Hans-Jürgen Thiers

Hans-Jürgen Thiers (* 1929 in Wittenberg ) is a German composer , conductor , music critic and university professor .

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Hans-Jürgen Thiers attended the Melanchthon High School in Wittenberg and received private instrumental lessons from local musicians after the end of the war, so that he was able to take part in cultural life at an early age, as a musician and as a contributor to his own compositions. He later worked as a conductor in various cities in the GDR , for example in the mid-1950s at the Stadttheater Zwickau , in the late 1950s at the Landestheater Altenburg and in the early 1960s at the Borna District Theater . From around 1971 he was chief conductor of the Prenzlau Estradenorchester in what was then the Neubrandenburg district .

In the last years of his career up to his retirement he taught at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar . Composition - from the song cycle to chamber music to symphonies and drama music - runs through his entire life. In 1970 he received the Max Reger Art Prize of the Suhl district for the oratorio Der Mensch, composed with Siegfried Geißler on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the GDR, based on the poetry book of the same name by the Lithuanian Eduardas Mieželaitis .

Thiers belonged to the Association of Composers and Musicologists and was a member of the CDU , for whose renewal he advocated during the fall of the Berlin Wall. In reunified Germany , Thiers, who has lived in Weimar since 1979, is active in the field of music criticism, with a particular focus on the Thuringian music landscape and primarily writing for the Thuringian regional newspaper .

Book contributions

Conference contribution for a socialist entertainment art . In: Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society. Consultation of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen . Edited by the secretariat of the main board of the CDU, Berlin 1974, pp. 99-101.
Excerpt from a concert for orchestra . In: 30 years of the GDR. Festschrift of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR , Berlin 1979, loosely inserted.
Festschrift contribution 40 years Thuringian Chamber Orchestra Weimar. An inventory by Hans-Jürgen Thiers . In: Thuringian Chamber Orchestra Weimar. 1962-2002 . Förderverein Thüringisches Kammerorchester Weimar eV (Ed.), Weimar, 2002, pp. 6-8.

Individual evidence

^ Rolf Udo Kober: Music and musical education in Wittenberg after 1945. Attempt to take stock . In: Jens Hüttmann, Peer Pasternack (Ed.): Traces of knowledge. Education and science in Wittenberg after 1945 . Drei-Kastanien-Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2004, ISBN 3-933028-85-X , 2. The new beginning 1945, p. 286–293 , here p. 288 f ( peer-pasternack.de [PDF; 9.3 MB ; accessed on March 16, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b Hans-Jürgen Thiers: For a socialist entertainment art . In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society. Consultation of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen . Berlin 1974, p. 99-101 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Mozart, Haydn and Thiers. Musical Vespers of the "Quartetto Appassionato" on August 31st on the Kirchberg. The series of musical Vespers in the Johanniskirche in Kirchberg Monastery will continue in August. The Constance “Quartetto Appassionato” will perform on August 31st. In: neckar-chronik-de. August 15, 2014, accessed March 16, 2019 .
↑ Siegfried Rudolf Geißler: The party, the party ... .. and I! Symphonic oratorio “Man”. In: siegfried-rudolf-geissler.de. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
^ Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Archive for Christian Democratic Politics (Ed.): Findbuch 07-011. CDU in the Soviet Zone / GDR . tape I . Sankt Augustin 2018, 5.4.2.2 Requests - proposals, submissions, comments 09.1989–12.1989, p. 355 ( kas.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on March 16, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Thiers, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer, conductor, music critic and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wittenberg

[1] Rolf Udo Kober: Music and musical education in Wittenberg after 1945. Attempt to take stock . In: Jens Hüttmann, Peer Pasternack (Ed.): Traces of knowledge. Education and science in Wittenberg after 1945 . Drei-Kastanien-Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2004, ISBN 3-933028-85-X , 2. The new beginning 1945, p. 286–293 , here p. 288 f ( peer-pasternack.de [PDF; 9.3 MB ; accessed on March 16, 2019]).

[CDU-2] A ^b Hans-Jürgen Thiers: For a socialist entertainment art . In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society. Consultation of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen . Berlin 1974, p. 99-101 .

[neckar-3] Mozart, Haydn and Thiers. Musical Vespers of the "Quartetto Appassionato" on August 31st on the Kirchberg. The series of musical Vespers in the Johanniskirche in Kirchberg Monastery will continue in August. The Constance “Quartetto Appassionato” will perform on August 31st. In: neckar-chronik-de. August 15, 2014, accessed March 16, 2019 .

[4] Siegfried Rudolf Geißler: The party, the party ... .. and I! Symphonic oratorio “Man”. In: siegfried-rudolf-geissler.de. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .

[5] Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Archive for Christian Democratic Politics (Ed.): Findbuch 07-011. CDU in the Soviet Zone / GDR . tape I . Sankt Augustin 2018, 5.4.2.2 Requests - proposals, submissions, comments 09.1989–12.1989, p. 355 ( kas.de [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on March 16, 2019]).