Erich Weidner
Erich Weidner , in Lithuania Erich Bela (born April 5, 1898 in Nonnenweier in Baden , † February 27, 1973 in Karlsruhe ) was a German theater director and director .
Weidner graduated from high school in 1916 and was a soldier in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 . He was wounded and detached from the front. 1919–1924 he studied German at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen . In 1924 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg on the subject of the woman as bearer of fate: Comparison Strindberg - Hebbel to Dr. phil. 1913–1925 he had taken acting lessons. In 1925 he received his first engagement at the Badisches Landestheater in Karlsruhe . 1928–1931 he was director and dramaturge at the city theaters of Stolp and Danzig . Then he was for a time director of the United City Theater Konstanz-Schaffhausen-Winterthur . When he was deposed as “politically intolerable” in 1933, he emigrated to Switzerland and became director of the Schaffhausen City Theater there . In 1937 he became an actor and director at the City Theater in Memel ( Klaipėda ). After the invasion of German troops in 1940, Weidner was interned in Birkenwalde until 1943. After the war he became director of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . From 1946 to 1953 he was artistic director at the Heilbronn City Theater .
literature
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus, ed.), Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 477.
- Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigrants after 1933 , Volume 2, 1983.
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SURNAME | Weidner, Erich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bela, Erich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1898 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nonnenweier , Baden |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1973 |
Place of death | Karlsruhe |