Hans-Ulrich Schmückle

Hans-Ulrich Schmückle (born August 15, 1916 in Ulm ; † June 2, 1993 in Augsburg ) was a German set designer .

The son of the public prosecutor and writer Georg Schmückle was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Caspar , and a student of the painter Adolf Hölzel and the art historian Hans Hildebrandt in Stuttgart. From 1938 to 1945 he did military service.

From 1946 he was a set designer for the Kammerspiele and the Alte Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, and from 1954 to the mid-1980s he was head of equipment at the Augsburg Municipal Theater . In 1957 he married the costume designer Sylta Busse . From the 1960s onwards, Schmückle made a name for himself with its sparse, sophisticated, and in a certain way monumental stage spaces. Numerous national and international commitments followed, including in Vienna , Salzburg , Zurich , Brussels , Naples , Edinburgh , Glasgow and a lively collaboration with many important directors such as Erwin Piscator , Walter Felsenstein , Fritz Kortner , Harry Buckwitz , Manfred Wekwerth , composers such as Luigi Nono , Werner Egk and the conductor Hermann Scherchen .

The artistic legacy of Hans-Ulrich Schmückle is archived in the Deutsches Theatermuseum .

Hans-Ulrich Schmückle was the brother of the German general Gerd Schmückle .

literature

• Susanne de Ponte:  Schmückle, Hans-Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 265-267 ( digitized version ).
• Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 378 f .
• Hans-Ulrich Schmückle, Sylta Busse: Theater work. A documentation. Edited by Eckehart Nölle. Theater Museum Munich. Augsburg: Schroff-Druck, undated (1975), ISBN 3-446-12017-3 .