Rainer Schlösser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rainer Schlösser

German journalist and author

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1899

Place of Birth: Jena, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Aug-1945

Profession: author, dramaturge, journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Rainer Schlösser (sometimes anglicized as Schlosser or Schloesser; 28 July 1899 – 9 August 1945) was a German journalist and writer who held (1933-1945) the governmental post of Reichsdramaturg (Reich Drama Adviser) in the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Dr.
Joseph Goebbels and also (from 1935 to 1938) President of the Reichstheaterkammer or Reich Theatre Chamber, the state governing body for drama.
This was an even more important and high-profile position.
The equivalent body in the world of music, the Reichsmusikkammer, was headed by the world-famous composer Richard Strauss from 1933 to 1935. According to Dr.
Gerwin Strobl, an academic specialist on the Third Reich and its cultural extensions, in his book The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933-1945: "Future leading figures of Nazi theatre, such as Reichsdramaturg Rainer Schlösser, or Leader of the Hitler Youth and head of the Vienna theatre, Baldur von Schirach, are characteristic of the able, refined and literate group of men attracted by National Socialist promises of restoring German culture."