Arthur Bohnhardt

Arthur Bohnhardt (born May 3, 1896 in Blankenhain ; † February 21, 1980 in West Berlin ) was a German violinist and conductor . He was first concertmaster of the Halle City Theater . In 1946 he was still the founding conductor of the Halle Symphony Orchestra . In the 1950s he was the victim of political persecution in the GDR and last lived in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Arthur Bohnhardt was born in Blankenhain in the Weimar district in 1896. He first learned to play the violin in Weimar from Joachim's student Hans Kötscher . He later studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig , where from 1913 Thomas organist Karl Straube was one of his teachers. In 1918 he completed his studies with the state examination. He received further instruction from Henri Marteau and Hans Bassermann in Berlin.

He appeared as a soloist in Eisenach and the region. In the 1919/20 season he was appointed second concertmaster at the Halle City Theater . From 1926 he worked as a freelance artist and teacher. He founded a training institute that was affiliated with the Reich Association of German Tonkünstler and Music Teachers . Together with the conductor Hans Roessert , he founded the Mitteldeutsche Kampfbund Orchestra on March 24, 1933 . After setting up a string quartet with like-minded people (Prescher, Koch, Kleist) as early as 1926, he was the first violinist of the Bohnhardt Quartet from 1938 to 1943 , with Hans Bülow (violin), Otto Gutschlicht (viola) and Fritz Schertel as well (Cello) belonged to. In 1946 he founded the Halle Symphony Orchestra with around 30 musicians , which he directed until 1949. In 1947 he also became a lecturer at the State University for Theater and Music Halle .

On October 10, 1950, he was arrested in Halle (Saale) . An indictment followed because "after May 8, 1945 he seemed to have endangered the peace of the German people by inventing and spreading tendentious rumors". On November 14, 1950, he received a one-year prison sentence. In addition, he was imposed 5 more years of "atonement" of the commandant service . He had to serve his entire sentence first in the prison of the People's Police in Halle and from April 28, 1951 in the Luckau prison in the state of Brandenburg . A revision and a pardon were not granted. He was released on December 26, 1951.

In 1952 he went to West Berlin , where he made chamber and church music and played on the radio. From December 1956 to November 1964 he was, with interruptions, a permanent assistant (violins II) in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1963 he worked at a music school and gave private lessons.

Bohnhardt was married and the father of two children.

literature

Gerassimos Avgerinos: Artist Biographies. Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882–1972 . G. Avgerinos, Berlin 1972, p. 29.
Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 23ff.

Web links

Arthur Bohnhardt at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Arthur Bohnhardt , catalogus-professorum-halensis.de, accessed: April 17, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gerassimos Avgerinos: artist biographies. Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882–1972 . G. Avgerinos, Berlin 1972, p. 29.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Published by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 24f.
^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 77.
↑ Gisela Heine: Tradition and Modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.

personal data
SURNAME	Bohnhardt, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blankenhain
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1980
Place of death	West Berlin

[CPH-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Arthur Bohnhardt , catalogus-professorum-halensis.de, accessed: April 17, 2020.

[Avgerinos-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gerassimos Avgerinos: artist biographies. Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882–1972 . G. Avgerinos, Berlin 1972, p. 29.

[Baselt24f-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Published by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 24f.

[4] Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 77.

[5] Gisela Heine: Tradition and Modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.