Peter Gorski
Peter Gorski, later Peter Gründgens Gorski, ( born November 7, 1921 in Berlin ) is a German theater director who has directed also in some films. In the years 1965-1971 Gorski prevented as an adopted son and sole heir of Gustaf in several lawsuits against the Nymphenburg Verlagsbuchhandlung the publication of Klaus Mann's novel Mephisto erschienenem 1936 in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Life
Gorski, who had taken up as a soldier in World War II for the first time in 1942 furlough in Berlin contact with Gründgens was later whose significant. Gründgens adopted Gorski in 1949 on the grounds that he has this had saved his life: " After Mr. Gorski has saved me in 1945 by his intrepid use of life arose between us, such a narrow community of life that causes me to accept now Mr. Gorski of a child,. "
Gorski began in the 1950s, a career as a director. In 1955, he was assistant director in the film Ripening youth. Currently the directorship of Gustaf at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, he directed several plays, such as 1957 Gerd Oelschlegels Comedy dust on the Paradise, 1958 Jules Romains ' comedy The Triumph of Medicine, 1960 Marcel Pagnol Monsieur Topaze, Dylan Thomas ' Under Milk Wood. and most recently in October 1963 Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, already under the direction of Oscar Fritz Schuh.
1960 Gorski was the director of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos at the Salzburg Festival.
Played In the film adaptation of the acclaimed Gründgens production of Faust I at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, at the Gründgens Mephisto, Gorski was entrusted with the direction of the film Faust ( 1960). The film was the official candidate of West Germany at the Academy Awards in 1961 as Best Foreign Film, failed to reach the nomination, but received the German Film Award in the same year as an outstanding documentary and film culture.
When the Nymphenburg Verlagsbuchhandlung after the death of Gustaf as part of a complete edition of the works of Klaus Mann and his novel Mephisto publish wanted Gorski complained as Gründgens ' sole heir in 1963, first in front of the Hamburg Court for an injunction on the grounds that the novel, which leaning on the life story of his adoptive father, " a false, grossly Offensive picture of Gründgens " draw. After dismissal of the action put Gorski 1965 before the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg on appeal, with the result that the distribution of the novel was banned. The publisher complained then at the Federal Court and the Federal Constitutional Court, which prohibited the 1971 sales of the novel as a last resort in event of a tie, because it is the protection of the ( post-mortem ) human dignity higher weighted as the freedom of art, see also Mephisto decision. When the novel was published in 1981, Random House, Gorski no longer complained against publication of the work.
1995 processed Gorski, who lived at that time in Mallorca, as the sole heir of Gründgens for possession claims on the estate Zeesenboot in King Wusterhausen. This villa owned by the Jewish banking family Goldschmidt was sold in 1935 at the instigation of Hermann Goering's half of the then rateable value of Gründgens what Gustaf later as " fairly frivolous" designated. After the end of World War II, the villa was used as a home for diplomats children amongst others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR. Restitution claims presented both Peter Gorski, as well as the descendants of the former owner and the Foreign Office .. 1998 began a new trial before the administrative court Cottbus, before the villa was awarded the descendants of Goldschmidt 1999.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Gustaf and a planned exhibition gave Peter Gorski of the Berlin State Library, a part of Gründgens ' estate with over 70 linear meters of documents. On the day of the exhibition opening, Gorski reported because of Klaus Mann's Mephisto novel re- word, the Berliner Zeitung Gorskis commented appearance as follows: "It had been rather embarrassing and inappropriate, as Gorski on the day of the exhibition opening on Klaus Mann and his" ill-informed " Roman scolded like a fishwife with a cane. "