Stephan Stompor

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Stephan Stompor (born February 14, 1931 in Königshütte (Upper Silesia) ; died October 23, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist and dramaturge .

Life

Stephan Stompor studied opera directing at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle with Heinz Rückert . From 1954 he worked as a director at the Brandenburg City Theater and the Schwerin State Theater , as a dramaturge at the Leipzig Opera House and as a director at the State Theater in Halle . In 1967 he became a dramaturge at the Komische Oper Berlin , where he worked with the directors Walter Felsenstein and Joachim Herz as well as with Götz Friedrich . In 1975 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on German-language performances of Handel's operas in the 18th century in Halle. Stompor published programs and libretti . He wrote articles on the history of music theater, in particular on the time of National Socialism . Due to his serious illness, parts of his work could only be published posthumously.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state . Edited by Andor Izsák , Susanne Borchers. Hanover: Europ. Center for Jewish Music, 2001
  • Artists in exile: in operas, concerts, operettas, dance theater, drama, cabaret, radio, film, music and theater studies as well as training in 62 countries. 2 volumes. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1994
  • The Komische Oper Berlin: past and present . Berlin: Komische Oper, 1991
  • Ilse Kobán, Stephan Stompor (eds.): Walter Felsenstein: Theater always has to be something total: letters, speeches, recordings, interviews . Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1986
  • Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave: La traviata: Opera in three acts . Translation of Walter Felsenstein. To the Stephan Stompor plant. Kassel: Bärenreiter; Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1984.
  • (Ed.): Otto Klemperer: About music and theater: memories, conversations, sketches . Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1982, 1993
  • (Ed.): Texts on the aesthetics, dramaturgy and performance practice of German opera in the 18th and 19th centuries . Berlin: Association of Theater Professionals of the German Democratic Republic, 1975
  • (Ed.): Texts on the aesthetics, dramaturgy and performance practice of the Deutsche Oper from its creation to the present: Statements by foreign composers, scholars and directors . Berlin: Association d. Theater professionals d. GDR, 1977
  • (Ed.): Music theater: Contributions to methodology and staging concepts . Walter Felsenstein, Joachim Herz. Leipzig: Reclam, 1976. After the escape from the GDR in 1972, in contrast to the 1970 edition without its contributions.
  • Sergej Prokofjew: life, work a. Work d. Soviet composers: on the occasion of d. 80th birthday of Prokofiev in April 1971 . Berlin: Society f. German-Soviet friendship, Cultural Policy Department, 1971.
  • (Ed.): Music theater: Contributions to the methodology and staging concepts. Walter Felsenstein, Götz Friedrich, Joachim Herz . Leipzig: Reclam, 1970
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Katerina Ismailowa: Opera in 4 acts (9 pictures); Version 1963 . From the Russ. trans. by Joachim Herz. Introduction by Stephan Stompor. Leipzig: Reclam 1965
  • Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy: Carmen: Opera in four acts . Text book. German version by Walter Felsenstein. Introduction by Stephan Stompor. Leipzig: Reclam, 1962
  • German-language performances of Handel's operas in the 18th century . Dissertation Halle, 1975

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Hennenberg: Stephan Stompor, Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state , review, at club independent liberaler.at


personal data
SURNAME Stompor, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Königshütte (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1995
Place of death Berlin