Paul Eger
Paul Felix Eger (born January 23, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died April 9, 1947 in Lucerne ) was an Austrian-Swiss writer, director and artistic director.
Life
Paul Eger was a son of the Jewish natural scientist Leopold Eger and Helene Mattesdorfer. He was also a Swiss citizen by birth. His younger brother was the director Rudolf Eger , with whom he converted to Protestantism in 1903 .
Eger married the actress and singer Herta Alsen, their son was Kurt Jung-Alsen, born in 1915 . In the 1920s he married the opera singer Valesca Nigrini for the second time .
Eger studied art history, German literature and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1905 with the dissertation The book illustration in the age of German classics . From 1908 to 1912 he was dramaturge and director at the Royal German State Theater in Prague , from 1912 General Director of the Court Theater and Court Music at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Darmstadt , and from 1918 to 1926 director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . In 1926 he directed the Teatro alla Scala . In 1926 he was appointed to the directorate of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin and was artistic advisor to Max Reinhardt's theaters . Eger became a board member of the German Stage Association . From 1932 to 1938 Eger was director of the New German Theater in Prague . Eger campaigned for the emigrants from the German Reich.
Eger went to Switzerland in 1939, where he staged operas and dramas as a guest at the Basel City Theater . From 1942 he was director of the Lucerne City Theater . There he directed the world premieres of Ralph Benatzky's Herr und Frau Nord and Tilla Durieux 's drama Zagreb 1945 in 1946 .
Eger wrote plays himself.
Works
- Mnesis. A fairy tale game . Leipzig, 1901
- In the fall . Drama. Dresden, 1902
- Operetta. Eight scenes from the life of an actress . Vienna, 1905
- Mandragola . Comedy. Berlin, 1906
- Adam, Eve and the snake . Comedy. Leipzig, 1916
- In the Gasthof zum Schwanen . Comedy. Munich, ca.1924
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 50.
- Eger, Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , p. 237.
- Thomas Blubacher : Paul Eger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 516 f.
- J. Ludvová: Eger, Paul . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
- Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T – Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5 by Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 431.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Eger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Leopold Eger , at DNB
- ↑ Nigrini, Valesca . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, p. 17762
- ↑ On the time of the artistic director in Hamburg see also the Wikipedia article Deutsches Schauspielhaus # Das Schauspielhaus in the Weimar Republic . However, the criticism there of Egers' artistic director is completely unfounded.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eger, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eger, Paul Felix (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Swiss writer, director and general manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1947 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |