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Austrian playwright and director
Arnolt Bronnen
(19 August 1895 ? 12 October 1959) was an
Austrian
playwright
and
director
.
Life and career
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Bronnen was born in
Vienna
, Austria, the son of the Austrian-Jewish writer
Ferdinand Bronner
and his Christian wife Martha Bronner.
[1]
Bronnen's most famous play is the
Expressionist
drama
Parricide
(
Vatermord
, 1922); its premiere production is notable, among other things, for being that from which Bronnen's friend, the young
Bertolt Brecht
in an early stage of his directing career, withdrew, after being taken to hospital with malnutrition and the actors of the cast, led by
Heinrich George
, walked out on him.
[2]
According to
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
, the "erotic, anti-
bourgeois
, black expressionism" of the play "caused a sensation" when it was eventually performed.
Bronnen also wrote
Birth of Youth
(
Geburt der Jugend
, 1922) and
Die Excesse
(1923).
[3]
After having collaborated on film treatments and various theatrical projects together, in 1923 Bronnen and Brecht co-directed a condensed version of
Pastor Ephraim Magnus
(a
nihilistic
, Expressionist play, according to
The Cambridge Guide
, "stuffed with
perversities
and
sado-masochistic
motifs
") by
Hans Henny Jahnn
.
[4]
Later in his life he wrote
reportage plays
.
[3]
Bronnen signed the
Gelobnis treuester Gefolgschaft
, a "vow of most faithful allegiance" to
Adolf Hitler
in 1933,
[5]
and was program director for the public TV station
Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow
, but after the
Second World War
he became a
communist
.
[3]
Bronnen died of heart failure in
East Berlin
and is buried in the
Dorotheenstadt cemetery
.
[6]
Selected filmography
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References
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- ^
The Menorah Journal
19 (1930)
170
.
- ^
Willett and Manheim (1970, viii) and Thomson (1994, 26).
- ^
a
b
c
Banham (1998, 132).
- ^
Banham (1998, 553), Sacks (1994, xviii), and Willett and Manheim (1970, viii).
- ^
88 "writers"
, from
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949
, Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism 12, University of California Press 1998,
ISBN
0-520-07278-2
, pp. 367–68.
- ^
Taylor (1980,
65
).
Sources
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]
- Banham, Martin
, ed. 1998.
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
ISBN
0-521-43437-8
.
- Sacks, Glendyr
. 1994. "A Brecht Calendar." In
The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
. Ed. Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-41446-6
. pp. xvii–xxvii.
- Taylor, Ronald. 1980.
Literature and Society in Germany, 1918–1945
. Harvester studies in contemporary literature and culture 3. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press / Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble.
ISBN
9780389200369
.
- Thomson, Peter. 1994. "Brecht's Lives." In
The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
. Ed. Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
0-521-41446-6
. p. 22–39.
- Willett, John
and
Ralph Manheim
. 1970. "Introduction." In
Collected Plays: One
by Bertolt Brecht. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser. London: Methuen.
ISBN
0-416-03280-X
. pp. vii–xvii.
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