Harro Dicks
Harro Dicks (born October 3, 1911 in Cologne ; † January 24, 2013 in Darmstadt ) was a German opera director.
Life
Harro Dicks comes from a banking family, completed an apprenticeship in banking and began studying economics . In addition, he was studying theater studies in Cologne.
He initially became an assistant director in Essen. After the Second World War, Dicks began in Hanover (then: Städtische Bühnen Hanover , opera division in the opera house), where he advanced from director to head of the opera. In 1948 he came to Frankfurt am Main as chief director and deputy director . ( Frankfurt Opera of the Municipal Theaters). In 1951 Dicks began his work at the Landestheater Darmstadt , where he was first director and then opera director until 1976. During this time numerous productions also took place at other theaters in Germany and Western Europe. He then remained active as an opera director in Darmstadt until 1991 and was then made an honorary member of the Darmstadt State Theater. At the Landestheater Darmstadt, Dicks practiced his own "Darmstadt style" in the provisional venue of the Darmstadt Orangery under the direction of Gustav Rudolf Sellner (1951 to 1961) . This style of performance, born out of the distress of the post-war period, with economical stage resources and the highest artistic efficiency became known and exemplary beyond Darmstadt. In addition to his work at the theater, Dicks headed the opera school at the Academy for Music in Darmstadt from 1952 to 1992 . Dicks was also a professor at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover.
For the 100th birthday of Harro Dicks in 2011, there was a ceremony in the large house of the State Theater in Darmstadt with the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier as a congratulator.
Productions
Harro Dicks staged around 700 performances, many of them premieres and premieres, including:
- 1958 for the world exhibition in Brussels Carmina Burana von Orff
- 1960 in Darmstadt rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht
- 1965/1966 in Darmstadt Salome by Richard Strauss and Neues vom Tage by Paul Hindemith / Marcellus Schiffer
- 1966/1967 in Darmstadt Lulu by Alban Berg / Frank Wedekind
- 1982/1983 in Darmstadt Troilus and Cressida based on Shakespeare by Winfried Zillig
- 1991 in Darmstadt Massenet Don Quixote
Awards
- 1971: Johann Heinrich Merck award from the city of Darmstadt
- 1976: Silver plaque of merit from the city of Darmstadt
- 1976: Goethe badge from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
- 1981: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1992: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 2002: Hessian Order of Merit
Fonts
- Opera on television; Experience from practice, theses for practice ; in: The three big F: film - radio - television. Boosey & Hawkes, Bonn 1958, pp. 46-48.
- in: Of power and love. Shakespeare “What you want”, Verdi “Othello”, Zillig “Troilus and Cressida”, Shakespeare “King Lear” at the Staatstheater Darmstadt 1982/83. Interviews with Eike Gramss and Gustav Rudolf Sellner as well as a contribution by Harro Dicks: On the futility of hero worship. Edited by Susanne Berger, Ansgar Haag. Roether, Darmstadt 1983, pp. 46-55.
Web links
- Literature by and about Harro Dicks in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Symbols of Life , obituary by Johannes Breckner in Darmstädter Echo January 26, 2013
- ↑ Harro Dicks and his Darmstadt style (music theater in Darmstadt 1951–1991). Liebig, Darmstadt 2001.
- ↑ A lion for life's work. Darmstädter Echo, October 10, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Press Release No. 100/2002 , Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, July 16, 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dicks, Harro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2013 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |