Andreas Meyer-Hanno

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Andreas Meyer-Hanno

Andreas Meyer-Hanno (born February 18, 1932 in Berlin ; † September 7, 2006 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an opera director, university professor and gay activist. After his childhood and youth in Berlin, he lived in Wuppertal , Karlsruhe , Braunschweig and Frankfurt am Main.

childhood

Andreas Meyer-Hanno was born in Berlin as the son of a Jewish pianist and a communist actor. Andreas Meyer-Hanno's parents were Hans Meyer-Hanno and Irene nee Sager . The father was an actor, last until his arrest in 1944, at the Berlin Schiller Theater under Heinrich George . He worked in two resistance groups against the Nazi regime . During his childhood, Andreas Meyer-Hanno lived with his family in the Berlin artists' colony , a last refuge for anti-fascists during the Nazi era, at Berlin Laubenheimer Platz 2. From 1942 onwards, as a result of a Goebbels decree, like all so-called "half and Quarterly Jewish children were excluded from attending secondary schools.

education and profession

In 1949 he began to study music and theater studies. After receiving his doctorate in 1956, he was hired as assistant director for the opera in Wuppertal, where he was second director from 1959 to 1964. From 1964 to 1972 he was senior opera director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and from 1972 to 1976 at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . In his 20 years in the theater he has produced over 100 operas . In 1976 he accepted the call as a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music , where he taught as stage director until his retirement in 1993.

Gay movement

Grave site, Großgörschenstrasse 12, in Berlin-Schöneberg
  • In 1973, while working at the Braunschweig State Theater, he joined the regional gay group AHB (Braunschweig Homosexuality Working Group).
  • In Frankfurt he was a member of the Frankfurt gay center "other shore" and founded the gay theater ensemble "Die Maintöchter" with friends. In the gay center and in private circles, Andreas Meyer-Hanno was sometimes called Hannchen, which resulted from the second part of his surname. The main daughters considered him “the mother of the main daughters” because on the one hand he was the oldest and on the other hand he was an opera and theater director.
  • From 1989 to 1994 he was involved in the " Homosexual Persecution Memorial " in Frankfurt am Main, which was built on the specially renamed Klaus-Mann-Platz (formerly Schäfergasse). The Frankfurt memorial was the first Federal German memorial to commemorate the persecuted and murdered gay and lesbian victims of the Nazi regime .
  • In 1980 he was one of the founding members of the Homosexual Self-Help Association (HS), a financial network for people who need (financial) support due to their sexual orientation or identity. As a consequence of his work at HS, he founded the “ Hannchen- Mehr Zweck -Stiftung ” (hms) in 1991 , which was originally built up almost entirely from his private assets.

Awards

  • In 1993 Meyer-Hanno received the Roman plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main , as well
  • also in 1993 the "Rosa Courage" award in Osnabrück.
  • On December 15, 2000, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services to gay emancipation and his life's work .

Further life

Meyer-Hanno took part in the film "Stolz und Schwul" by Rosa von Praunheim in 1991 . In 2001, Andreas Meyer-Hanno largely withdrew from work at the HS and hms in order to devote more time to lecturing and to concentrate on writing. Due to HIV and age-related illnesses such as diabetes, hospital stays increased in the last years of his life. In addition to his underlying illnesses, he was diagnosed with cancer in August 2006, of which he died on September 7, 2006 in a Frankfurt clinic. He was buried on November 4, 2006 in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin .

literature

  • Detlef Grumbach (co-author and editor, pp. 7–89), Andreas Meyer-Hanno (various texts [selection 1985 to 2001] from the estate, pp. 91–186) and Manfred Roth (co-author, p.188–202): Great opera: Andreas Meyer-Hanno, the gay movement and the Hannchen multi-purpose foundation, Männerschwarm Verlag. Hamburg. 2018. 216 pp. ISBN 978-3-86300-253-4

Web links

Commons : Andreas Meyer-Hanno  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ^ Obituary: On the death of Andreas Meyer-Hanno , Whk , September 8, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Hanno, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannchen multipurpose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gay activist and music professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2006
Place of death Frankfurt am Main