Richard Duschinsky

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Richard Duschinsky (born July 23, 1897 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1990 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian playwright.

Life

Richard Duschinsky began as a theater actor on the touring stage of the Austrian National Education Office, in 1925 he moved to Berlin and had various engagements there, in 1929 he appeared in Max Reinhardt's production of Danton's death in the Rathaushofbühne in Vienna. Duschinsky was married to the actress Lilli Lohrer for the first time. In 1928 his play November in Austria had its world premiere in the Berlin Renaissance Theater , and on October 1, 1929 the socio-critical play Die Stempelbrüder there . At the time when his play Kaiser Franz premiered in Graz at the end of 1932 and was staged by Max Reinhardt in Vienna on January 29, 1933, Duschinsky was in Austria so that he experienced the transfer of power to the National Socialists in Germany from Austria . Because he feared political and racist persecution, he stayed in Austria and tried to find employment there and in Czechoslovakia , albeit without great economic success. He was a director and actor in Mährisch-Ostrau and had to flee from the German National Socialists to London in 1938 in the course of the "Anschluss" of Austria , where he had to live from casual work such as the broadcast episode "Pacher und Pachulke" on the German-language radio of the BBC . "In the economic misery his second marriage also broke up."

After the end of the war he stayed in Great Britain , his play Crown Prince Rudolf fell through at the Vienna Volkstheater at the end of 1948 because it did not hit the mood. A fairly free staging of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Einsame Menschen at the "Arts Theater" in London was celebrated by the public in 1958 and panned by German critics as "the translator's fantasies". Duschinsky tried to gain a foothold in the USA in the 1960s, and in 1970 he stayed in Munich for a year , again without success. His play Kaiser Franz , dedicated to the Austrian socialist leader Victor Adler , was staged at the Wiener Festwochen in 1979 in the Volkstheater by Karl Paryla with Hans Jaray in the title role, but the criticism was restrained, and Duschinsky's play no longer even met with opponents from the theater critics.

In 1952, Duschinsky's application for reparation payments because of the forced emigration from Germany in 1933 was rejected by the Berlin Compensation Office in 1958 . In his bitterness, Duschinsky changed his political heart and in the 1980s wrote a documentary to save the honor of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who was murdered in 1934 . In the politics of the day he mutated into supporters of the Vietnam policy of US President Richard Nixon and stood with it against his girlfriend Ruth grains (1908-1995), which was associated with him since 1925, at a distance, but now broke up with him.

Fonts

  • Poor people! : A drama in 4 acts , Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1918
  • Mechthildis: Roman , Zurich: Amalthea-Verl., 1918
  • After Golgotha: A cycle , Berlin: Frisch, 1920
  • November in Austria: Drama in 5 Aufz. , Berlin: S. Fischer, 1928 Ms
  • Dancers in Mardi Gras: Comedy in 4 acts , Berlin: Atheneum, Bühnenvertriebs-Gesellschaft, 1928
  • The Stamp Brothers: An Unemployed Tragedy in 5 Acts , 1929
  • Extra series: a play in three acts , Berlin: S. Fischer, 1930 Ms
  • Emperor Franz Joseph I, of Austria: Drama in 5 acts , 1932
  • Anny: Comedy in 3 Acts , 1932
  • Makart: A drama in 5 acts , Berlin: S. Fischer Verl. 1933 Ms
  • Life laughs: Comedy in 4 acts , Vienna: Bartsch, 1935 Ms
  • The artist couple: Lustsp. in 3 files , Vienna: Weinberger 1937 Ms
  • The Blue University: Comedy in 7 Pictures , Vienna: Weinberger 1937 Ms
  • Weed Grows in America: Comedy in Three Acts , Munich: Ahn & Simrock, ca.1980
  • Unemployed and excluded: Poems from the years 1923 to 1933 , Ed., Verlag Faecher, 1984

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz : German Jews in the 20th Century: A History in Portraits . Munich: Beck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2 , therein: A ruined stage career: Richard Duschinsky , pp. 89–97
  • Frithjof Trapp (ed.): Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 , Saur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-598-11375-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lilli Lohrer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: German Jews in the 20th Century , p. 103
  3. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann. Bite-sized in: Der Spiegel 46/1958
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: German Jews in the 20th Century , p. 105
  5. ↑ Ruth Körner at DNB
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: German Jews in the 20th Century , p. 256.
personal data
SURNAME Duschinsky, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death los Angeles