Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff

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Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff (born March 13, 1912 in Munich ; † June 19, 2002 in Glienicke / Nordbahn ) was a German theater scholar and from 1961 to 1969 rector of the Leipzig Theater Academy .

Life

Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff is the older of the two sons of the writer and resistance fighter Adam Kuckhoff . It comes from his first marriage to the actress Mie Paulun .

Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff spent the first years of his life in a monastery children's home, later he lived in boarding schools for most of his youth. After the parents divorced, the mother married the actor Hans Otto , who as a stepfather became the main reference person for Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff. The stepfather was murdered by the Nazis in 1933 as the first actor in the Prussian State Theater, the father as a member of the Rote Kapelle resistance movement in 1943. Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff was only partially influenced by this anti-fascist environment; in 1937 he joined the NSDAP and was a soldier in World War II .

After the war he became a member of the KPD and after the forced unification of the SED . He was commissioned to set up a theater studies department, which later became an independent university in Leipzig.

He enjoyed a long friendship with the literary scholar Hans Mayer , with the director Götz Friedrich and the artistic director of the Komische Oper Harry Kupfer .

In 2000 he married Ursula Werner-Böhnke , with whom he lived until his death.

Awards

In 1965 he received the Lessing Prize of the GDR and in 1988 the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

literature

  • Those who stand in eternity ... - Armin G. Kuckhoff tells - notes - published - Selection and preface: Ursula Böhnke-Kuckhoff; BoD 2006 ISBN 3-8334-3185-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 186.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1988, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Kuckhoff, Armin-Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2002
Place of death Glienicke / Northern Railway