Georg Pierson
Henry Georg Pierson (* 1851 in Hamburg ; † February 16, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German theater director .
Life
Georg Pierson, son of the composer Henry Hugo Pierson , showed special inclinations for theater and music from an early age. After attending school in Hamburg , he first trained as a bookseller . After completing his apprenticeship, Pierson got jobs as a bookseller in Stuttgart and Dresden . Together with his older brother Edgar Mansfield Pierson, Henry founded the E. Pierson publishing house in Dresden, which his brother managed to continue successfully on his own.
In addition, Pierson made the acquaintance of General Manager Graf von Hochberg through his participation in the Silesian Music Festival . Hochberg arranged the job of a secretary at the Royal Theater in Berlin for those interested in music and theater . Here Pierson devoted himself intensively to the design and deepening of the game plan and was successful, which was finally recognized by the royal court: The former bookseller was appointed director of the stage in 1896 and soon received the title of Privy Councilor . But there was not only praise for the work, petty criticism and malicious attacks were not lacking .
In Dresden Pierson had met the opera singer Bertha Brethol, who had previously celebrated triumphs at all leading opera houses in the world, she also shone at the Dresden Court Opera ; they married in 1882. Bertha received an engagement at the Hofoper Berlin in 1888 and was able to follow her husband to the Prussian capital. At his request, however, she gave up her singing career in favor of family life. The couple lived at Potsdamer Strasse 121.
The ambivalent demands on an artistic director - on the one hand, the perception of responsibility for the prosperity of the Royal Court stage in Berlin, in particular to promote and raise awareness and dissemination of the "modern" literature and music with absolute respect for the imperial ideas and on the other hand to prevent performances, which could have worked or could have been understood against the taste of the ruler - Henry Pierson effectively united in his work. For example, Pierson had to decide whether to start new performances such as the opera Der Wald by Ethel Smyth .
In an obituary for the early death of the theater director in the magazine Berliner Leben from 1902 it says: "In the history of our royal theaters the name Pierson is emblazoned in indelible letters."
His widow stayed in Berlin, but had moved to Hohenzollerndamm 204 in Wilmersdorf . After 1943 she died here.
literature
- 'Berliner Leben' magazine, 1902, issue 2, pp. 37/38 : An obituary for Pierson's early death.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bertha Pierson at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- ^ Pierson, Henry> Go. Reg. Rath, Direct. d. Gen. Intend. d. Kgl. Spectacles . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, I.
- ↑ Sabine Brombach (ed.) And Bettina Wahrig (ed.): LebensBilder: Life and Subjectivity in Newer Approaches to Gender Studies. Publishing house, 2004; Retrieved January 5, 2017, p. 77.
- ^ In the Berlin address book of 1943 the name Bert (h) a Pierson is still included.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pierson, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pierson, Henry Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1902 |
| Place of death | Berlin |