Siegfried Nestriepke

Siegfried Nestriepke (born December 17, 1885 in Bartenstein , † December 5, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German social democratic journalist , later theater director and leading representative of the Volksbühne movement . For a short time after the Second World War he was magistrate for public education in Berlin.

Life

His father was a public prosecutor and his mother came from an old East Prussian family. He attended school in Bartenstein and, after the family moved, the elementary school and grammar school in Bremen . Between 1905 and 1909 he studied economics, history and literary history in Berlin and Marburg . Professors such as the Kathedersozialisten Gustav von Schmoller and Adolf Wagner influenced him . Nestriepke dealt intensively with Karl Marx . In Marburg he heard from Hermann Cohen . He completed his academic training with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. with a work on the poet Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart .

During his studies he was involved in the German Free Student Union. In this connection he came into conflict with the university administration. During this time he also began to be politically active. From 1908 he was a member of the Democratic Association and became party secretary for Rhineland and Westphalia. He had a particular interest in trade unions and worked in 1912/13 as an economic specialist and editor for an organization of technical officials.

He then worked as a journalist and joined the SPD . At the social democratic Franconian Daily Mail he was responsible for political leading articles in 1912 and was editor of the features section. He switched to forward in 1914 . Nestriepke joined the USPD from the SPD in 1918 and was at times editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Freiheit . Afterwards he was editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Volkszeitung for a short time . Later he was a correspondent for various provincial newspapers. In 1920 he switched back to the SPD. In the same year Nestriepke published his three-volume work The Trade Union Movement . He also became general secretary of the Volksbühne Berlin . From 1930 he was also director of the theater on Bülowplatz, from 1932 managing director of the Volksbühne Berlin.

Shortly after the beginning of the National Socialist rule , he lost his post in May 1933. He was also temporarily prohibited from writing. Until the end of the war he worked for a film company.

After 1945 Nestriepke was first director of the Schlossparktheater in Berlin. As a member of the SPD in 1946 and 1947, he was the magistrate for popular education in Berlin. On July 3, 1947, he was dismissed from the command office for alleged violations of the provisional constitution and regulations of the Allies .

Nestriepke was the main founder of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin in 1947 and chairman of the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin until 1954 and again from 1957 to 1961 . He was also chairman of the Association of German People's Theaters. He was also director of the theater on Kurfürstendamm from 1949 to 1955 . In addition, he wrote writings on theater and theater history. He was also a lecturer at the Free University .

In 1955, the Free University of Berlin honored him with an honorary doctorate.

Siegfried Nestriepke died two weeks before his 78th birthday in December 1963 in Berlin. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

See also

• Magistrate Ostrowski - Magistrate Reuter (Greater Berlin) - Magistrate Schroeder

Writings and printed speeches (selection)

• The student. A guide for everyone who wants to go to a university (= miniature library ; No. 759/760). Publishing house for art and science, Leipzig 1909.
• Schubart as a poet. A contribution to the knowledge of Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart . Bruno Feigenspan, Pößneck 1910.
• Advertise and become. History and system of union agitation. Franconian Publishing House, Nuremberg 1914.
• The truth about the Berlin street fighting. Publishing cooperative "Freiheit", Berlin 1919.
• The communalization of the theater with special consideration of the conditions in Berlin. Lecture given on the occasion of the general assembly of the Freie Volksbühne zu Berlin on May 8, 1919 by Dr. Siegfried Nestriepke. Free Volksbühne office, Berlin 1919.
• The trade union movement. Three volumes. 2nd expanded and revised edition. Ernst Heinrich Moritz [publisher], Stuttgart 1922/1923 (first edition 1920/1921).
• The modern theater business (= people and art ; issue 1). Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1924.
• The demands of the Volksbühnen on the Reichsbühnengesetz. Lecture [,] given at the 7th Volksbühnentagung in Hamburg on June 25, 1926 (= publications of the Association of German Volksbühnenvereine ; issue 11). Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1926.
• Paths to a new film culture (= publications of the Association of German People's Stage Associations ; Issue 15). Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1927.
• Theater budgets. Instructions and examples (= publications of the Association of German Volksbühnenvereine ; Issue 14). Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1927.
• Volksbühne communities. Nature, structure, work (= publications of the Association of German People's Stage Associations ; Issue 3). Third, completely revised and expanded edition. Volksbühnen-Verlags und Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1928 (first edition 1922).
• The wandering theater. Pictures from the practice of the touring stages of the Volksbühnenverband (= publications of the Association of German Volksbühnenvereine ; Issue 18). Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1928.
• The theater through the ages. German Book Association GmbH, Berlin 1928.
• History of the Volksbühne Berlin. Part I: 1890 to 1914. Volksbühnen-Verlags und Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1930.
• Preface. In: Theater and Youth. Three lectures [,] held on the 15th Volksbühnentag on June 15, 1952 in Hanover (= publications of the Association of German Volksbühnevereine ; Issue 3 [New Series]). Association of German Volksbühnenvereine e. V., Berlin 1952, pp. 3-13.
• The Volksbühne movement faces new tasks. Lecture given at the Bremer Volksbühnentag 1956. Association of German Volksbühnenvereine, Berlin 1956.
• New start. The history of the Free Vlksbühne Berlin 1946 to 1955. Arani Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1956.

Editing

• The fight for freedom at the University of Marburg. Published on behalf of the Free German Student Union. Bavaria-Verlag, Munich 1908.
• Community culture magazine series . Ernst Heinrich Moritz [publisher], Stuttgart 1921.
• German actors of the present. Characteristics of all important actors and actresses in Berlin, Vienna and the larger provincial towns. Association of German Volksbühnenvereine publishers, Berlin 1925.

Translations and edits

• The bear wedding. A drama in nine pictures based on a novella by Prosper Mérimé by AW Lunatscharski from the Russian by J. Gotz and S. Nestriepke. Volksbühnen-Verlag and Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1925.
• Carl Schurz : From the memoirs of a forty-eight man. Newly told and edited by S. Nestriepke and R. Ilgner. Gebr. Weiß [publisher], Berlin 1948.

literature

• Cecil William Davies: Theater for the people: the story of the Volksbühne. Manchester, 1977 p. 88ff.
• Walther G. Oschilewski (Ed.): Siegfried Nestriepke. Life and achievement. Siegfried Nestriepke on his seventieth birthday. Congratulations and appreciations presented by friends and companions (= heads of the times ). Arani-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1955 (therein Nestriepke bibliography).

Web links

• Short biography FU Berlin
• Literature by and about Siegfried Nestriepke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Hanke : Self-administration and socialism Carl Herz , a social democrat. Hamburg, Münster, 2004 p. 340
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 637.