Georg Hartmann (General Manager)
Georg Hans Julius Wenzel Hartmann (born February 19, 1891 in Nuremberg , † April 9, 1972 in Munich ) was a German opera director and artistic director.
career
Hartmann was born the son of Georg Hartmann Senior and attended high schools in Königsberg and Essen . He then studied geography and art history in Marburg and Munich and received his doctorate with a thesis on the artistic director Karl Theodor von Küstner .
Hartmann began his theater career via Meiningen , Erfurt and Hanover in 1920 to the Dresden State Opera . In 1923 he was first director in Lübeck. In 1925 he moved to Dessau in the same position and in 1929 to Breslau .
The Nazis urged him to give up the post, but was able to move to Dortmund through the mediation of Wilhelm Furtwängler and then also became director there in 1934. In 1937 he went to Duisburg and with its ensemble he came to the Deutsche Oper in Prague in 1943 .
In 1946 he came again to Dessau, but was then appointed as state director at the National Theater in Munich . He then worked primarily as a guest director on several stages.
Honors
- 1967: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1964: Bavarian Order of Merit
Publications
- Küstner and the Munich Court Theater (1833–1842). A contribution to Munich's theater history. Dresden 1914.
literature
- Horst Seeger : Opera Lexicon. Berlin 1988, p. 293.
Web links
- 100 years of the city theater - the first director and in the Lübeck city newspaper from April 22, 2008
- Georg Hartmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Johann Nepomuk von Poißl (1824–1848) | Karl Theodor von Küstner (1848–1851) | Franz von Dingelstedt (1851–1858) | Karl von Perfall (1868–1892) | Ernst von Possart (1893–1906) | Albert von Speidel (1907–1912) | Clemens von Franckenstein (1912–1918) | Viktor Schwanneke (1918) | Karl Zeiss (1919–1924) | Clemens von Franckenstein (1924–1934) | Hans Knappertsbusch (1934–1935) | Oskar Walleck (1935–1938) | Clemens Krauss (1938–1940) | Georg Hartmann (1945–1952) | Rudolf Hartmann (1952–1967) | Günther Rennert (1967–1976) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1976–1977) | August Everding (1977–1982) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1982–1993) | Peter Jonas (1993-2006) | Kent Nagano , Roland Schwab and Ulrike Hessler (2006–2008) | Nikolaus Bachler (since 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartmann, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartmann, Georg Hans Julius Wenzel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director and artistic director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1972 |
| Place of death | Munich |