Hartmut Hartung from Hartungen

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Hartmut Coloman Hartung von Hartungen (born May 27, 1899 in Riva on Lake Garda ; † January 12, 1980 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) was an Austrian actor , director and German philologist .

Life

Hartmut Hartung von Hartungen was born on May 27, 1899 in Riva on Lake Garda as the youngest son of Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (IV.) And Vittoria born. de Baroni-Berghof born; his brothers were Erhard (III.), Christoph (V.) and Heinrich .

After moving from Riva to Merano in 1907, Hartung von Hartungen first attended a private school, then the Benedictine high school in Merano , where he graduated on October 13, 1917. He then volunteered with the 1st Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment , studied German at Innsbruck University from 1918–1920 after the end of the war and devoted himself to a career in theater. After eight years as an actor and director in Munich , Meiningen and Berlin , he continued his German studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1928 to 1931 under Professors Walter Brecht and Carl von Kraus . On July 19, 1932, Hartung received his doctorate from Hartungen with his dissertation The Poet Siegfried Lipiner , which is probably the most detailed work on the writer to date. Then there was another turn to the theater, namely to the Deutsches Theater under Heinz Hilpert in Berlin. There he played alongside Ewald Balser , Paul Dahlke , Ursula Herking , Heinz Hilpert, Paul Hubschmid , Theodor Loos , Erich Ponto , Hans Thimig , Axel von Ambesser and Gisela von Collande in productions such as Pension Schöller , Richard II. , Schluck and Jau , In Heaven and on Earth , Das Käthchen von Heilbronn or Der Verschwender .

In 1938 Hartung von Hartungen married the actress Anne Sophie Marshall , great-granddaughter of the painter Bonaventura Genelli and the Scottish poet Robert Burns . In February 1945 he was obliged to serve in the war and was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he did not return to Vienna until 1948 . He then moved to South Africa, where he worked as an art restorer in Johannesburg until his death.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol AZ. Volume II, Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-87803-006-X , p. 178.
  2. ^ Albino Tonelli: Ai confini della Central Europe. The sanatorium of Hartungen di Riva del Garda - Dai fratelli Mann a Kafka gli ospiti della cultura europea . Comune di Riva del Garda - Museo Civico - Biblioteca Civica, Trient 1995, p. 130 .
  3. ↑ Burning home . In: Reutlinger Tageblatt . June 21, 1935.
  4. ^ Richard Frank Krummel : Nietzsche and the German spirit . tape I . de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-016074-9 , pp. 43 .
  5. ^ Printed cast lists for the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  6. ↑ Dr. Hartmut von Hartungen in Johannesburg . In: The weekly mirror for southern Africa . 20th January 1980.
personal data
SURNAME Hartung von Hartungen, Hartmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES von Hartungen, Hartmut; Hartung von Hartungen, Hartmut Coloman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Riva del Garda
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1980
Place of death Johannesburg , South Africa