Hans Müller-Einigen

Hans Müller- Some ( born October 25, 1882 in Brno, Austria - Hungary, now Czech Republic, † March 8, 1950 in Some, actually Hans Müller ) was a German writer, screenwriter and director. His younger brother was the writer Ernst Lothar.

Life

Hans Müller was the eldest son of three sons (Robert * 1887 * Ernst 1890), the lawyer Josef Müller and Johanna Wohlmuth. In 1897 the family moved to Vienna. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and in 1907 Dr. iur. doctorate. He also visited the universities of Grenoble and Leipzig, where he attended lectures on philosophy and music history and undertook further study trips through Europe and the United States.

According to publications during the study period, he soon became well known and was in the first two decades of the 20th century to the most played authors of the Vienna Burgtheater. The satirical comedy Hargudl the creek at its premiere in 1909 sparked one of the great scandals stage of this theater, the performance of the play The Flame 1920 was one of the great successes of the author.

Müller was living only in Vienna and then in Berlin. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood, where several movies have been filmed for its files (including Ernst Lubitsch ), returned to Berlin, where he was head dramaturg the film company UFA, where he dances for classics like The Congress was responsible ( Director: Erik Charell, music by Werner Richard Heymann ).

Stay ends success achieved Müller in the field of musical theater. On two of the most successful operetta of the 20th century, he was involved: Firstly, based the libretto of Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream (1907 ) on one of his literary models, on the other hand he himself was co-author with Ralph Benatzky The White Horse Inn (1930 ), for he worked the comedy template of Blumenthal and Kadelburg and einfügte the figure of the Emperor Franz Joseph. Furthermore, Müller wrote for the son of his close friend Julius Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the librettos for Violanta (1916) and The Miracle of Sunray (1927 ).

Since 1930 he lived in Some on Lake Thun in Switzerland along with his life partner Nicholas Black; He then made the place name to a part of his stage name.

1945 Müller returned only rarely returned to Vienna, where the folk theater The helper of God and Eugenie were listed.

Works

Hans Müller was attacked by Karl Kraus repeated sharp, so in the last days of humanity, and in a number of essays in the torch. His work is characterized by effective safe dramaturgy and often has a strong homoerotic undertones (such as in the ecstatic love fantasies of Violanta or the frivolous scenes in the White Horse Inn. ) This homosexual elements could be one reason why, according to Arthur Maibach that posterity largely Muller turned away because his sensual aesthetic is not " conservative " 1950s fit into the. But even a performance of the play The Flame 1980 was judged by critics as untimely.

Prose

  • Book of Adventure. Book jewelery by Lucian Bernhard. Fleischel, Berlin 1905 ( This is the novella Nux containing the Prince Consort, which served as a template for the operetta libretto for A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus. )
  • Secret country. Novels. Fleischel, Berlin, 1909.
  • Dreams and foams. Fleischel, Berlin 1911.
  • The art to look forward to. Figures, images and results. Cotta, Stuttgart 1917.
  • The Mirror of Agrippina. With 12 original etchings by Stefan Hlawa. Avalun, Vienna -Leipzig 1919.
  • The fire of Trukitzan. Narrative. Reclam, Leipzig 1925.
  • The lucky to be there. A diary. Francke, Bern 1940.
  • People are all the same. Three stories. Francke, Bern 1946.
  • Snuff. Story of a Friendship. Francke, Bern, 1944.
  • Catacomb. Storellini fiorentini. Drawings by Fritz Traffelet. Herbert Lang, Bern, 1950.

Poetry

  • Twilight. 1901
  • The alluring violin. A book of poems. A. Langen, Munich 1904.
  • The garden of life. A Biblical poetry. Cotta, Stuttgart 1904.
  • The Rose sounds. Poems. Fleischel, Berlin, 1909.
  • Trilogy of transformation. A poem sequence. O. V., o O., 1948.

Dramatic works

  • The other life. 1900
  • Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Comedy in one act O. V, o O., nd
  • The stronger life. A one-act cycle. Fleischel, Berlin, 1906.
  • Poor little woman. Drama in one act Bloch, Berlin, 1907.
  • The dolls school. Drama in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin, 1908.
  • Hargudl the creek or the Lodge of personalities. Comedy in four acts. Bloch, Berlin, 1909.
  • The Miracle of Beatus. Drama in four acts. Fleischel, Berlin, 1910.
  • Attitude. Irreverent comedy. German - Austrian Verlag, Wien -Leipzig 1912.
  • The lovely Adrian. Comedy in three acts. German - Austrian Verlag, Wien -Leipzig 1913.
  • Kings. A drama in three acts. Distributor of the Association of German writers, Berlin, 1916.
  • The Creator. A drama in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1918.
  • The stars. A drama in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1919.
  • The flame. Drama in three acts. Manuscript, Berlin 1920.
  • The shirt knobs. Comedy in one act. Reclam, Leipzig 1921.
  • The vampire or the hunted. Drama in five acts. Publisher of the " Neue Freie Presse", Vienna 1922.
  • The Tokay. Comedy in three acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1925.
  • Veronika. A piece of everyday life in four acts. Cotta, Stuttgart 1926.
  • The golden galley. A society play in three acts. Felix Bloch Erben, Berlin, 1927.
  • Holde Aida ...! A funny confusion in four images. Three masks Verlag, Berlin, 1934.
  • Happiness on heavenly peace. A farce in three acts. Three masks -Verlag, Berlin, 1935.
  • Eugenie. Study of a character and a time in five acts. Saturn, Vienna 1938.
  • The struggle for light. Drama in three acts. Francke, Bern 1939.
  • Little Waltz in A minor. Comedy in five images. Francke, Bern 1939.
  • If husbands days. ( The Nightingale Congress ). Schwank in three acts. Three masks publisher. Berlin 1944.
  • The helper of God. A fight for love in ten stations. Francke, Bern 1947.
  • Favorite of the Graces. A comedy from the time when it still had other worries. Francke, Bern 1950.
  • Journey of a woman. A play in six stations. Zsolnay, Vienna, nd ( after 1945 ).

Libretti

  • A Waltz Dream. Music: Oscar Straus. Doblinger, Vienna, 1907.
  • Violanta. Opera. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Schott, Mainz 1916.
  • The miracle of Sunray. Opera. After Hans Kaltnekers mystery The Holy. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Schott. Mainz 1927.
  • The White Horse Inn. Music: Ralph Benatzky. Charivari music Verlag, Berlin, 1930.
  • Tomorrow we are good! Six images from an old Viennese farce. Music: Ralph Benatzky. Charivari music Verlag, Berlin, 1932.
  • Lady # 1, right. Musical comedy in six images ( free after André Picard ). Song lyrics: Rudolf Bertram. Music: Werner Richard Heymann. Doremi Music Publishing, Basel, 1934.
  • Fresh wind from Canada. Joyous events in four days. A farce. Song lyrics: Hans Fritz Beckmann. Music: Herbert Walter. Three masks -Verlag, Berlin, 1934.
  • The richest man in the world. A piece of music in 5 images. Music by Ralph Benatzky. Felix Bloch Erben. Berlin 1936.
  • Paul and the Fall of Man. A farce in three acts. Lyrics by Hans Robert Bortfeldt. Music: Edmund von der Meden. Three masks -Verlag, Berlin, 1936.

Screenplays

Autobiographical writings

  • Beloved Earth. Miniatures of the road. Francke, Bern 1938.
  • Youth in Vienna. Memories of the most beautiful city in Europe. Francke, Bern 1945.
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