Hans Kaufmann (director)
Hans Kaufmann (born November 26, 1876 in Berlin ; † July 17, 1957 in Detmold ) was a German theater director , dramaturge and artistic director .
Life
Hans Kaufmann was born in 1876 to Jewish parents. He attended the French grammar school in Berlin until 1896 , then completed a law degree, learned stage practice with Otto Brahm and did an internship with André Antoine in Paris . From 1904 to 1911 he worked as an actor on medium-sized German theaters and as a dramaturge and director at the Berlin Schillertheater and worked at the German Opera House in Charlottenburg until 1920 before he became director. He carried out this activity from 1920 to 1925 at the State Theater and at the Kammerspiele in the castle in Braunschweig and until 1931 at the city theater in Bern .
In 1932 he returned to Germany, was after the seizure of power by the National Socialists and the increasing threat to Jewish citizens of 1941-42 at the home of Manfred Fuhrmann in mother Hiddesen added. After being denounced , he was deported to Theresienstadt for three years and then returned there to work in Detmold as director of the state theater from 1945 to 1946 . He lived there until his death in 1957.
Hans Kaufmann married Gertrud Seligmann in 1914. The marriage ended in divorce in 1927. In his second marriage, he married the actress Theamaria Lenz (actually Theresa LE Staadt) in 1927, from whom he divorced in 1936/37 so that she could continue her career and support the family.
literature
- Manfred Fuhrmann: Thrown off track. The stations of the Jewish theater man Hans Kaufmann. With a foreword by Martin Walser . Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89528-407-6 .
- Manfred Fuhrmann: Hans Kaufmann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 969-670.
Web links
- Literature about Hans Kaufmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Kaufmann: You don't want to suffer me here anymore. at berliner-schauspielschule.de
- Review in a nutshell - biography of Hans Kaufmann on zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Kaufmann as director in the Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. ( Memento of April 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.6 MB) Volume 43. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei, Braunschweig 1962, p. 204. on digisrv-1.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de, accessed on January 15, 2013.
- ^ Manfred Fuhrmann: Hans Kaufmann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 969-670.
- ^ Obituary for Manfred Fuhrmann on kirke.hu-berlin.de, accessed on January 15, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Dahl: Always a feast for mind and senses! 100 years of the Detmold State Theater . Ed .: Landestheater Detmold and Theater der Zeit. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95749-237-1 , chronicle, p. 139 .
- ↑ Manfred Fuhrmann: Thrown off track. The stations of the Jewish theater man Hans Kaufmann. at aisthesis.de, accessed on January 15, 2013.
- ^ Information in the magazine for Lippische Geschichte. P. 40. ( Memento of November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB) on rosenland-lippe.de, accessed on January 15, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1957 |
| Place of death | Detmold |