Hans Gregor
Hans Gregor (born April 14, 1866 in Dresden ; † August 13, 1945 Wernigerode ) was a German actor , director and theater manager .
Life
Gregor was director of various German-speaking theaters, including 1898 to 1905 in Barmen and Elberfeld , 1905 to 1911 in Berlin and 1911 to 1918 in Vienna . He was a member of the Breslau United St. John's Lodge on the three dead skeletons, on the column and on the bell .
In 1905 he founded the privately run, first Komische Oper in Berlin on Friedrichstrasse on the Weidendammer Bridge . There he set new standards in the management of a private theater. He brought out 19 world premieres as well as spectacular performances of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann , Hugo Wolf's Der Corregidor , Frederick Delius ' Romeo and Juliet in the village and Claude Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande on this stage. However, his concept of an art without conventions, prejudices and artistic vanity did not work.
In 1911 he was appointed director of the KK Hofoper in Vienna and closed his loss-making company in Berlin.
A complete novelty for the KK Hofoper was that Hans Gregor had been placed through an agency. Despite his economic failure in Berlin, the reputation of a “successful art manager” preceded him in Vienna. Despite the war years from 1914 to 1918, he actually achieved great success during his time as director. The highlights were the premiere of Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier and the first performances of Richard Wagner's Parsifal and Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame . He expanded the ensemble with new engagements from Maria Jeritza , Lotte Lehmann and Alfred Piccaver .
One of the last performances under the direction of Gregor was Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček in February 1918. This performance was seen as a concession to the Czechs in the already disintegrating multi-ethnic state of the Habsburg monarchy and was not particularly well received by the German national press. With the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , Gregor's term of office in Vienna also ended.
He was married to the singer Della Rogers for a second marriage and apparently had several sons.
literature
- Günter Ristow: Gregor, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 22 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gregor Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 53.
- From Castle and opera: The houses on the ring from its opening until 1955 . ISBN 3-85498-394-8
- Fritz Jacobsohn: Hans Gregors Komische Oper 1905–1911, Oesterheld Berlin undated
- Carmen Ottner : Hans Gregor: Director of the Vienna Court Opera in difficult times (1911–1918) . In this. (Ed.): Opera in Vienna 1900–1925 , Vienna 1991.
- Liselotte regulator: Hans Gregor. The era of the last court opera director in Vienna . Diss. Vienna 2010.
Web links
- Opera and dance Susanne Geissler: The first comic opera
Individual evidence
- ^ Liselotte Regulator: Hans Gregor , p. 21 (pdf)
Franz von Dingelstedt | Johann von Herbeck | Franz von Jauner | Wilhelm Jahn | Gustav Mahler | Felix von Weingartner | Hans Gregor | Richard Strauss and Franz Schalk | Clemens Krauss | Erwin Kerber | Heinrich Karl Strohm | Walter Thomas | Ernst August Schneider | Lothar Müthel | Karl Bohm | Franz Salmhofer | Herbert von Karajan | Egon Hilbert | Heinrich Reif-Gintl | Rudolf Gamsjäger | Egon Seefehlner | Lorin Maazel | Claus Helmut Drese and Claudio Abbado | Eberhard Waechter | Ioan Holender and Seiji Ozawa | Dominique Meyer and Franz Welser-Möst | Bogdan Roščić and Philippe Jordan
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gregor, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and theater manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Wernigerode |