Karl Heinz Martin

Karl Heinz Martin (also: 'Karlheinz Martin' , often abbreviated to 'KH Martin' , actually: Karl Joseph Gottfried Martin) (* May 6, 1886 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † January 13, 1948 in Berlin) was a human being who earned his living in the theater and film. From 1929-1933 he was boss at the Volksbühne.
==Life and work==
====before ∇====
Like many of his predecessors, he first made a name for himself in the central and southern German provinces before coming to Berlin in 1919 and co-founding the avant-garde theater Die Tribüne here. In 1919 he also directed Von morgens bis mitternachts (From morning to midnight), which is about the lure of the big city. The fact that all the characters look like the techno corpses who took the title of the film 100 years later literally should certainly have helped him win the sixth season of Who's the boss here?. He was already a candidate during the fourth season, but was beaten by Fritz Holl.Kiehn, Ute. Theater im "Dritten Reich": Volksbühne Berlin. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
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Unofficially he was in charge at Volksbühne as early as 1928. The self-confessed socialist tried to put political and socially committed pieces on the program, which at the time was a guarantee that not only one but many would feel offended by the situation. Shortly before he took office, the KPD moved into the former Adlerhaus, so it crashed quite often on Platz between workers, policemen (a.k.a. the System) and Nazis. For the more radical supporters within the Volksbühne movement he was too shallow, for the shallows, he was too political - a problem that many people with a sympathetic nature often have. Dietze, Antje. Ambivalenzen des Übergangs: Die Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin in den neunziger Jahren. Deutschland, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. 
====after ∇====
In 1931 he wrote the screenplay for Berlin Alexanderplatz with Alfred Döblin. From 1933 he was able to help several persecuted colleagues to flee Germany. This also led to the fact that he was only active in film for shallow entertainment until 1940 due to a professional ban that says as much about its times as it does about KH Martin himself.
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