Hanna Jordan

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Hanna Jordan (born April 3, 1921 in Elberfeld , † January 26, 2014 in Wuppertal ) was a German stage and costume designer . She lived in Wuppertal.

life and work

Because of her mother's Jewish descent, Hanna Jordan spent the time between 1935 and 1939, her “best school days”, at the Quaker School in Eerde in the Netherlands. Even then she felt an intense love for theater and was involved in the design of the school's theater productions. In 1939 she returned to Germany and first attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , then the Folkwang School in Essen , but had to go into hiding due to persecution by the Nazi regime . After the war, Hanna Jordan was active in the ruins of Düsseldorf with political cabaret.

An anecdote from this time reports that Hanna Jordan occasionally ran the director's dog at the Wuppertal theater and this reference earned her her first commission in 1948 to design the set and costumes for Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol's The Marriage . From 1945 Hanna Jordan worked at the Wuppertaler Bühnen , from 1956 at the rebuilt Opera House in Barmen , from 1966 at the Schauspielhaus in Elberfeld . She later made guest appearances on stages in Stuttgart , Hamburg , Munich , Berlin and Vienna . She was a pioneer in the WDR - television with productions like Napoleon in New Orleans (1959) and you will die, Sire (1964).

Hanna Jordan worked successfully with directors such as Friedrich Meyer-Oertel , Kurt Horres , Rudolf Noelte , Imo Moszkowicz and Peter Palitzsch . However , there was no “chemistry” with the head of the Wuppertal dance theater , Pina Bausch . Leoš Janáček's opera Jenůfa was Hanna Jordan's farewell production in 1990 at the Wuppertal Opera House.

Hanna Jordan was a practicing Quaker and co-founder of the Wuppertal neighborhood home. V. at the Platz der Republik and active on the board until 2000. She was also involved in the Wuppertal Amnesty International initiative. In Quaker circles, Hanna Jordan was known for her satirical illustrations in Quaker magazine . Her series "Quaker House Mouse" began in September 1989 and ended in November 2008, almost 20 years later. During this time 49 drawings were published. She also remained connected to the Quaker School Eerde all her life and participated in the organization of old school meetings.

Hanna Jordan died in January 2014 at the age of 92.

Honors

Hanna Jordan was awarded the Eduard von der Heydt Culture Prize in 1965 and the Wuppertal Ring of Honor in 1994 . Since 2001 she has been an honorary member of the Wuppertaler Bühnen.

Publications

  • Anne Linsel : World designs: The set designer Hanna Jordan . Klartext-Verlag, 2006 ISBN 978-3-89861-487-0 .
  • Anne Linsel: film portrait of Hanna Jordan (WDR 1991)
  • Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (ed.): Schools in exile. Repressed pedagogy after 1933 . rororo, Reinbek, 1983, ISBN 3-499-17789-7
  • Hanna Jordan: Schloß Eerde - a large Quaker work and its "oldies" , in: Quäker, magazine of German friends / Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Germany , German Annual Meeting eV, July / August 1997, pp. 144–151

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Linsel: A life for art and reconciliation: Hanna Jordan turns 90 today ; Westdeutsche Zeitung, April 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (ed.): Schools in Exile , p. 160
  3. ^ Napoleon in New Orleans The Internet Movie Database, accessed May 2008
  4. ^ They Will Die, Sire The Internet Movie Database, accessed May 2008
  5. ↑ Quäker 6/2008, page 310, ISSN  1619-0394
  6. ↑ Hanna Jordan: Schloß Eerde - a large Quaker work and its "oldies"
  7. ^ Mourning for Hanna Jordan ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); Obituary of the city of Wuppertal from January 27, 2014
  8. ^ Anne Linsel: "Reconciler" Hanna Jordan has died ; Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from January 27, 2014
  9. ↑ Anne Linsel - World Designs - The stage designer Hanna Jordan ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Klartext Verlag, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2014
Place of death Wuppertal