Reichstheaterkammer
The Ministry of Arts ( RTK ) was on 1. August 1933 founded and was one of seven individual compartments of the Reich Chamber of Culture under the Reich Chamber of Culture Law of 22 September 1933 and an instrument of cultural NS - DC circuit during the time of National Socialism .
organization
The theater department of the Propaganda Ministry oversaw the Reichstheaterkammer, which from 1936 was divided into seven areas:
- Legal and news issues
- organization
- Opera presentation
- Student council stage
- Artistry student council
- Student council dance
- Student council showman
The existing central associations of German theater life were incorporated into the RTK: Deutscher Bühnenverein , Cooperative of German Stage Members, Association of Artistic Stage Directors, German Choir Singers Association and Dancer Association. This was intended to bring German theater life into line.
Only members of the Reich Theater Chamber had the right to work in a theater profession in the German Reich. Proof of Aryan membership was a prerequisite for membership , so that Jewish actors could not be members of the Reichstheaterkammer from the outset. In order to be accepted at a drama school , an aptitude test had to be taken in the Reichstheaterkammer. Exclusions from the RTK amounted to a professional ban.
The presidential councils of the Reichstheaterkammer included Wolfgang Liebeneiner , Gustaf Gründgens , Lothar Müthel , Benno von Arent and Friedrich Bethge .
The official journal of the Reichstheaterkammer was published by Hans Knudsen under the title “ The Stage - Journal for the Design of German Theater ” in Wilhelm Limpert Verlag.
guide
President of the Reich Theater Chamber
- from founding until September 5, 1935 the actor Otto Laubinger .
- September 6, 1935 to April 4, 1938 Reich dramaturge Rainer Schlösser .
- April 5, 1938 to April 21, 1942 the actor and director Ludwig Körner .
- April 22, 1942 until the end of the war, the actor Paul Hartmann .
Vice-President of the Reich Theater Chamber
- from founding until September 5, 1935 the actor Werner Krauss .
- September 6, 1935 until the war ended, the actor Eugen Klöpfer .
executive Director
- from 1933 to 1935 Gustav Assmann
- In 1935 Alfred Frauenfeld became the managing director.
Country Manager
Country manager or deputy country manager were u. a. Robert Valberg (Vienna), Ulrich Bettac (Vienna, deputy), Otto Krauss , Walter Oehmichen (Swabia) and Gustav Rudolf Sellner .
literature
- Daiber, Hans : Showcase of the dictatorship. Theater in Hitler's sphere of influence . Günther Neske Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7885-0507-9
- Drewniak, Bogusław: The theater in the Nazi state. Scenario of contemporary German history 1933-1945 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983 ISBN 3-7700-0635-6