Hanning Schröder

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Memorial plaque for Hanning Schröder and Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach at Quermatenweg 148, Berlin-Zehlendorf

Hanning Schröder (born July 4, 1896 in Rostock , † October 16, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German composer and violist .

Life

Hanning (originally Hans) Schröder was born into a music-loving family in Rostock as the son of a captain, began playing the violin at an early age and founded the "Schrödersche House Orchestra" at the age of 15. Chamber music remained the preferred style in his work as a composer.

As a young soldier he experienced the First World War, during the Weimar Republic he first studied medicine, then music. After stations in Jena and Munich he came to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he studied composition with Julius Weismann and at the university from 1920 to 1924 musicology with Wilibald Gurlitt . He also studied violin and viola (most recently with Gustav Havemann ). At the “Contemporary Music” in Donaueschingen he found like-minded people and found approval. In 1924/1925 he was principal violist in the chamber orchestra of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and later in Berlin for theater, radio and film.

In 1929 he married the musicologist Cornelia Auerbach , who was the younger sister of Johannes Ilmari Auerbach . His newly divorced ex-wife was Ingeborg Harnack (sister of Falk Harnack ), who worked for Reinhard Limbach in the Reich Association of Mixed Choirs in Germany , who met Schröder's former violin teacher Gustav Havemann and married in 1931.

Schröder wrote some pieces for children and amateurs, but remained aloof from the youth music movement. At the beginning of the 1930s Schröder, his wife and the instrument maker Peter Harlan - as the "Harlan Trio" - gave concerts throughout Germany with Renaissance and Baroque music on historical instruments. However, because Schröder composed with Paul Dessau , Hanns Eisler and others for the Great Workers Choir Berlin and his wife was of Jewish descent, he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Music in 1935. He and his wife were hit by the National Socialist professional ban. Thanks to his talent, however, he survived the Nazi era with a special permit as a violist in the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. His wife Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach lived from 1943 with their daughter Nele with the Rienau family in the Darguner pastorate in Mecklenburg, where she was organist and choir director from 1944 to 1952. From early 1944 to March 1945, Hanning Schröder and Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach hid a Jewish couple (Werner and Ilse Rewald ) in their Berlin apartment at Quermatenweg 148 in Steglitz-Zehlendorf and saved them from certain death.

After the war, Schröder headed the chamber music section of the East Berlin Composers' Association. As a result of the construction of the Wall, his activities from 1961 were almost exclusively limited to West Berlin, where he worked as a freelance composer and dealt with the stylistic devices of counterpoint and twelve-tone technique in an undogmatic manner . Here he became a mentor of the “Gruppe Neue Musik Berlin”. His music renounced more and more detail, became more and more concise and economical. Significantly, the last works are monologues: solo works for violoncello, organ, clarinet, oboe. He died on October 16, 1987 in Berlin. In 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Hanning Schröder as " Righteous Among the Nations ". Only after the fall of the iron curtain did the Hanseatic city of Rostock pay tribute to its composer. The Max-Samuel-Haus in Rostock gave an insight into the life and work of the artist couple Schröder and Auerbach in an exhibition in the winter of 2017/2018.

Works

Apart from a few orchestral works, Schröder mainly wrote compositions for small chamber music ensembles, as well as solo sonatas for various instruments, cantatas and a singspiel for children ("Hansel and Gretel"). His "Divertimento for viola and cello" was awarded in Monaco in 1964. The string quartet on the song of the Moorsoldaten from the Börgermoor concentration camp became world famous.

  • Little piano music (2 booklets, 1952)
  • Music for alto recorder solo (1954)
  • Music for Va (or Vc.) Solo (1954)
  • Music for V. solo (1957)
  • Music for Fag. Solo (1958)
  • Sonata for H. solo (1958);
  • String Quartet on the Song of the Moorsoldaten (1957);
  • Hansel and Gretel - Singspiel for Children (1956)
  • Cantatas; Choirs; Songs; House and school music.
  • 2nd sonata for solo flute (1967)
  • "Völker der Erde" for deep voice, flute and clarinet (1968)
  • "Metronom 80" for solo violin (1969)

literature

  • Hugo Riemann, Wilibald Gurlitt, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Carl Dahlhaus: Riemann Musik Lexikon: Person Teil AK , Edition 12. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959
  • Nico student: Hanning Schröder. Documents and critical catalog raisonné . Hamburg 1996. ISBN 978-3-928770-67-5
  • Albrecht Dümling: The rise and fall of the violinist Gustav Havemann - an artist between the avant-garde and Nazism . In: Dissonance No. 47 (February 1996) pp. 9-14.

Web links

Commons : Hanning Schröder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition Max-Samuel-Haus Rostock 2017, accessed October 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Hanning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1987
Place of death Berlin