Bernhard Diebold
| Bernhard Diebold | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bernhard Ludwig Dreifus 3 January 1886 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Died | 9 August 1945 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Alma mater | Burgtheater, Vienna |
| Occupation | theatre critic journalist/essayist writer |
| Spouse(s) | Gabrielle Maria Betz (1887–1951) |
| Children | 2 s |
| Parent(s) | Michel Wolf Dreifus (1816–77) Emilie Louise Diebold (1848–1932) |
Bernhard Diebold (born Bernhard Dreifus: 6 January 1886 - 9 August 1945) was a Swiss theatre critic and writer.
Bernhard Ludwig Dreifus was born into a protestant family in Zürich. His father, Bernhard Dreifus (1844–1929), was a Zürich businessman, originally from Aargau. His mother, Emilie Louise Diebold (1848–1932), came from a well established Zürich family. His parents divorced in 1900 following which, in 1902, he registered a name change from Bernhard Dreifus to Bernhard Diebold.
Between 1904 and 1906 he studied Law at Zürich, cutting short his studies and moving to Vienna in 1906, possibly inspired by Josef Kainz. He volunteered at the city's Court Theatre ("Burgtheater"), taking small stage parts and studying at its theatre school between 1906 and 1908. He went on to study Drama and Germanistics in Vienna and Berlin. His teachers at Berlin included Max Herrmann and Erich Schmidt. It was Herrmann who supervised his doctorate, which he received at Bern in 1912 for a piece of work on "The role of comportment in eighteenth century theatre" ("Das Rollenfach im deutschen Theaterbetrieb des 18. Jahrhunderts"), which was published the next year as a small book.
Diebold lived in Munich from 1913, working as a Dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus (as the "Kammerspiele" theatre was known at that time)). At the same time he write his first theatre critiques and reviews. In 1917 he relocated again, to Frankfurt where he worked as an editor on the Feuilleton section of the city's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Since 1916 he had also been contributing arts related pieces to other newspapers, notably the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, but the principal focus of his newspaper career nevertheless remained on the FAZ for the rest of his career in Germany, which lasted till 1935. In addition to theatrical critiques he became known for his essays, travel reports and light-hearted opinion pieces ("scherzhafte Feuilletons").
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