Gerhart Wiesenhütter
Gerhart Wilhelm Robert Wiesenhütter (born August 12, 1912 in Dresden , † September 15, 1978 in Sondershausen ) was a German conductor and organist .
Life
The son of the businessman Robert Wiesenhütter and his wife Margarete, b. Even as a schoolboy, Koch played the organ at church services. He was also a member of the church choir of the Johanneskirche in Dresden. From 1928 to 1934 he studied organ and conducting with Alfred Kutschbach at the State Orchestra School of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden .
In 1934 Wiesenhütter became the city conductor in Glauchau , in 1941 first conductor at the Saarbrücken city theater and in 1942 first conductor of the Westmark Ludwigshafen State Symphony Orchestra . In 1943 he went to the Staatskapelle Karlsruhe , until he was drafted as an office messenger in Niederau in 1944 . After the war he became deputy mayor of Weinböhla until he went to Dresden on June 1, 1945 and became the conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic . In November 1945 he was awarded the title of General Music Director.
With the resumption of broadcasting after the war on June 1, 1946, Wiesenhütter became the chief musical director of the Leipzig station, to which the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra also belonged from August 1, 1946 . Wiesenhütter quickly built up a first-class, musically diverse orchestra. The orchestra achieved the level of an A-class orchestra within a very short time. As early as autumn 1948, Wiesenhütter was exposed to massive hostility within broadcasting. He was accused of “anti-party and anti-Soviet behavior” as well as pushing and preparing his escape to the West. Possibly the motive was personal resentment and intrigues of an orchestra member about whose poor performance Wiesenhütter complained. Wiesenhütter stayed away from the party meeting, which decided on September 27, 1948, because of an engagement with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in Berlin . The SED operating party group of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk took the unanimous decision to expel Gerhart Wiesenhütter from the SED in absentia. Thereupon he was dismissed without notice as general music director.
This was followed in 1948/49 as general music director at the Landestheater Halle and from 1955 to 1957 as musical director at the Rostock Volkstheater and Metropol-Theater in Berlin. From 1958 Wiesenhütter worked with the Loh Orchestra in Sondershausen , until the end of 1958 as a guest conductor and until 1970 as artistic director. During this time he worked in the 1967/68 season as director of the Egyptian Symphony Orchestra in Cairo . From 1970 to 1975 Wiesenhütter was chief conductor of the Gotha State Symphony Orchestra . After that he was freelance.
Gerhart Wiesenhütter was married twice and had a son and a daughter from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage.
Awards
- 1967: Art Prize of the GDR
literature
- Wiesenhütter, Gerhart . In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 717.
- Jörg Clemen; Steffen Lieberwirth : Central German radio. The history of the symphony orchestra. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , pp. 98-106.
- Helmut Köhler: Personalities in Sondershausen. Gerhart Wiesenhütter. Gerhart W., Sondershausen 2004.
- Nils Burchartz: Gerhart Wiesenhütter . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhart Wiesenhütter in the catalog of the German National Library
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesenhütter, Gerhart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiesenhütter, Gerhart Wilhelm Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1978 |
| Place of death | Sondershausen |