Felix Dhünen
Franz Sondinger (pseudonym: Felix Dhünen; born January 5, 1896 in Germersheim / Rhine Palatinate, † December 8, 1939 in Berlin) was a German film director, actor, director and writer.
Life
Sondinger a time he lived as a sculptor in Munich and later in Italy and in Naumburg an der Saale. In the 1920s, worked as an actor and director in Berlin; so he staged in 1924 at the Renaissance Theatre Boubouroche by Georges Courteline (premiered on 13 December 1924). Since the late 1920s he worked at the theater in the monastery road. His productions there included Carl Zuckmayers successful play The Merry Vineyard ( 500th performance on 21 January 1931), Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening (premiered on 28 January 1930; Sondinger had previously directed several pieces Wedekind ) and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author ( first performance on 22 April 1930). Since January 1930 he was also director of this theater. Founded the National Socialist People's Stage, a critics such as Herbert Jhering as aesthetically unsatisfactory Assessed ideological counterpoint to the left Piscatorschen Volksbühne, in November 1930 for one season in the theater in the monastery road. - Under his aegis, pulled the 1927/28, by Robert Rohde (1883? )
After the transfer of power to the Nazis in 1933, he worked as a teacher at the Max Reinhardt School. In the season 1933/34 he played and staged at the Prussian State Theatre in Berlin. In 1936, he led the theater in Saarlandstrasse directed Gerhart Hauptmann's Michael Kramer with Paul Wegener in the title role.
In addition to his theater work, he was, under the pseudonym " Felix Dhünen ", also a writer. He became famous for his much played in the 1930 drama Uta of Naumburg (1934 ), in which on the basis of (through the photographs Walter Heges extremely popular ) Statue of Uta in Naumburg Cathedral of the battle between German paganism to the " German character " not appropriate Christianity is discussed in the 11th century. His second piece of dream match for St. Helena (1935 ) treated in dream visions, the relationship between the dying Napoleon I and his son Napoleon II, Duke of Imperial City, the vain attempts to emulate him and then decides against his father. In the drama The sun of Ireland ( 1936 ) tells the story Sondinger of Tristan and Isolde.
In the staged in Berlin in August 1936 XI. Summer Olympics took Sondinger in the " Lyrical works" part. With his poem The runner on the messenger, after the battle of Marathon, the message of victory ( " Great was the victory. Whoever brings him to Athens ?") Delivers, he won the Olympic gold medal. Appeared in 1939, the poem as a bibliophile edition with a pen drawing by Ludwig von Hofmann in pressure.
Sondinger died at the age of 43 years; Shortly before his death in 1939, he headed the Schiller Theatre reopened the capital of Berlin, the samples comedy The golden roof of ' Eberhard Foerster ". The Berlin premiere took place on December 12, 1939, the day of Sondingers burial in the West Stahnsdorf instead.
Works
All under the pseudonym " Felix Dhünen ".
Dramas
- Uta of Naumburg. Drama in three acts. Bloch, Berlin 1934 (premiered in 1934 in Gera ).
- Dream game to St. Helena. Bloch, Berlin 1935
- The sun of Ireland. Drama in 5 acts. Bloch, Berlin 1936 (premiered in 1936 in Gera ).
- King of Rome. Tragi-comedy in a prologue and five acts. Publisher German playwright and composer for the stage, Berlin 1939 ( premiere: posthumously in 1940 in Kiel)
Poetry
- The runner. Hauswedell, Hamburg 1939
Prose
- The Naumburg Cathedral. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1930? ( Reprint from: Velhagen & Klasing Monatshefte )
- As the game 's started. The story of a Munich cadets. Beck, Munich, 1939.