Hans Fiala (singer)

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Hans Fiala , actually Johann Krempel (born December 30, 1883 in Vienna , † January 4, 1945 in Plauen ) was an Austrian actor, opera singer (baritone) and director.

Life

Hans Fiala was born in the Viennese Weißgerbervorstadt as the son of the butcher Johann Krempel and his wife Wilhelmine, née Fiala. His stage career began in 1903 at the Hechingen Theater and from 1905 in Znaim (Moravia). He then switched to operetta and later also to opera. This was followed by engagements in Linz / Danube, Landshut , Kattowitz and Zurich . From 1919 to 1921 he worked as a director at the Nuremberg City Theater . During his time in Nuremberg, Fiala made a film for the Humbser brewery in Fürth . The silent film When the beers learned to run ... shows the cities of Nuremberg and Fürth around 1920 and was obviously intended as an educational film for the brewing industry . After working in Nuremberg, the stages in Frankfurt am Main and Bamberg followed before he moved to Plauen, where he was employed as a theater director from 1932 to 1934. Already at the beginning of the 1932/33 schedule, Fiala worked to ensure that the pieces listed followed a “folk line” and that the staged pieces awakened and deepened the “sensitivity to heroism and the spirit of sacrifice of the German soldier”. On his departure in Plauen in 1934 Fiala was certified: "He was anxious to underline the national character of the program and to let poets speak who tried to serve the patriotic high thought." On January 4th, 1945 Fiala died at the age of 61 years of complications from pneumonia .

Work during National Socialism

In 1934 he took over the management of the Guben City Theater. About his time in Guben it is reported: “The theater law passed in May 1933 led to the synchronization of the German theaters. These then also served to spread the fascist ideology . Fritz Ebers and Hans Fiala were primarily responsible for this in Guben. Fiala proved to be a particularly willing vicarious agent. For allegedly racial reasons, even such successful operetta creators as Emmerich Kálmán , Paul Abraham , Oskar Straus , Robert Stolz , Leo Fall , Leon Jessel ("Black Forest Girl"; mistreated as a Jew, died in 1942) or Oskar Nedbal (from "Poland Blood" 1913 became 1942 ) disappeared "The Harvest Bride"). "

After seven years of activity, Fiala moved to Thorn in occupied Poland in 1941 . Fiala was commissioned by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to rebuild the city theater in Thorn. The theater was converted by the house architect of the Propaganda Ministry especially for this purpose. In the depiction of the head of the Reich Propaganda Department in Danzig, the theater in Thorn was tendentiously described as "completely neglected during the interim Polish rule and [...] now renewed and rebuilt with the personal sympathy of the Führer". The first production of Fiala after the reopening on March 28, 1942 was propagated as "important evidence of the cultural will of the regained German East" - the first play was the historical drama Anke von Skoepen by Friedrich Bethge . A ballet school was founded under Fiala's directorship , but Richard Strauss also staged plays. Because of his services to the theater, Fiala was appointed to the Presidential Council "German Ordensland". Shortly after starting his activity as artistic director at the theater, he came into conflict with the mayor Franz Jakob about the artistic direction of the theater. Jakob, who saw himself as a proven theater expert, constantly interfered in the day-to-day business of the artistic director, so that Fiala soon left the theater in Thorn. His two successors, Walter Sofka and Theo Moder, also left the theater in Thorn after a short time because they “did not recognize the authority of the mayor”.

From 1942 to 1944 Fiala worked again at the theater in Plauen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming - When beers learned to run. In: FürthWiki , accessed on May 1, 2017, 7:57 p.m.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Schatte: A Guben intendant in the "regained East". In: Lausitzer Rundschau . October 4, 2016 ( lr-online.de ).
  3. ↑ J. Bernhard, L. Reinhardt (ed.): Guben in the time of National Socialism 1936–1940. A documentation. Self-published, p. 68 ff.
  4. ^ Gerhard Gunia: Gubener home calendar. Self-published, 1979, pp. 61, 64.
  5. ↑ Toruń State Archives (Poland): Akta miasta Torunia 1939–1945. E 825.
personal data
SURNAME Fiala, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krempel, Johann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, opera singer (baritone) and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1945
Place of death Plauen