Rolf Sievers

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Rolf Sievers (born January 23, 1902 in Leipzig ; † April 26, 1949 there ) was a German writer and cabaret artist . He is also known as Rolf A. Sievers . He also used several pseudonyms , including: Peter Sillje , Rudi Mente , KA Lauer and Anton Seifert .

Life

Rolf Sievers attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium from 1918 to 1919 . During this time he was already involved in the founding of Adriaan Michiel van den Broecke jun. published magazine Evoe and was part of the staff of the satirical magazine Der Drache founded by Hans Reimann in 1919 . Later he also made contributions to the world stage . He was also the editor of the satirical bi-monthly magazine: Hört, Hört!

In 1921, along with Woldemar Sacks, Hans Merkel and Herbert Weißbach, he was part of the ensemble of the cabaret Der Rauch , founded by Eugen Ortner , which was one of the first cabaret stages in Leipzig to be closed again after a six-month season.

At the same time he wrote texts for the on February 1, 1921 by Hans Reimann, the director Hans Peter Schmiedel, the fur trader Dr. Walter Franke and the actor Hans Zeise-Gött founded political-literary cabaret Die Retorte . Walter Mehring , Max Herrmann-Neiße , Klabund and Joachim Ringelnatz also made contributions to this nationally important cabaret stage, some of which were performed by themselves or by actors from the municipal theaters such as Lina Carstens . In 1923, the theater, located at Pfaffendorfer Strasse 4, had to stop operating due to inflation .

Rolf Sievers, who claimed to have been involved in all cabaret start-ups and all cabaret bankruptcies in Leipzig, was also actively involved when the Leipzig cabaret Die Litfaßsäule was launched in August 1930 in the guild hall of the Südbräu restaurant at Zeitzer Straße 36 . As a house poet, he was responsible for the daily criticism of the times. Graphic artists like Max Schwimmer designed the posters. It was not without pride that Sievers liked to describe himself as a litfascist . After the seizure of power in 1933, the liberal cabaret , which with its texts turned against German-national tendencies and anti - Semitism, had to stop working.

During the Nazi era, Rolf A. Sievers maintained his integrity, so that in 1945 he was appointed first director of the Leipzig theaters.

When Ferdinand May and Joachim Werzlau started the literary cabaret , which from 1947 was called Die Rampe , in the former Leipzig teachers' association building with the program: Please be very friendly! Sievers was one of the in-house authors until his untimely death, where he also appeared at times as an emcee .

Quotes

  • On horseback (text: Rolf Sievers, music: Conny Odd )

But in any case, humans have inherited something from the juggler!
The profession has rubbed off, rubbed off, rubbed off on the soul!
Throughout the ages I have - as they say: juggled through!
That's why nothing happened to me by far - nothing happened - nothing happened!
With Brühnig, I was at the center, with Hindenburg - nationally!
With Adolf - then I was a Nazi - and today? Well, if so - it doesn't matter!
Once to the right, once to the left, the attitude swings back and forth!
Once on the right, once on the left, because I'm a juggler.
Please, gentlemen and ladies,
look for a name for the child!
Now you just guess, it's not difficult at all -
what's the child's name? Alignment Juggler!

Works (selection)

  • Down with the cylinder! A political cabaret program , L. Kannegießer, Leipzig 1924
  • Essays: Attacks (1924), Yesterday and the Day after Tomorrow (1924)
  • Satire: The Hitler Putsch (1924)

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, 35th year, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1930
  • German Literature Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical manual, 17th volume: Schwalb-Siewert, KG Saur, Bern and Munich 1997
  • Hannskarl Hoerning, Harald Pfeifer (Ed.): Are they allowed to do that. 75 years of cabaret in Leipzig , Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1996
  • Rudolf Hösch: Cabaret from yesterday: based on contemporary reports, reviews and memories , Vol. 1: 1900–1933, Henschelverlag, Berlin 1967
  • Rudolf Hösch: Cabaret from yesterday and today: based on contemporary reports, reviews, texts and memories , Vol. 2: 1933–1970, Henschelverlag, Berlin 1972
  • Ulrich Kiehl: The literature in the Leipzig district 1945-1990 , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002
  • Marginalia: Journal for Book Art and Bibliography , ed. vd Pirkheimer-Gesellschaft, No. 53, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin, Weimar 1976
  • Ferdinand May: The good and the bad things. A life told , New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand May, p. 270
  2. ^ Johann Hauptmann: Alphabetical index of former Carolaner , in: Twenty-five anniversary of the Queen Carola high school in Leipzig 1927 , Leipzig 1927, p. 31
  3. ↑ Evoe. A magazine for modern theater. Edited by Adriaan Michiel van den Broecke jun., Vol. 1, issue 1 and 2, Leipzig 1919–1920
  4. ↑ Hans Michael Richter: Soo golden the twenties. 1921 The beginning , in: Hoerning, Pfeifer, p. 12
  5. ^ A b German Literature Lexicon, Vol. 17, p. 674
  6. ^ Sievers, Rolf , in: Kürschner's Literature Calendar 1930
  7. ↑ Rudolf Hösch, Vol. 1, p. 231
  8. ↑ See Ulrich Kiehl, p. 11
  9. ↑ Since 1945 part of Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse in Leipzig's southern suburb
  10. ↑ Hans Michael Richter: Soo golden the twenties. 1921 The beginning , in: Hoerning, Pfeifer, p. 24
  11. ^ Marginalia, 53, p. 39
  12. ↑ From the program: Allez hopp , Kabarett Die Rampe , spring 1949. Quoted from: Rudolf Hösch, vol. 2, p. 216f
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sillje, Peter (pseudonym); Mente, Rudi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, satirist, cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1949
Place of death Leipzig