Renato Attilio Bleibtreu

Renato Attilio Bleibtreu (born July 17, 1893 in Vienna ; † spring 1964 there ) was an Austrian writer, playwright and director.

Life

Bleibtreu was born the son of actress Maximiliane Bleibtreu . Her sister Hedwig Bleibtreu was just like her parents an actor. His birthplace was probably a foundling house in the Alservorstadt , nothing is known of his father. Maximiliane Bleibtreu left her son in the foundling house and never saw her again. In 1901 Bleibtreu came to care in Linz, where he was taken in by the widow of a prison guard and with whom he stayed until 1910. His mother later married and was a “royal Saxon court actress” in Dresden , where she died in 1923.

In the 1930s, Bleibtreu lived as a freelance journalist with his first working wife and four children in Vienna's 2nd district. Her marriage to the butcher's daughter Helene Buchholt from Königsberg resulted in two daughters: Renate Bleibtreu , who works as a translator for August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman , among others , and the actress Monica Bleibtreu . After 1945 Renato Attilio directed a small private theater, Wiener Zimmerbühne , which was always close to bankruptcy , in Mödling near Vienna. Bleibtreu died in his hometown and was buried on May 13, 1964 in the Baumgarten cemetery.

The actor Moritz Bleibtreu is a grandson of Renato Attilio Bleibtreu.

On behalf of Hitler

At the beginning of November 1938, Bleibtreu visited Eduard Bloch's son-in-law , who, as a doctor to Adolf Hitler's mother in Linz, enjoyed the protection of the “Führer” as his “noble Jew”. Bleibtreu introduced himself as an official on Rudolf Hess's staff and was commissioned to collect documents, letters and pictures from Hitler's time in Austria and to interview eyewitnesses after the German troops marched into Austria. The documents seized by him were deposited in the main archive in Munich and permanently withdrawn from the public.

During his research, Bleibtreu learned that Eduard Bloch had two handwritten thank you cards from 1907 and 1908, and that Hitler was ready to show them to the Munich main archive. Bleibtreu then visited Bloch, who in turn tried to get back two cards that Hitler had painted and had already been confiscated by the Gestapo . Bleibtreu promised to stand up for Bloch's concerns. He also persuaded Bloch to write down his “memories of the Führer and his immortalized mother” for the Munich main archive. Bloch never received his cards again.

Bleibtreu and the NSDAP

According to the documents available, Bleibtreu applied several times to join the NSDAP , but never became a party member. After completing his “postcard campaign”, he developed the idea of ​​a patriotic compilation entitled The Year of the Germans , in which 350 leading writers and party people were to make contributions, and presented the concept to the NSDAP. On the grounds of the lack of reliability, the President of the Reich Chamber of Culture rejected Bleibtreu's proposal. On the other hand, in May 1939 the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps published a long inflammatory article entitled “ Attila stay true! “, In which Bleibtreu's stays in various prisons were addressed. In August 1940, Bleibtreu was finally identified by the Vienna Gestapo.

One of the main reasons why Bleibtreu never received the support of the NSDAP, despite all the ingratiation to the NSDAP, was that, as an illegitimate child with an unknown father, he could not provide an “ Aryan certificate ”.

It was also added that in 1934 he had published a book, Der Heldenkanzler , which glorified the then Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss . Dollfuss was murdered by the National Socialists.

Fonts

• -, Bernhard Vielkind (flower arrangements): love, life and people. Poems . Hebbelbund, Linz 1906. - Full text online .
• Hate song against Italy . Krenn, Vienna around 1915
• In the field hospital. Experiences and descriptions . Publishing house "Die Brücke", Vienna 1918.
• Bishop Rudigier. Eleven historical scenes . Linz 1931. - Full text printed in series in Linzer Volksblatt , year 1931, no.278 , no.279 , no.280 , no.281 , no.282 , no.283 , no.284 , no.285 , no.296 . 
• The hero chancellor. A song about the clod . Books of the Fatherland, Volume 2. Jung-Österreich-Verlag, Vienna 1934.
• From a German master (ie Renato Attilio Bleibtreu): Our Fey. A picture of the hero . Books of the Fatherland, Volume 1. Jung-Österreich-Verlag, Vienna 1934.

literature

• Brigitte Hamann : Hitler's noble Jew. The life of the poor doctor Eduard Bloch. Piper, Munich and Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05164-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Renato Attilio Bleibtreu in the catalog of the German National Library
• DÖW: Pictures by Bleibtreu
• http://www.stevenlehrer.com/images/thefamilydoctor.pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamann 2008, p. 339ff.
2. ↑ Hamann 2008, p. 359ff.
3. ↑ No longer anonymous. Photos from the ID card index of the Gestapo Vienna  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: doew.at , accessed on March 22, 2012.  
4. ↑ Johannes Ebner (ed.), Rudolf Zinnhobler (ed.): Bishop Rudigier - scene from the play v. Attilio Renato Bleibtreu . New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz, Volume 3, Issue 1, Linz 1984/85, pp. 15–19, online (PDF; 889 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.