Gerhard Bönicke (conductor)

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Gerhard Bönicke (born September 17, 1913 in Wolmirsleben ; † July 22, 1999 in Hanover ) was a German conductor , theater director and Kapellmeister .

Life

Born in the small town Wolmirsleben in Magdeburg in the last years of the German Empire , succeeded Gerhard Bönicke early 1950s in Hanover a revival of there in 1949 in bankruptcy previous Thalia Theater , an operetta theater , for which the architect Ernst Friedrich Brockmann previously dedicated to Ernst -Winter hall in the Hanomag buildings.

Under Bönicke's direction, the Thalia-Theater was able to start from 1955. Only after about two decades had Bönicke to give up the Thalia-Theater in 1973 for economic reasons, but then took over the newly created position of First Kapellmeister for operetta and operetta at the opera house on August 1st Musical .

Until his retirement on July 31, 1981, Gerhard Bönicke also advocated upgrading the operetta in the opera house's repertoire.

literature

  • Wulf Konold (editor-in-chief), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author) and a .: The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 - 1986 , ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover, Hanover: Schlueter, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 204

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, it says about the Theater am Aegi: "[...] from 1958 also the domicile of the Thalia-Theater"; compare Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen: Aegidientorplatz 2 In: Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 75

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen : Bönicke, Gerhard. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 61.
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen: Brockmann, Ernst. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Bonicke, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, theater director and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolmirsleben
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1999
Place of death Hanover