Troop 1931
The Theater Truppe 1931 emerged from the communist cell in the Berlin artists' colony . The founder, director and author was Gustav von Wangenheim .
history
The theater troupe was formed in 1931 from the communist cell in the Berlin artists' colony.
The founder and director was Gustav von Wangenheim, later director of the German Theater in Berlin. Because of this old friendship, Gustav von Wangenheim also gave the funeral speech on January 6, 1946 for fellow actors and resistance fighters Hans Meyer-Hanno and Hans Otto .
Participants were mainly residents of the Berlin artist colony: Steffie Spira / Hans Meyer-Hanno with his wife Irene as pianist / Curt Trepte / Fedja Boensch / Louise Fernes / Ingeborg Franke / Otto Hahn (not the physicist) / Charlotte Jacoby / Theodor Popp / Stefan Wolpe as a composer (after 1933 very successful in the USA, later also professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music) / Heinrich Greif (also organizational staff) / Alexander Lex (painter) / Nerlinger (painter) / Robert Trösch , as a free consultant for the textbooks often asked Arthur Koestler and Theodor Balk .
Pieces included Da lies buried (1931), Die Mausefalle (1931/32), Who's the Dumbest? by Karl August Wittfogel ( banned by the National Socialists in 1933 ) with tours abroad to Switzerland, Austria a. a.
After the big raid on March 15, 1933, the theater group disbanded.
swell
- ↑ Steffie Spira-Ruschin: Trot of the rocking horses. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1984.
- ↑ Pieces from: Gustav von Wangenheim: The dog is buried there. Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1974.
literature
- Gustav von Wangenheim: The dog and other pieces are buried there. From the repertoire of Troupe 31. Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-499-25044-6 . (Contains There is the dog buried , The mousetrap, Who's the dumbest? The verdict )