Hans Pitra

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Hans Pitra, sitting at the table (2nd from left) - On October 26, 1950, a peace rally of Berlin's cultural workers took place in the Schiffbauerdamm Theater in Berlin, at which Professor Havemann spoke.

Hans Pitra (born February 7, 1915 in Dresden , † August 14, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German actor and long-time director of the Berlin Metropol Theater .

Life

Pitra was born in 1915 in a working class family in Dresden. After elementary school and advanced training, he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter from 1929 to 1933. At the age of eight, Pitra became a member of the Rote Falken , to which he belonged until 1929. He then switched to the SAJ until he became a member of the KJVD in 1932 . In 1933 Pitra successfully applied as an acting student. After a year of training, Pitra initially continued to work in Dresden. This was followed by numerous stations across Germany, which during the Second World War also served to avoid being called up for military service. His stations were the Berlin Rose Theater (1936/37), the State Theaters of Saxony (1937/38), the State Theater Schweidnitz (1938–1940), the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin (1941/42) and the City Theater Neisse (1943–1945) .

After the end of the war, Pitra joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and in 1946 the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1945 he founded the Dresden Youth Theater in his badly destroyed hometown, of which he was also the first director. In 1946 he moved to the Bautzen City Theater as artistic director, where he worked until 1948. He then headed the Volksbühne in Dresden until the end of 1949 . In January 1950, Pitra received an offer from Berlin, he initially headed the Metropol-Theater temporarily. In March 1950, Pitra's appointment was confirmed by the Berlin magistrate . 27 years followed, during which the Metropol developed into the leading entertainment arts theater in the GDR. Under his management, 25 world premieres and nine GDR premieres took place. Between 1954 and 1963 Pitra was also a Berlin representative in the People's Chamber of the GDR. Pitra has been a member of the board of directors of BFC Dynamo since it was founded . After a long illness, Pitra died on August 14, 1977.

theatre

Honors

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 457.
  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 269.

Web links

  • Grave site at www.berlin.friedparks.de (accessed on November 26, 2017).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Before founding the BFC Dynamo . In: Neues Deutschland , January 8, 1966, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 29, 1954 p. 1
  3. ^ New Germany of October 5, 1974 p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Pitra, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1977
Place of death Berlin