Anton Kohl (Intendant)
Anton Kohl (born May 27, 1886 in Eger , † 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German director and theater manager.
Anton Kohl came from Austria-Hungary , where he was born in Egerland in 1886 . From 1905 he worked for the theater industry and took over the theater there in Bad Gleichenberg . He then became game director in Kiel . He was involved in the reopening of the local theater in Stendal in the Prussian province of Saxony (today: Theater der Altmark ) in 1929 and was its director. During this time he became a member of the Kampfbund and the SS . After the National Socialists came to power , he was appointed director of the Grenzlandtheater Obererzgebirge in Annaberg, Saxony . Due to irregularities, he resigned from this position in January 1934. He went back to Eger to Czechoslovakia as a director , where the concession for the 1936/37 season was revoked by the state government in Prague due to his purely Aryan schedule and his National Socialist spirit, and the city theater in Eger on TG Masaryk Square was closed. In 1938 Anton Kohl became director of the German theater in Bielitz , where he initially had all Jewish actors removed. After the end of the war he settled in Breisgau, where he was 81 years old in Freiburg as director i. R. died.
literature
- Thomas Eicher, Barbara Panse, Henning Rischbieter: Theater in the Third Reich , 2002
- Bärbel Schader: "Revocable at any time". The Reich Chamber of Culture and the special permits for theater and film in the Nazi state 1933–1945 , 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Heike: The German minority in Poland until 1939 , 1985
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohl, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and theater manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eger |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1967 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |