Traugott Müller
Traugott Karl Alexander Müller (born December 28, 1895 in Düren , † February 29, 1944 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German set designer , theater and film director .
Life
The son of a superintendent attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1913 and was a soldier in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. Then he worked as a singer, lute player and emcee .
In 1920 he created his first set for a performance of The Gate and Death in a garden bar in Düsseldorf . From 1923 he lived in Berlin and performed in cabarets. For the Kammerspiele of the German Theater in 1924, he made the stage for August Strindberg's weather lights .
It was not until 1925 that Müller was able to gain a reputation as a well-known set designer through his collaboration with Erwin Piscator . Important productions were Rudolf Leonhard's Sails on the Horizon (1925, Volksbühne ), Die Räuber (1926, Schauspielhaus ), Ehm Welks Gewitter über Gottland (1927, Volksbühne), Ernst Toller's Oops, we're alive! (1927, Theater am Nollendorfplatz ) or Theodor Plieviers Des Kaisers Kulis (1930, Lessingtheater ).
From 1935 Müller was permanently employed at the Prussian State Theaters. He worked as a guest set designer in Erfurt , Hamburg , Düsseldorf (under Walter Bruno Iltz ), Vienna and in Heidelberg at the Reichsfestspiele 1937/1938.
1928 began his directorial work with Lion Feuchtwanger's Die Petroleum-Insel at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . In 1929 he directed Alfred Wolfenstein's Die Nacht vor dem Beil in the theater on Nollendorfplatz. In 1941 he was able to direct his only film with Friedemann Bach .
As a set designer, Müller used relatively few props and hoped to move away from the peep-show stage . Because of this orientation, he was usually more of a stage architect than a stage designer. His design for a sports theater for the Ruhr area, which was to serve as a sports arena, theater and assembly room at the same time, was never realized.
Traugott Müller was killed in an Allied air raid.
Filmography
- 1939: Stepping off the path (buildings, costumes)
- 1939: Two worlds (buildings, artistic direction, assistant director)
- 1941: Friedemann Bach (director)
literature
- Elmar Buck : Müller, Traugott. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 476 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Geoffrey M. Eroe: The stage designs of Traugott Müller in relation to the Political Theater of Erwin Piscator and the Weimar Republic. Dissertation , Stanford University , Stanford 1993.
- Traugott R. Müller: Traugott Müller 1895-1944. Set designer of the great room. Berlin 1923-1944. The Blue Owl, Essen 2002.
Web links
- Traugott Müller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Traugott Müller at filmportal.de
- Part of Traugott Müller's estate at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Traugott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Traugott Karl Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German set designer, theater and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Düren |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1944 |
| Place of death | Kleinmachnow |