Alfred Roller

Alfred Roller ( born October 2, 1864 in Brno, Moravia, † June 21, 1935 in Vienna ) was an Austrian stage designer, painter and printmaker.

Life and work

Scooter was co-founder in 1897 and 1902 president of the Vienna Secession, of which he in 1905 but separated. In 1903 he was called as the successor of Heinrich Lefler of Gustav Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera and reformed in a congenial working with Mahler the scenic art in the sense of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk ( interaction of space, color and light with music, words and gestures ). After 1909 he was also set designer among other things, the Burgtheater. Roller made ​​the outfits for all Viennese Richard Strauss premieres. Later, it came to a close collaboration with Max Reinhardt, with whom he was also a teacher at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in 1929.

The most well-known admirer of Rollers work was Adolf Hitler, who wanted to go in 1908 after his move from Linz to Vienna, at Roller in the doctrine originally. For this purpose, wrote a letter of recommendation to a friend Linzer Roller. Werner Maser wrote in his biography of Hitler, scooters had then received Hitler to a meeting and conveyed to a sculptor named Panholzer. However, according to recent research by Brigitte Hamann ( Hitler's Vienna, 1998), Hitler had this opportunity unused after he had already made ​​representations to the Court Opera, he left them again, so that an encounter with the revered scooter did not materialize. Roller Twenty five years later, he learned to know, after he had become Chancellor.

1920 scooter was with Richard Strauss and Max Reinhardt founder of the Salzburg Festival and created the first equipment to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Everyman. In the year before his death Roller created in 1934 at the request of Hitler sets the stage for the Bayreuth Parsifal.