Paul Rilla

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Celebration of the dead for Paul Rilla in AdK, Otto Nagel (right) and Wolfgang Harich keep vigil here

Paul Rilla (born December 26, 1896 in Neunkirchen / Saar , † November 5, 1954 in Rostock ) was a German journalist and literary scholar .

Live and act

Initially he worked in the field of journalism in Breslau , for which he oriented himself to the magazine Die Fackel by Karl Kraus . In 1918 he became head of the arts section of the Breslauer Latest News . He wrote primarily theater reviews, acted as an advocate for the Breslau theater and with his voice for the modern also manifested the spirit of the young Weimar Republic. He later worked as an editor in the Reclam publishing house in Leipzig and in the Propylaen publishing house in Berlin. During the National Socialist regime, the Reichsschrifttumskammer temporarily prohibited him from writing. He was also in contact with the Schulze-Boysen / Harnack group . In 1945 he took over the management of the culture department of the Berliner Zeitung and published the Dramaturgische Blätter from 1947 to 1948 . Monthly for poetry and the stage and stood out particularly as a literary critic, essayist and editor. In 1950 he became a member of the Academy of Arts . In the same year he was also awarded the GDR National Prize. In 1952 he moved from Berlin to Bad Doberan .

family

His parents were the railway engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Rilla and the actress Karoline founder. His brother was the actor and journalist Walther Rilla . He was married to Martina Rilla (* April 6, 1910, † April 22, 1990), who also looked after his estate. Both graves are located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Streets in Bad Doberan and Senftenberg were named after Paul Rilla.

Fonts

  • Theodor Fontane: Selected Works in Six Volumes , Leipzig (1928) (Foreword)
  • Gottfried Keller: Collected Writings in Eight Volumes , Leipzig 1929 (editor)
  • Gottfried Keller: His life in self-testimonies, letters and reports , Berlin 1943
  • Günther Weisenborn: Histories of Time , Berlin 1947 (preface)
  • Literature and Lüth, Eine Streitschrift , Berlin 1948
  • Goethe in the history of literature. On the problem of civic education , Berlin 1949
  • Literature. Criticism and Polemics , Berlin 1950
  • The narrator Anna Seghers, Anna Seghers on her 50th birthday on November 19, 1950 , Berlin 1950
  • JWvon Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast , Berlin 1950 (epilogue)
  • JWvon Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years , Berlin 1951 (epilogue)
  • Thomas Mann: Tristan: Novelle (= ReclamUB 6431), Leipzig 1951 (afterword)
  • Johannes R.Becher: Selection in six volumes , Berlin 1952 (introduction)
  • Gottfried Keller: The Green Heinrich , Berlin 1953 (Introduction)
  • Albert Maltz: fellow citizen writer. Contributions to the defense of true American culture against the imperialist spoilers , Berlin 1953 (introduction)
  • Festschrift for the 225th birthday of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on January 22, 1954 , Berlin 1954
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Collected Works in Ten Volumes , Berlin 1954–1958 (editor)
  • Essays . Critical contributions to literature, Berlin 1955
  • Johannes R, Becher: Perfection dreaming: Seals , Berlin 1955 (introduction)
  • Lessing and his age , obtained from the estate of Martina Rilla, Berlin 1960
  • From bourgeois to socialist realism . Essays, Leipzig 1967
  • Theater reviews , Berlin 1978 (Ed. By Liane Pfelling)
  • About Gottfried Keller . (= Diogenes-Taschenbuch 167), new edition Zurich 1978

literature

  • Lothar Creutz: (Obituary) in: Die Weltbühne 9 (1954), issue 46, pp. 1444–1446
  • Karla König: (Obituary) in: heute und Morgen 8 (1954), issue 12, pp. 722–724
  • Wolfgang Harich: Paul Rilla. Funeral speech. In: Sinn und Form 7 (1955), pp. 114–119
  • Hans Mayer: Paul Rilla. Commemorative speech. In: Sinn und Form 7 (1955), pp. 120-134
  • Johanna Rudolph: Paul Rilla-an uplifting critic. On the return of the day of his death. In: Weimar Contributions 1 (1955), Issue 3, pp. 344-350
  • Robert Weimann: Tradition and Originality. Historicity and topicality in the literary work of Paul Rilla. In: Sinn und Form 21 (1969), pp. 1475-1503
  • Kurt Bottcher. Writers of the GDR, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1975, pp. 459-460
  • Klaus Höpcke: Reading Brecht's praise for Paul Rilla. To literary criticism. In: Die Weltbühne 7 (1980)
  • Klaus Bohnen: Aspects of the Marxist Lessing reception (Mehring, Lukacs, Rilla). In: Herbert Georg Göpfert: Lessing's picture in history, Heidelberg 1981, pp. 115–120
  • Marek Ostrowski: Paul Rilla as a literary critic in the period after 1945, Posen 1985. (Diss.)
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon. 3rd ed., Vol. 13, Bern 1991, pp. 1-2
  • Manfred Brauneck : Author's Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the 20th Century, Reinbek 1995, pp. 649–650
  • Walther Killy: Literaturlexikon, Vol. 8, Berlin 1998, p. 312
  • Klaus Havemann: Bad Doberan remembers Paul Rilla with a street name. In: Ostseezeitung 48 (2000), 254, p. 14
  • Heiner Schmidt: Quellenlexikon zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Vol. 26, Duisburg 2001, pp. 202–203
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs u. a. (Ed.): Who was who in the GDR? A lexicon of East German biographies. 4th edition, Berlin 2006.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Vol. 8, Munich 2007, p. 422
  • Ludvika Gajek: The Breslau drama in the mirror of the daily press. The Praise Theater in the first five years of the Weimar Republic (1918–1923), Wiesbaden 2008, p. 14f.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Rilla, Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rilla, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1954
Place of death Rostock