Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard

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Hanns Ludwig Niedecken-Gebhard (also: Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard and Hans Niedecken-Gebhard and Hanns Ludwig Niedecken-Gebhardt ; born September 4, 1889 in Ober-Ingelheim am Rhein, † March 7, 1954 in Michelstadt in the Odenwald) was a German musicologist , Director and artistic director .

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Niedecken-Gebhard was born the son of a businessman. He first studied German , art history , philosophy , law in Lausanne , as well as musicology with Karl Straube and Max Reger at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig and, together with Oskar Hagen , with Hermann Abert at the University of Halle . He completed his studies in 1914 with a musicological doctorate on Jean Georges Noverre .

During the First World War he worked in Upper East in Wilna and became friends with Hildebrand Gurlitt .

Zapfenstreich and prayer , "played by the Fusilier Regiment 'General-Feldmarschall Prinz Albrecht Von Preussen' No. 73 / Kapellmeister H. Gebhardt / Hanover";
Shellac record I-11169, Favorite Record , circa 1922

From 1920 to 1921, Niedecken-Gebhard worked as assistant director to Ernst Lert at the Frankfurt Opera , then from 1922 to 1924 as senior director at the Hanover Municipal Theaters and from 1922 to 1928 and from 1935 to 1938 as senior director of the Handel Festival in Göttingen . From 1924 to 1927 he was director of the Münster City Theater . He then made guest appearances as a director in Berlin and Geneva from 1927 to 1931 and worked as stage director at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1931 to 1933 .

In the 1930s, Niedecken-Gebhard was also significantly involved in the development of the Thingspiel , the main features of which he developed from his involvement with the operas of Georg Friedrich Handel in the course of the "Handel Renaissance" in the 1920s. He was one of the few homosexual artists who were not only able to maintain their position during the Nazi era, but also to expand it. In 1934, Niedecken-Gebhard directed the Heidelberg Reich Festival .

Due to denunciations in early 1936 because of his homosexuality and extensive investigations by the Berlin Gestapo , Niedecken-Gebhard entered into a marriage of convenience with the set designer Lotte Brill on March 20, 1936 and moved with her into a house in Grunewald . The Völkischer Beobachter reported about this so-called “Olympic wedding” . especially since Niedecken-Gebhard had staged the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics . In the following years he directed monumental festivals in Wroclaw and Munich . From 1941 to 1945 he worked at the municipal theaters of Leipzig .

His opera work was very closely linked to dance. Already in Hanover he developed a new understanding of opera together with the dancer Harald Kreutzberg and the conductor Richard Lert . He later worked with other important representatives of German dance such as Kurt Jooss and Mary Wigman .

Teaching activities and professorships

From 1936, Niedecken-Gebhard received a teaching position for opera directing at the State University of Music in Berlin and also taught from 1938 at what was then Friedrich Wilhelm University . In 1939 he was awarded the title of professor by the Reich Minister of Education. From 1941 to 1945 he was appointed professor at the State University of Music in Leipzig.

In 1945 he was removed from all his offices. From 1947 he finally taught theater studies in Göttingen.

Works (selection)

Fonts:

• J.-G. Noverre, and his influence on dramatic ballet composition , dissertation Halle 1914
  • also: J.-G. Noverre, 1727-1810. His life and his relationship to music , Halle 1919
• Shawn the dancer , with a foreword by H. Niedecken-Gebhard and an introduction about Katherine S. Dreier by Hans Hildebrandt. With photographs by Ralph Hawkins [among others], Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1933
• Herakles , text volume for the performance on the Dietrich-Eckart-Freilichtbühne, Reichssportfeld, for the oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, based on the version by Friedrich Chrysander, newly arranged for the staged performance by Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard. Organized by the Reichsmusikkammer and the organizing committee for the 11th Berlin Olympics in 1936 ... on the 7th and 7th. 16 Aug 1936 ..., Berlin: Limpert, 1936
• Orpheus and Eurydice. Musical drama , program and text volume of the work of Christof Willibald Gluck for the Berlin Summer Festival. Based on the original score of the Viennese version of 1762, edited. u. newly translated by Hermann Abert, dramaturgically set up by Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard for the performance on the Dietrich-Eckart open-air stage. Berlin: [The Lord Mayor], 1938
• Happy, free, happy people. Festival in the Olympic Stadium. August 18 to 28, 1938. Overall artistic direction: Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard , Munich: [The Lord Mayor], 1938
• A review. Thirty years of Handel renaissance , in: The Göttingen Handel Festival , Festschrift, Göttingen 1953

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 7, p. 404
• Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Vol. 2, pp. 1646f.
• Niedecken-Gebhard, Hanns Ludwig , in: Riemann Musiklexikon , supplementary volume, personal section L – Z , p. 272
• Bernhard Helmich: Handel Festival and “Game of 10,000”. The director Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard (= European university publications , series 30: theater, film and television studies , vol. 32), dissertation, Frankfurt am Main [u. a.]: Lang, 1989, ISBN 3631419244
• Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 71 and others.
• Dörte Schmidt, Brigitta Weber (ed.): No experimental art. Musical life at municipal theaters in the Weimar Republic. Stuttgart / Weimar 1995. ISBN 3476012654 , p. 344 and others .
• Michael Werner: “Longing and Fulfillment of our Time.” Aspects of German Handel Reception in the First Half of the 20th Century . In: Handel Yearbook , ed. from the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Society e. V. International Association, seat in Halle (Saale). - Cologne: Studio, 1997, ISSN 0440-0615.
• Hugo Thielen : Niedecken-Gebhard (t), Hanns Ludwig , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 269f.
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 and ISBN 3-10-039326-0 , p. 433

Web links

Commons : Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hannover: Small city history ; Preview over google books
3. ^ ^{A b} Hugo Thielen: Niedecken-Gebhard (t), Hanns Ludwig , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 269f.
4. ↑ George E. Haggerty (ed.): Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures , Vol. 2, New York a. a. 2000, p. 179.
5. ^ Tanz-Journal , issues 4–6, Kieser Verlag, 2006, p. 22; limited preview in Google Book search
6. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Koch-Hillebrecht : Homo Hitler: Psychogram of the German dictator , Munich: Siedler, 1999, ISBN 3-442-75603-0 , p. 352; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ↑ Bernd Dürr: [www.galerie-bernd-duerr.de/kuenstler/popup.php?id=481 Lotte Brill ] on the page galerie-bernd-duerr.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 22, 2020
8. ^ Bernhard Helmich: Handel Festival and "Game of 10,000". the director Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard. Diss. European university publications. Vol. 30. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989, v. a. P. 90ff. and 201ff.