Rudolf Mirbt

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Rudolf Mirbt (born February 24, 1896 in Marburg , Hesse ; † December 4, 1974 in Feldkirchen-Westerham , Upper Bavaria ) was a German pedagogue , writer, dramatist and publicist . He was a sponsor of the performing game ( amateur play ), which was largely initiated by Martin Luserke , in German schools and in the youth movement .

family

Rudolf Mirbt was the fourth child of the Protestant church historian Carl Theodor Mirbt . His oldest brother is the lawyer Hermann Mirbt . His younger brother is the agricultural advisor Carl Alexander Mirbt (1902-1975), who was a British citizen from 1938.

education

After attending grammar school in Marburg, Rudolf Mirbt studied at the Georg August University in Göttingen and at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen without obtaining an academic degree.

Professional development

He then worked as a bookseller in Wroclaw , Lower Silesia . From 1927 he took over the function of managing director of the Silesian Evangelical People's Education Committee . From 1932 he was head of the literary department of the station Schlesische Funkstunde (SFS) Breslau.

In April and May 1931 he traveled to the Soviet Union, not knowing the Russian language. Then he wrote a book about his travel impressions, which was banned in the Third Reich . Mirbt describes, among other things, his Moscow encounters and conversations with the German theater teacher, director and theater manager Erwin Piscator , but also with the son of the Austrian consul general, the Viennese correspondent Nikolaus Basseches (1895–1961), who had often met with Walter Benjamin . Mirbt also spoke to the journalist, writer and publicist (1933) Artur W. Just (1896–1955) or to Wilhelm Baum, the press attachée of the German embassy in Moscow.

In 1934 Mirbt moved from Breslau to the Central Office for German Foreign Libraries (previously: Central Office for German Foreign Libraries ) in Berlin .

After the end of the Second World War , Mirbt initially worked as a freelance writer. In 1953 he became a specialist advisor for musical education at the secondary schools in Schleswig-Holstein, based in Kiel . In addition, he received a teaching position at the University of Education in Kiel and co-led the Kiel game leader seminar .

Part-time engagements

Mirbt was one of the sponsors of German amateur play . Starting out from the youth movement , Mirbt began in the Munich youth ring in the 1920s. Until 1938 he published the series of Munich amateur plays there . Later he was the editor of the Bärenreiter amateur games and the magazine Laienspielgemeinde . It was on his initiative that the Federal Game and Theater Working Group was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1953.

Works (selection)

  • The Grim Reaper. A game of love . Christian Kaiser Verlag , Munich 1923
  • The citizens of Calais. A people's game . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1925
  • Munich amateur plays . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1928
  • Possibilities and limits of amateur play . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1928
  • Munich amateur play guide. A signpost for amateur play and all sorts of other things . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1930
  • The report of death . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1931
  • Soviet Russian travel impressions . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1932
  • The holiday game. A choral contemporary play . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1932
  • Folk play and art (amateur play) . In: The National Theater. Quarterly publication of the Bühnenvolksbund, 5, 1932/33, pp. 19–24
  • The German heart . Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 1934
  • Thank you rally to the German voting areas. A folk German choral game . In: Volksdeutsche Festspiele, issue 7th Volksbund für das Deutschtum Abroad; VDA-Wirtschaftsunternehmen (Ed.), Berlin 1934
  • The amateur play . In: The German Drama in Past and Present, 6, 1934, pp. 123–127
  • The men of Calais . In: The German Drama in Past and Present, 6, 1934, pp. 190–192
  • Voice of the people. Thank you rally to the German voting areas . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1935
  • The Uri game by Wilhelm Tell. A pawn game . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1936
  • The judas players . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1937
  • 15 years of Munich amateur plays , Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1938
  • Passion . Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1949
  • Christmas game from the Bavarian Forest . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1950
  • Little guide through the Bärenreiter amateur games . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1951
  • From one's own gesture. An amateur playbook in 26 examples . Don Bosco Verlag , Munich 1951
  • The Bärenreiter amateur play advisor. A guide to the performing game and its neighborhoods . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1959
  • Amateur play and theater. Lectures and essays from the years 1923-1959 . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1960
  • The language of the pictures (own experiences with the amateur play). In: names and works. Biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement, 3, 1975, pp. 245–248

literature

  • Eugen Kalkschmidt: Lyrical selection . In: Zeitwende. Culture, church, current affairs. 11, II, 1934/35, pp. 56-57
  • Karl Rauch: Lyrical calls . In: Das Deutsche Wort, 10, 1934, no. 52, supplement: The living book, pp. 1–2
  • Otto brother: Rudolf Mirbt in Munich . In: Encounters and Effects. Festgabe for Rudolf Mirbt and the German amateur play, 1956, pp. 11–12
  • Alfons Hayduk: Acrostic Poem on Rudolf Mirbt. In: Encounters and Effects. Festgabe for Rudolf Mirbt and the German amateur play . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1956, p. 8
  • Hermann Kaiser (Ed.) Encounters and Effects. Festgabe for Rudolf Mirbt and the German amateur play . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1956
  • Paul Amtmann (Ed.): Performing game. Youth play, school play, folk play, open-air play, student stage, amateur theater. Rudolf Mirbt on his 70th birthday . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1966
  • Rudolph Jahn: Rudolf Mirbt on his seventieth birthday . In: Sudetenland. European cultural magazine. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia. Quarterly magazine for art, literature, science and folklore. 8, 1966, pp. 51-54
  • Alwin Müller: When Munich shone. The youth ring and the Mirbt game group 1920-1925. Sheets in memory of Rudolf Mirbt and the Mirbt circle . Deutscher Theaterverlag , Weinheim 1974
  • Hinrich Jantzen: Rudolf Mirbt . In: names and works. Biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement. 3, 1975, pp. 241-243
  • Walther Jantzen: The youth educator Rudolf Mirbt . In: names and works. Biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement. 3, 1975, pp. 243-245

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirbt, Rudolf . In: German biography. From: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Rudolf Mirbt . From: munzinger.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Rudolf Mirbt . From: whoswho.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
  4. ↑ Rudolf Mirbt . In: German Broadcasting Archive . On: dra.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
  5. ^ Matthias Heeke: Journeys to the Soviets. Foreign tourism in Russia 1921–1941 . Dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 1999. LIT Verlag, Münster 2003. ISBN 3-8258-5692-2 , p. 461
  6. ^ Rudolf Mirbt: Soviet Russian travel impressions . Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1932. From: verbrannte-und-verbanned.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
  7. ^ Walter Benjamin: Moscow Diary . 1980 (1926/27) pp. 58, 63, 101ff., 109, 111, 130ff., 140ff., 147ff., 152, 159f., 168f., 171f. and 174.
  8. ↑ Mirbt, Rudolf . In: German Literature Archive Marbach. From: dla-marbach.de, accessed on April 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mirbt, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1974
Place of death Feldkirchen-Westerham