Rudolf Weys

Rudolf Weys (born September 30, 1898 in Graz , Austria-Hungary , † February 27, 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , writer and cabaret artist .

Life

After studying law, which he completed with a doctorate in 1922, Rudolf Weys, who used the pseudonym "Ernst Ludwig", became a theater critic. For several years he also earned his living as an authorized signatory in a bookstore. In 1933 he opened Die Gooseberry in the garden-facing theater hall of Café Döblingerhof , Vienna-Döbling , Billrothstrasse  49, (the cabaret active until 1936) , which the following year moved to Café Colonnaden ( downtown Vienna , Rathausplatz  4) and from where it moved to Café Arkaden (Vienna city center, Reichsratsstrasse  17 / Universitätsstrasse  3) changed.

Another cabaret that he opened together with F. W. Stein († 1945) was the literature on Naschmarkt (Café Dobner). This cabaret, created in 1933, was closed in 1938; a large part of the ensemble later worked under the direction of Adolf Müller-Reitzner (1901–1943) in the Wiener Werkel, which opened in 1939 . Rudolf Weys, who belonged to the "Aryan" part of the old staff, became an in-house author there.

As a librettist , Weys was successful for the first time in 1937 with Robert Stolz's (1880–1975) musical operetta Der sweetest Schwindel der Welt , which was performed at La Scala in Vienna under the direction of Rudolf Beer (1885–1938) (leading role: Johannes Heesters ; 1903-2011).

After 1945, when the Werkl was continued under the name of Literature in the Moulin Rouge , Weys officially took over the management, but had to close in January 1946. In the following years he worked as a film critic and provided the Dear Augustin and the Kleine Brettl (Vienna-Innere Stadt, Rotgasse  5) with texts.

Weys is considered to be the inventor of the centerpieces . Among other things, he wrote the folk play Pratermärchen , the revue Ringstrasse Melody and the Singspiel Die Straussbuben .

Rudolf Weys married the actress Gerda Waschinsky (1905–1990) in 1936 . He was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof . Rudolf Weys junior, born in 1938. became a dramaturge, he died in 2000.

Fonts (excerpt)

• -, Oskar Laske (Ill.): (...) Long live our Prater !. In:  Die Wiener Bühne , year 1945, No. 8/1945 (XXI. Year), p. 12. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Everyday fairy tales about past masters. With the camera in old Viennese monuments. In:  Die Wiener Bühne , born 1945, No. 9/1945 (XXI. Year), p. 15 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Viennese cabaret - new territory for theater. From “Dear Augustin” to “Literature in the Moulin Rouge”. In:  Die Wiener Bühne , born in 1945, No. 11/1945 (XXI. Year), p. 6 f. (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). .
• Literature on the Naschmarkt. Cultural history of Viennese cabaret in samples . Cudek, Vienna 1946, OBV .
• Summer trip to Sonnenland . Pictures: Walter Harnisch . Jungbrunnen publishing house, Vienna 1948, OBV .
• Vacation trip to the children's republic. Continuation of the summer trip to the Sonnenland . Words: Rudolf Dirr . Pictures: Walter Harnisch. Jungbrunnen publishing house, Vienna 1949, OBV .
• Dad, I like to live so much ...! (The boy Rupi). Chronicle of a child's life . Printed as a manuscript. Vienna 1955, OBV .
• Cabaret and cabaret in Vienna . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-7141-6038-7 , OBV .
• Vienna remains Vienna and that serves him perfectly . Illustrations: Georg Schmid . Europaverlag, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-203-50468-5 .

literature

• Regina Thumser:  "Life is serious, art is serene". - Cabaret in Austria in the interwar period. In:  Zeitgeschichte , year 2000, No. 6/2000 (XXVII. Year), pp. 386–396. (Online at ANNO ). .

Web links

• Weys, Rudolf, 1898–1978 in the Austrian Library Network .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The gooseberry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
2. ↑ kabarettarchiv.at
3. ↑ Rudolf Weys et al: The sweetest swindle in the world . Pictorial representation, 1-sheet poster. Sn, Vienna 1937. - Image .
4. ^ Rudolf Weys grave site , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, Group 15, Row 1, No. 7.
5. ↑ Ingrid Bigler-Marschall (Ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume VI, Fasz. 32/33: Weisbrod-Wiel, de Gruyter, p. 3298.
   Rudolf Weys grave site , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, group 15, row 1, no. 7.

Remarks

1. ↑ Stein (probably a pseudonym for Winterstein ), as a Jew, fell into the hands of a German patrol at the beginning of 1945 and was taken to an extermination camp. - Ingeborg Reisner: Cabaret as a workshop for the theater. Literary cabaret in Vienna before the Second World War . Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901602-15-1 , p. 202. (Also: Dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1961).
   According to Hans Veigl : Tears and Laughter, Cabaret in Reconstruction (Straden 2009, ZDB -ID 2460812-9 ), p. 142, Stein died in 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
2. ↑ Müller-Reitzner had played on literature for two years . He was a party candidate for the NSDAP and, as an ambitious actor, proposed a (politically and racially) portable ensemble for Vienna to the Berlin Reichstheaterkammer in the summer of 1938 (including, in addition to Hufnagl: Hugo Gottschlich , Josef Meinrad , Walter Varndal , Oskar Wegrostek , Rosl Dorena , Erna Michall , Josef Carl Knaflitsch ), which the Reich Propaganda Office Vienna commissioned to open a cabaret at Liliengasse 3. Under the protection of Müller-Reitzner's party badge alone, the theater management succeeded in camouflaging “non-Aryans” and “mixed race” and also accommodating plays by “intolerable” authors like Fritz Eckhardt . - Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 64 f.