Walter Trautschold

Walter Trautschold (born February 20, 1902 in Berlin ; † April 22, 1969 there ) was a German painter , draftsman , caricaturist , illustrator and set designer .

Life

Walter Trautschold was the son of the actor and director Gustav Trautschold . He received his artistic training at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule Berlin under Eduard Suhr. Trautschold made a name for himself as a painter in his early twenties, his favorite subject initially being nude and full-body portraits of young women. Later he also created sculptures and designed sets for the theater.

As the older brother of the actress Ilse Trautschold, Walter Trautschold quickly made contact with the cabaret scene and maintained close contact with the famous " Catacomb ". For this cabaret he worked as a draftsman and illustrator and challenged Nazi politics several times with his work. Thereupon, on May 10, 1935, Goebbels ordered the transfer ... [of the catacombs members] ... “to a camp with physical labor for a period of six weeks. The small Esterwegen concentration camp in Emsland was selected for this disciplinary measure. The attempt at intimidation was only half successful because Goebbels had made the calculation without his strongest adversary in the Reich government, Prussia's Prime Minister Hermann Goring . Finck's colleague Käthe Dorsch, a highly respected stage star and his ex-fiancée, had meanwhile spoken out to the future Reichsmarschall for the delinquents. Goering's advisor then wrote to Berlin's Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich on June 25, 1935 : “The Prime Minister wishes that the arrested persons be released from custody and that proper proceedings be instituted against them.” “ This process ended with everyone involved an acquittal.

After the war, Trautschold lived in the Berlin artists' colony and supplied the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with his works. Since 1946 he was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin.

Individual evidence

↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 18.

Web links

Walter Trautschold on eart.de
Walter Trautschold in the Kiezer weblog http://blog.klausenerplatz-kiez.de/archive/2017/09/24/walter_trautschold__zeichner_k

personal data
SURNAME	Trautschold, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman, caricaturist, sculptor and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	April 22, 1969
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 18.