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Gustav Rickelt (* 21. June 1862 in Dortmund; " 26 June 1946 in Wessobrunn, Upper Bavaria) was a German actor.

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On 21 June 1862, Gustav Rickelt was born as a son of a in Dortmund. Gustav Rickelt was an actor at the German theatre in Berlin under Otto Brahm (and otherwise). From 1914 to 1927 he was a president of the cooperative of German stage members (GDBA) and as such founders of the artist colony Berlin. It wrote its memoirs under the title "beautiful is the life".

Quotation: Since heavy economical conditions rested also on the actors in the commitment, we created an artist and a writer colony in the association with the defense association of the German writers outside at the in whom the members found pleasant, airy dwellings with all comfort against cheap rent. The Grundsteinlegung and the opening of this colony was an event for Berlin. A block followed second, third is understood in the building.

Gustav Rickelt, to which so much the German stage artists owe, had to become acquainted with at its old age wrong and isolation in nearly over-rich measure and endure. After the loss of its ausgebombten dwelling it left at the end of of 1943 Berlin, in order to find with a friendly landowner in Schlesien guest in a friendly manner offered accommodation. But not for a long time this stay lasted, because with the invasion of the Russian armies a long refugee way began, from camp to camp for Rickelt.

One of it at the beginning of of July 1945 at Erich Otto (GDBA) arranged postcard, which should communicate its place of residence, reached this by confusions of the post-war period only after 10 months. All attempts undertaken by the cooperative to determine and take up with it connection its whereabouts, were futile.

This suffering way found only with the collapse in the monastery hospital in Wessobrunn, Upper Bavaria, an end, where it on 26 June 1946, few days after completion its 84. Lebensjahres, lonely and nearly completely blind, died.

Cooperative of German stage members

The younger stage members know only few or nothing more of it and only a ever smaller becoming number of colleagues of the older actor generation, who were involved around the turn of the century actively or than contemporaries in the of the GDBA, will remember, which crucial role of Gustav Rickelt in these fights played by many years up to victories of the demands temperful represented by it.

The way comrade of Hermann Nissen and Carl Wallauer, always forward-storming, can undisputed the merit/service for itself in requirement take with the success of its work, that in the year 1919 for the first time final tariff and normal contract, the cooperative of German stage members to new banks to have led. Over 40 years of its life Rickelt dedicated to the stage cooperative. It each representative meeting saw 35 years. 1908 he was selected to the vice-president and 1914, after death by Hermann Nissen, to the president of the GDBA. Its successor Erich Otto and Carl Wallauer, which 1933 toward the Nazi friend Otto Laubinger from the office was pushed, became.

He was a speaker of large format, a unerschrockener and untiring fighter for the release of the stage artists from unworthy contractual chains, whose faith in the justice of its task managed it to upset itself all again and again up-piling up obstacles. In the long-continuous fights with the German theatre association a high point was reached in the year 1908. The arguments had accepted and intensified themselves one hardly more sharpness which can be over-bid ever more. Bad states of worst kind with the switching and employment of the stage members, Verweigerung of most primitive social demands and ignoring the human rights led to the fight of the German stage members led with embittering to free itself from unworthy and become intolerable chains to.

Gustav Rickelt tore the stage members of all degrees with its accusations enthusiastically with itself away. The public began to participate in the fate of the artists with large interest, and under the pressure of the cooperative and the public finally the German theatre association agreed to negotiations with the cooperative of German stage members.

But the common work on the creation of a new social industrial law went only very slowly forward and through the First World War for more than four years was interrupted. Immediately after completion of the war on operation of the cooperative the negotiations with theatre association were again taken up, finally to 12. May 1919 to the signature of the official contacts under the negotiated tariff and normal contract led and thus to the fulfilment of the demands represented by Gustav Rickelt by nearly 11 1/2 year. It had reached that with the worst bad states conclusion and all unworthy employment conditions were made were completely eliminated. The sample month, which gave the right to the stage leaders to away-dispatch an engaged member after the first four weeks again was eliminated. One gave up to the stage leaders, the stage members the necessary historical costumes (!) to supply. A regulation, which was in particular for the female members from extensive consequences.

The time of the necessary preliminary tests before beginning of a commitment, which were carried out free of charge up to then, had now with the full contract purchases paid. In the context of this essay it is not possible to enumerate the progress which was reached by treaty system in economic, social, legal and artistic area for the stage members and the today natural conditions for a conclusion of a contract to form. Also the largest optimists had not counted on such a victory. It is not unimportant to refer with the memory of Gustav Rickelt also to large successes and achievements of the work.

Rickelts efforts were supported by the reputation, which it possessed as a member famous of the Brahm ensemble, to which also Hermann Nissen belonged, in the artistic life of the old realm capital. Beside its artistic position came it its individual features, which persistence and a not breaking will zustatten. One must have experienced, like these placed underneath man for the center in former times of the annually taking place representative meetings, like its occurrence the meeting on a sensational summit main header, if him president Nissen, the sovereign led the pouring meeting, after call of the item on the agenda of "grievances and complaints" the word gave and Rickelt, under the left arm wedged thick bundles of files, to the Rednerpult walked. The grandstands in the assembly place, the "house of artists" in the Bellevuestrasse at the Potsdamer place in Berlin were breaking fully, because the members of the citizens of Berlin stages did not let be taken it to attend the remarks Rickelts. Also the places reserved for the press were not enough far away out, and a nearly seizable tension lay over the meeting, if Rickelt took the word to accusation speech for hours.

With the memory of Gustav Rickelt and his successful working over a few decades back into the historical development of the cooperative of German stage members becomes visible, which was carried out in these decades at sociopolitical work for the stage members and at artistic promotion of the German theatre. The level of the German theatres was generally lifted and thus the reputation and the meaning of the stage artists. This development was contributed crucially by Gustav Rickelt, and in the history of the GDBA the name of Gustav Rickelt, beside those from Hermann Nissen, Carl Wallauer will always take and not least from Ludwig Barnay, an honour place.

Literature and sources

Artist colony Berlin eV (archives)
Archives of the GDBA
Material of Martin Rickelt, actor (son) and Michael Rickelt, poet (grandchild) and member of the artist colony Berlin eV