Carl Stueber

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Carl Wilhelm August Stueber (born June 18, 1893 in Trier ; † August 4, 1984 in Munich ) was a German composer and musicologist and, from 1933 to 1945, director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and Reichsender Leipzig .

Life

Born the son of a dentist, Stueber initially worked as an actor and director in Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt . From October 1924 he worked at the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main as a program assistant, later as a program officer. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Stueber was there transmission conductor from April 1933rd He had been working for the cultural and political section of the Völkischer Beobachter since 1926 and joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1932 . On July 1, 1933, Stueber became the director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (from 1934 Reichsender Leipzig). At the beginning of the Second World War, after the attack on Poland , Stueber took care of the start of broadcasting on September 6, 1939 on behalf of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft and the Reich Propaganda Ministry with a staff of employees.

After 1945 Stueber worked as a composer, so he wrote the score for fairy tale films such as Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs (1955), Tischlein, deck dich (1956) and the children's film Die Heinzelmännchen .

Web links

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  • German Guide Lexicon 1933/34 . Publishing house Otto Stollberg, Berlin 1934, p. 483.
  • Ansgar Diller: Broadcasting Policy in the Third Reich . (= Rundfunk in Deutschland Volume 2 ) Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-03184-0 , pp. 116–118.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register, Trier registry office, No. 476/1893
  2. ↑ Death register, registry office II, Munich, No. 3238/1984
personal data
SURNAME Stueber, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stueber, Carl Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musicologist and director of the MDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1984
Place of death Munich