RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Herrmann, Matthias
T1 "… zwischen Tschechen und Deutschen kulturell vermitteln". Erwin Schulhoff in the Artistic and Social Contexts of the First Half of the 20th Century
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2020
VO 31
IS 1
SP 50
OP 71
DO 10.5507/mo.2020.003
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-202001-0003.php
AB The Prague composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) is one of the most innovative musicians of the first half of the 20th century and was trained in Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, and Cologne. After the end of World War I, he dealt with Expressionism and Dadaism in his work. During his time in Dresden in 1919/20, he also sought contacts to the visual arts. In 1923 he returned to his hometown of Prague, found no permanent job and, in his unadjusted manner, got caught between the trenches of Czech and German culture. His increasing sympathy for communism brought with it the desire to emigrate to the Soviet Union after the German occupation of the Czech Republic in 1939, which was prevented by the German invasion in 1941. As a Soviet citizen, he and his son were arrested and interned in Wülzburg / Upper Bavaria. Schulhoff died there in 1942 as the son of a German mother and a Jewish father.