsch Verlag 1936–1944.
• Otto Erler and the German stage. On the occasion of the poet's 70th birthday on August 4, 1942. Published by the Generalintendanz of the German National Theater . Weimar 1942.
• Memorandum for the resumption of their activities in the British occupation zone of Germany German Shakespeare Society (German Shakespeare Society). Founded in Weimar in 1864 . Edited by Walter Thomas , Otto Zur Nedden. German Shakespeare Society, Freienohl i. W. 1946.
• Carlo Goldoni: The servant of two masters. Comedy in 2 acts . Revised and introduced by Otto Carl August zur Nedden. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1952.
• Georg Büchner : Woyzeck . A fragment. Leonce and Lena . Comedy . Edited and with an afterword by Otto Carl August zur Nedden. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1952.
• Karl-Heinrich Ruppel, Otto CA zur Nedden (Ed.): Reclams actor . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1953.
• August von Kotzebue : The German small townspeople . Comedy in 4 acts . With an afterword by Otto Carl August zur Nedden. (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 90), Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1956.
• William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors . In 5 elevators . From the English. German by Wolf Heinrich Graf Baudissin . Revised and with an afterword by Otto CA Zur Nedden. (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 273), Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1959.

Filmography

• 1940: wedding night (template: the bull goes , comedy)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (=  The time of National Socialism . No. 17153 ). Completely revised edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , Nedden, p. 388 .
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 818
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Justus H. Ulbricht : "Goethe-Schiller University Jena-Weimar"? The Salana in the political and intellectual network of the twin cities. A sketch . In: Uwe Hoßfeld , Jürgen John , Oliver Lemuth, Rüdiger Stutz (eds.): "Combative Science". Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 , p. 321-360 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Christina Richter-Ibáñez: "[...] especially German": Karl Hasse's career as a musicologist in Tübingen and the (re-) habilitation of his assistant Otto zur Nedden. (PDF; 902.8 kB) Contribution to the annual conference of the Society for Music Research Halle / Saale 2015 - "Musicology: the sub-disciplines in dialogue". In: schott-campus.com. Wolfgang Auhagen, Wolfgang Hirschmann , 2016, accessed on February 27, 2017 . 
5. ↑ The 12 years in the Prinzregententheater. 1938. In: theodor-frey.de. Theodor Frey, accessed on February 27, 2017 (taken from the website of the Residenztheater, where it has since been deleted). 
6. ^ Otto CA zur Nedden: Drama and Dramaturgy in the 20th Century. Treatises on contemporary theater and theater studies (=  Das Nationaltheater. Series of publications by the Theater Studies Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . Volume IV ). 3rd improved and enlarged edition. Konrad Triltsch Verlag, Würzburg 1944, p. 3 (main title page).
7. ↑ to Nedden . In: Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1943 . Walter de Gruyter & Co. , Berlin 1943, Sp. 778-779 .
8. ↑ Nicolas Berg : Self-Nazification of a Complicity. The history of Hans Egon Holthusen's SS confession and his controversy with Jean Améry . In: Werner Konitzer (Hrsg.): Moralization of the law. Continuities and discontinuities of National Socialist normativity (=  yearbook [...] on the history and effects of the Holocaust ). Campus Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50168-0 , reactions to Holthusen's Merkur text, p. 223 ff .
9. ↑ Volker Kapp, Frank-Rutger Hausmann, Stefani Arnold, Christine Asiaban (eds.): Bibliography of German translations from Italian from 1730 to 1990 (=  bibliography of German translations from Italian from the beginnings to the present . Volume II / 1 A – Goldoni). Max Niemeyer Verlag , Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-50331-9 , Goldoni, Carlo, 4450.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto CA zur Nedden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto CA zur Nedden at filmportal.de