Hans-Jörg from Jena

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans-Jörg Helmuth von Jena (born January 12, 1931 in Berlin ; † December 25, 2001 there ) was a German theater and music critic , television presenter and chairman of the Association of German Critics eV His main occupation was a teacher . He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Hans-Jörg von Jena came from an old Anhalt noble family in Halle (Saale) and was the son of the merchant and reserve sergeant Helmuth von Jena (1901–1945, missing, declared dead in 1950) and Anny Eichinger .

He married on December 28, 1967 in Novi Sad ( Serbia ) Helene Vojtehovski (born September 4, 1934 in Novi Sad, Serbia), the daughter of the conductor Jaroslav Vojtehovski and Sophie Lerch .

Act

Von Jena began his journalistic career with the column Kulturkalender in the Spandauer Volksblatt (later Volksblatt Berlin ), which he founded in the early 1970s and maintained until the late 1980s. Through this column, whose professional quality and metropolitan perspective have always been striking for the local newspaper of a West Berlin workers' district, Jena gained a great reputation in large parts of Berlin's cultural life . This was followed by theater and music reviews in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the world , the world on Sunday and, since the early 1990s, initially under the pseudonym Harald Rauch , the smoke signals column in the right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .

In the Open Channel Berlin the show hosted by Jena regularly the top circle , in the critic in Berlin-based newspaper the current performances in the capital discussed.

From 1988 to 1991 and from 1992 to 1993 von Jena was chairman of the Association of German Critics eV , which annually awards the Critics' Prize in the fields of architecture , fine arts , television , film , literature , music , dance and theater . On the controversial decision of the theater jury from 1993, due to the closure of the Schiller Theater by the Berlin Senate do not assign a critics prize in the theater, was instrumental in Jena.

In 1994 he was one of the few Berlin critics to accompany the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado on its multi-week tour of Japan.

Von Jena always worked as a theater critic and journalist on a part-time basis. In his main job he taught the subjects German , history and political world studies - most recently as director of studies - at the Kant-Gymnasium .

bibliography

  • Hans-Jörg von Jena, Berlin , City of Music , Cologne 1995.
  • Cordula Groth, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Claudio Abbado . With contributions by Hans-Jörg von Jena et al., 2., revised. Ed., Berlin 1994, ISBN 3875844815 .

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Jena, Hans-Jörg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jena, Hans-Jörg Helmuth von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2001
Place of death Berlin