Rolf Lauckner

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Rolf Lauckner (born October 15, 1887 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 27, 1954 in Bayreuth ) was a German poet , playwright , librettist and screenwriter . He was heir, executor and administrator of his stepfather Hermann Sudermann .

Life

Lauckner's parents were the Königsberg civil engineering master Wilhelm Lauckner and his wife Clara nee. Schulz , an East Prussian writer . After the father was killed in an accident in 1889, the mother made the acquaintance of Hermann Sudermann , whom she married in 1891, at Alexander Wyneken's house . Rolf Lauckner was transferred to the Dr. Ernst Zeidler's educational institution for boys , a boarding school in Dresden's old town . After his little brother had a fatal accident, the six-year-old Lauckner began a lifelong search for God . When the mother moved to Blankensee near Trebbin with her husband and daughter , Lauckner had to stay in Dresden. In the solitude and anguish he started poetry writing. In 1906 he made the Abitur at the Dreikönigschule , a secondary school in Dresden .

Student and editor

Lauckner studied law at the Universities of Lausanne , Kiel , Munich and Königsberg . In choosing a course of study, he responded - actually unwillingly - to the stepfather's wish, who generously supported him financially and made long journeys possible for him. The manuscripts of the travel memories have been preserved. With reference to his passion for travel at the time, Hermione von Preuschen dedicated the volume of poems Kreuz des Südens to him . He later stayed in Germany and often wandered through East Prussia .

After the first exam in Königsberg, he started a traineeship in Labiau in July 1912 , but was dismissed from the judicial service less than six months later; because "everyday life was too full for traineeship work". In 1912 received his doctorate he attended the University of Würzburg to Dr. iur. et rer. pole. In Labiau, Lauckner had already started writing as editor-in-chief for the Berlin newspaper Über Land und Meer . There he made friends with Paul Fechter and Frank Thiess .

On December 30, 1913, he married the painter and graphic artist Elfriede Thum in Berlin , to whom he dedicated his first volume of poetry. The couple lived in Elfriede's house in Tzschetzschnow .

Although filled with a “longing for the epic”, he decided to take the path as a playwright . He never wrote a novel . He had considered limiting himself to lyrics and librettos .

"I can start how I want, even if I want to write epic, the inner tension is too great, it always goes beyond the epic framework, and it turns out to be a drama."

- Rolf Lauckner

Because of a heart disease, he was not drafted in the First World War and also released from labor. In Berlin he became an opponent of the war ( Der Umweg zum Tod , Wir Sturm und Klage ).

Stuttgart

Mediated by the publisher Rudolf Pressler , Lauckner took over the editing of the magazine Über Land und Meer, which had been moved to Stuttgart in 1919 . At the same time he worked as a dramaturge at the Staatstheater Stuttgart . Fritz Busch and Donald Francis Tovey set his arrangements of Franz Schubert's Singspiele The Faithful Soldier and The Women Conspiracy (1922) to music . Lauckner brought his friend Thiess to Stuttgart, Clara Lauckner made stage sets .

During his time in Stuttgart, Lauckner experienced his most successful stage year in 1919 with three premieres without him in Berlin: The Fall of the Apostle Paul ( Deutsches Theater ), Christa the Aunt ( Lessing Theater ) and Sermon in Lithuania ( Volksbühne ).

In Berlin-Charlottenburg a plaque and a relief commemorate Lauckner and his stepfather.

Return home via Vienna

When over land and sea had to be stopped in the German inflation in 1923 , the happy years of the Lauckners in Stuttgart ended. For reasons unknown, they moved to Vienna . Nothing is known about the two years there.

In 1925 the Lauckners returned to Berlin. After Sudermann's death in 1928, Lauckner inherited the villa in Grunewald and Blankensee Castle, which Sudermann wanted to become a place of relaxation for sick and needy writers. The Hermann Sudermann Foundation was established for this purpose. The villa and Clara's house in Tzschetzschnow (now Güldendorf ) and all of the works kept there were destroyed in the Second World War.

After Clara Lauckner died in May 1952, the complete edition of Lauckner's dramatic works was published in 6 volumes. When he end of 1953 to recover the Fichtelgebirge traveled, came to his cancer , a pneumonia , he died in a sanatorium Bayreuth. Lauckner's funeral urn was buried in the grave of Clara and Hermann Sudermann in the Grunewald cemetery.

Honorary positions

Works

Dramas
Sermon in Lithuania , Berlin 1919
Wahnschaffe (Premiere Leipzig 1921)
The journey against God , Berlin 1923
Matumbo , Berlin 1925
Job , 1948
Melodramas
Woman in the Stone , Drama for Music, 1918
Sonata , Kammerspiel in three movements, Berlin 1921
Satuala , opera in three acts, music by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (Premiere Volksbühne Berlin 1924)
Nadja , opera in four pictures, music by Eduard Künneke , Berlin 1931
The Flemish novel
Poems
Poems (1913)
We Sturm und Klage , 1918
Stuttgart in May , 1928
Look, create, senses
Lyric workshop , Gütersloh 1986, ISBN 978-3872310316
Chamber plays
The detour to death , 5 pieces
Christa the aunt , 1919
Scream from the street (premiered December 15, 1922 with Gustaf Gründgens in Berlin)
Crisis . Play in three acts. Stuttgart 1928
Flame
requiem
Comedies
The fall of the apostle Paul , Weimar 1917
Antonio Carossa's undressing , Berlin 1925
Hakim Knows It , the East Prussian Comedy (premiered March 27, 1936 in Stuttgart; 1937 with Christian Kayßler and Maria Paudler in Berlin)
Wanderscheidt is looking for a woman , Munich 1938
The trip to Dresden
Tannhäuser is tried
Venus in the League of Nations. A comedy from contemporary romanticism in three acts . Berlin undated
Histories
Bernhard von Weimar (Premiere November 11, 1933 with Waldemar Leitgeb in Stuttgart)
The Last Prussian , later title: Herkus Monte and the Knight Hirzhals , tragedy (premiered January 30, 1938 in Stuttgart)
Caesar and Cicero , 1947
The vain emperor , 1940
The escape of Michel Angelo , 1945
Scripts
Prussian love story / love legend (premiere 1950 with Lída Baarová )
with Thea von Harbou : The old and the young king
Re-seals
Kalidasa : Shakuntala. An Indian play in seven acts . Berlin 1924
Christian Dietrich Grabbe : Duke Theodor von Gothland. A tragedy in five acts . Berlin 1925
William Shakespeare : Timon of Athens . Berlin 1926
The played fist. Goethe's Faust II . Berlin 1935
Edits
Franz Schubert , 2 Singspiele
Peter Tchaikovsky , Queen of Spades
Carl Maria von Weber , Euryanthe
Albert Lortzing , Casanova in Murano
P. Vandenberghe, The Sparrow of Lord Ravaut (Gringalet)

East Prussia

On your hard shoulders, my country ,
Fate eagles sit and peek
Tense, unrelated ...
What do you see, eagle? What do you see? -
We see .
We peek over to the Weichselland ,
Where foreign flags fly
In the middle of the home country .
And sometimes they climb high .
And flutter and scream . -
What are you screaming, eagle? -
We scream and peek
Into the dark and can no longer see the day .
As far as the Rhine
Runs a shadow band
Across the farmland .
Grows over forest and stone .
Darkens one the paths ,
Silent and empty . -
Everything that fathers do
And fathers rule
Carefully obtained, thoughtful ,
Brought into measure and shape ,
Treasured and guarded ,
Sinks into the death shaft
Foreign powers!
Then they have rigid and dumb again
Sitting on your shoulders ,
Home you wound stick, bleeding edge ...
Who can forget
Sorrow immeasurable ...
What will my country

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e G. Henze
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the history and dogmatics of the reformatio in peius
  3. ↑ Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z (Berlin.de)
  4. ↑ Blankensee Castle
  5. ^ Hermann Sudermann Foundation
  6. ^ Gisela Henze: East Prussia. Born in Königsberg in 1887
  7. ↑ Remembrance of the November Revolution
  8. ↑ Dedicated to Kurt Hiller
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h only in the complete edition
  10. ↑ Compilation in the complete edition (1950)
  11. ↑ "Programmatic for German Expressionism , Harbinger of the Absurd Theater "; 1968 in San Francisco
  12. ↑ History of the Thirty Years War
  13. ^ Prussia against Teutonic Knights
  14. ↑ about Maria Theresa
  15. ↑ about Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia)
  16. ↑ see Abhijnanashakuntala
personal data
SURNAME Lauckner, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1954
Place of death Bayreuth