Rudolf Blümner

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Rudolf Blümner (born August 19, 1873 in Breslau ; † September 3, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German actor , reciter , dramaturge and essayist .

Life

Blümner grew up in Zurich , where his father Hugo Blümner was Professor of Classical Studies, and studied from 1892 to 1896 Jura . He let himself be dismissed from the legal civil service in 1899 and from then on devoted himself to acting. From 1906 to 1912 he was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, for which he had previously worked as a language teacher.

As a film actor he acted a. a. in the silent films Die Rache des Blutes (1914), Der Golem (1915) and Sylvester (1924). The sound films he has worked on include classics such as M - Eine Stadt sucht ein Mörder (1931) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1931).

Blümner had been friends with Herwarth Walden since 1903 . In the 1910s he appeared frequently as a reciter in the expressionist “Sturm” circle. For Walden's literary magazine Der Sturm , he wrote over 60 glosses, reviews, polemical essays and theoretical writings from 1920 to 1932.

For lyrical texts such as those he wrote himself, Blümner demanded that speech melody and rhythm should dominate the content. On the other hand, he saw lyric poetry - analogous to abstract painting - as rigid and closed art, which distinguishes him from the playful and open-minded sound art of Dada .

On March 28, 1934, together with the prominent futurists Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Ruggero Vasari (1898–1968) as cultural representatives of Fascist Italy, he opened the exhibition “Italian futuristic aerial and flight painting” in the exhibition rooms of the former Flechtheim Gallery at Lützowufer 13 in Berlin " , Which was the subject of violent wing battles within the National Socialist power apparatus in the course of the so-called" Expressionism dispute ". Joseph Goebbels was one of its patrons as President of the Reich Chamber of Culture . In an essay, Blümner, who had also published the catalog for the exhibition, wrote: "The idea of ​​futurism and thus all of the radical art of Europe that is so closely related to it was in complete agreement with the idea of ​​fascism".

A little later, Blümner was banned from writing and performing because of his wife's Jewish descent. In order to alleviate the couple's material hardship, his colleague from the time of the storm, William Wauer , hired his wife as a secretary. From 1938 he again had a few supporting roles in history and homeland films, such as B. The dismissal of Wolfgang Liebeneiner or the Forester of Alois Johannes Lippl . In 1944 he went blind. His death the following year is said to have caused exhaustion from starvation.

Filmography (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Der Tartuffe (Comedy in 3 acts based on Moliêre), Bühnenvolksbundverl., Berlin 1929.
  • Der Mocker von Sevilla (Comedy in 5 acts based on Moliêre), Bühnenvolksbundverl., Berlin 1932.
  • The court devil: a dog's day comedy (comedy), theater publ. A. Langen-G. Müller, Berlin 1934.
  • A good person (comedy in 5 acts), theater publ. A. Langen-G. Müller, Berlin 1935.

Works

literature

  • Frank Raepke: Blümner, Rudolf. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works of German language. Volume 2: Bit - Dav. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-570-04672-9 , p. 25.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Blümner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Demetz : Words of Freedom. Italian futurism and the German literary avant-garde (1912–1934). With detailed documentation (=  Piper . Band  1186 ). Piper, Munich a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-492-11186-6 , pp. 146 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Dyck: Gottfried Benn. Introduction to life and work . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-019639-9 , pp. 100 .
  3. ↑ Italian futuristic aerial and flight painting . Preface by Rudolf Blümner. Exhibition from March 28 to April 27, 1934, Berlin W 35, Lützowufer 13. Bajanz and Studer, Berlin 1934 (exhibition catalog).
  4. ↑ Thomas Anz : Ghosts. How Fascism cast off futurism: Peter Demetz's documentation . In: The time . No.  20 , 1991, p. 68 ( [1] ).
  5. ↑ Thomas Anz: Benn's Confessions to Expressionist Modernism and National Socialism . In: Friederike Reents (Ed.): Gottfried Benns Modernität . Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0151-1 , p. 11-22 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ a b Karl Riha, Marcel Beyer. (Ed.): Ango Laïna and other texts . 1993, p. 324 .
personal data
SURNAME Blümner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, reciter, poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1945
Place of death Berlin