Ernst Haeusserman

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Ernst Heinz Haeusserman (born June 3, 1916 in Leipzig ; † June 11, 1984 in Vienna ) was an Austrian theater director, director, writer and film producer.

Life

Ernst Häussermann, son of the castle actor Reinhold Häussermann (1884-1947), attended the Schottengymnasium and then studied under this spelling of his name at the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . In 1934 he made his debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in Sil-Varas Caprice . The popular young actor, who had already played with his father in the film A Star Falls From Heaven (1934), remained a member of the Burgtheater ensemble until 1938.

After the annexation of Austria , he had to emigrate to the USA in 1939 because of his Jewish origins , where he married Johanna "Hansi" Lothar (1918–1945). Ernst Lothar's daughter from his first marriage had fled to America with her father via Switzerland and Paris as early as 1938 and worked as Max Reinhardt's private secretary.

In America he took on the names "Ernst Haeusserman" or "Ernst Hausman" and acted in a dozen films in roles, most of which were so small that his name was not even mentioned. More significant, however, was that he was able to work as an assistant director to Max Reinhardt and learn to direct.

After his return to Austria as an American citizen, the cultural officer of the US occupying power was initially program director of the Rot-Weiß-Rot station in Salzburg and from 1948 to 1953 he was head of the film, theater and music department of the US embassy in Vienna, where The American-run Kosmos Theater was under him as well as the US touring theater. In the course of his further career he was director of Austria's most famous theaters: from 1954 to 1958 together with Franz Stoss at the Theater in der Josefstadt , from 1959 to 1968 at the Burgtheater - “as director of the Burgtheater from 1959 to 1968 he was mainly responsible for the classical theater in particular Johann Nestroy, Franz Grillparzer, Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal ”- and from 1977 until his death in 1984 again - this time alone - at the theater in der Josefstadt and the connected Kammerspiele as well as the small theater in the Konzerthaus. During these extremely productive years, 533 pieces by 295 authors were performed under Haeusserman's direction. With him as head of the theater, according to Rolf Hochhuth , an era came to an end when he was “the last of his generation at all, not just in Austria”, “who was still loyal to those poets ... those of Max Reinhardt, Haeussermann's decisive Teachers ... who once stepped on the boards ”.

Haeusserman was also director of the theater section from 1961 as a member of the board of directors of the Salzburg Festival . After years as a lecturer , he was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1965 , where he held his inaugural lecture on February 24, 1966 with the title “Film and Television - Art or Applied Arts”. From 1975 he headed the Institute for Cultural Management together with Marcel Prawy and directed a number of (TV) films. A popular meeting place both in Vienna and in Salzburg was his regulars' table, where not only theater people met. During his Burgtheater Directorate studied the university professor as a mature work student at the University of Vienna drama and in 1966 the now "denazified" Heinz Kindermann with his dissertation "Max Reinhardt's theater work in America," Dr. phil. PhD. Two years later, the former emigrant also published a biography of Herbert von Karajan (allegedly with a factual error regarding his grandfather).

In addition to caring for the classics and the Austrian playwrights of the past, Haeusserman has also taken care of contemporary playwrights, for example Felix Mitterer's Changes (1979) owe it to him, but on the other hand he was, together with Hans Weigel and Friedrich Torberg, also for the Brecht- Boycott responsible, in the course of which Bertolt Brecht was not played on stages in Vienna between 1956 and 1963. In his second marriage he was married to the castle actress Susi Nicoletti since 1954 .

His honorary grave is located like his father's grave in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 37, row 1, number 24), where he rests next to his wife Susi Nicoletti. In 1977 the Haeussermannweg in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him and his father Reinhold Häussermann.

Fonts

  • My friend henry . Documentary novel. Zsolnay, Vienna-Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-552-03505-2 .
  • Herbert von Karajan . Biography. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1968.
    Revised and expanded TB edition: Goldmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-33100-5 .
  • Herbert von Karajan . With discography and register. Molden, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-217-00793-X .
  • Under the spell of the Burgtheater. Speeches and essays . Edited and introduced by Jacques Hannak . Europa-Verlag, Vienna-Frankfurt-Zurich 1966.
  • The castle. The all-round horizon of a world theater . Hans Deutsch, Vienna-Stuttgart-Basel 1964.
  • The Vienna Burgtheater . With 13 color pictures by Erich Lessing and 192 black and white pictures . 2nd Edition. Molden, Vienna-Munich-Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-217-00517-1 .
  • From Sophocles to Grass. Ten years of the Burgtheater . Europa-Verlag, Vienna-Frankfurt-Zurich 1968.

Filmography

As a performer:

  • A star falls from the sky (1934, D: Max Neufeld)
  • Címzett ismeretlen (1935, D: Béla Gaàl)
  • Hitler's Madman (1943)
  • Calcium (1972)
  • All Over Again (1970)
  • The Great Magician - Max Reinhardt (1973) (TV)

As a director (documentaries / TV films):

  • Pepi Columbus . Documentary (1954)
  • Woe to the One Who Lies (1972)
  • Miss Else (1974)
  • The Rape of the Sabine Women (1976)
  • Berggasse 19 (1979)
  • The Dream a Life (1981)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Häussermann was particularly successful in the comic field, played on several German theaters and was brought to the Burgtheater in Vienna by Hugo Thimig in 1914 ; In 1946 he was awarded the title of ' Chamber actor award'. "Inlibris
  2. ↑ a b c German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) in 12 volumes , ed. Rudolf Vierhaus, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2005-2008², Vol. 4, ISBN 978-3-598-25030-9 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Georg Markus: Memories of perfectly normal Jewish geniuses , Part 3, In: NuNu , 2010, Issue 4. ( Accessed June 14, 2016)
  4. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Ernst Lothar . In: Marienthal. Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria AGSO, Graz 2008
  5. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Max Reinhardt . ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: AGSO, Graz 2008 (accessed on February 19, 2009)
  6. ↑ a b c d as Ernst Hausman, also Ernst Haeusserman, with film titles and directorial work in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ^ A b Obituaries: Ernst Haeusserman, Director In Austria and in Hollywood , obituary in the New York Times of June 12, 1984. Accessed on February 21, 2009 (English).
  8. ↑ a b Robert Jungk. Der Wissensvermittler , Interview with Peter Stephan Jungk (from the series: Worksheets for Non-Fiction Research No. 13, Historical Series No. 4, Berlin and Hildesheim, June 2007, p. 17 (PDF))
  9. ↑ a b Received the title of professor: (...) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 10, 1957, p. 8 , column 2, below ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ^ Franz Krahberger: German studies - a biased science
  11. ↑ Karajan Family : "The Lobl and Haeusserman biographies incorrectly state that Ludwig's brother, Maximilian, was Karajan's Grandfather"
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: ZDF Theaterkanal: Mitterer: "... In 1979 I received a play from Ernst Haeusserman ... ". (Accessed February 19, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.theaterkanal.de
  13. ↑ Heidrun Ultes-Nitsche: "I am a fine mixture of monarchies". Identity constructions in Friedrich Torberg's non-fictional texts , Verlag Kovač, Hamburg 2005: Page ???
  14. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  15. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Haeusserman, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haeussermann, Ernst; Häussermann, Ernst; Hausman, Ernst; Häuserman, Heinz; Haeusserman, Ernst Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1984
Place of death Vienna