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.