Heino Heiden

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Heino Heiden (born October 6, 1923 in Barmen ; † June 23, 2013 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German-Canadian ballet dancer , choreographer , ballet master and founder of the "School for Ballet Heino Heiden", the "Lübeck Children's Dance Theater Heino Heiden" (LKT) and the private theater "Theaterhaus" in Lübeck .

Life

Heiden was born in Barmen (now Wuppertal) and grew up in Hagen , where he made his stage debut as "Piccolo" in the Benatzky opera Im Weißen Rößl as early as 1932 at the age of nine . He took on similar roles in Cologne, Dortmund, Berlin and Munich, where he was on stage with Leo Slezak in Der liebe Augustin . On the way he was tutored by a private teacher. He was supposed to take on the role of Peterle in the film Peterle (directed by Joe Ralph), but the film was never realized and before continuing his career his parents insisted that Heiden graduate from school.

He received his training as a dancer from 1940 with Tatjana Gsovsky and Victor Gsovsky in Berlin, with Olga Preobajenska in Paris and Antony Tudor in New York. His first engagement was at the Berlin State Opera .

After the end of the Second World War he became a solo dancer at the Dresden State Opera , which was followed by an engagement at the Komische Oper Berlin . He danced in the controversial "Abraxas Tournee Ballet Company" and was involved in the so-called "Abraxas" scandal surrounding the work of the same name by Werner Egks , which Marcel Luipart had choreographed. From 1951 to 1952 he had an engagement at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

In 1952 he followed his girlfriend Igna, who worked for DEFA and with whom he had shared an apartment in Berlin, to Canada , where they married after his arrival in order to avoid bureaucratic obstacles. In 1953 his partner Peter Flinsch also emigrated to Canada.

In Vancouver , Heiden staged Prokofiev's Cinderella for a private theater until 1954 . This was followed by Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé , Stravinski's Apollon musagète as well as other works by Ibert , Poulenc , Liszt and Egk. These works "made him known in the international ballet scene". From 1954 to 1960 he worked mainly as a choreographer for Canadian television and also made guest appearances with various ballet companies such as the Washington Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Vancouver Ballet as well as in Munich and Amsterdam. In 1954, he designed the weekly children's dance show “In The Storybook” for the television station CBC for nine months, which showed fairy tales translated into dance.

Werner Egk recommended Heiden for the position of ballet director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . He held this position from 1960 to 1963, later at the Antwerp Opera. In 1967 Heiden came to Lübeck. At that time, the Lübeck Theater and the Kiel Theater were affected by austerity measures. The ballet troupes of both theaters were merged to form the "Ballet Community Lübeck-Kiel", of which Heiden became the leader. The concept did not work, the ballet community was dissolved after a season.

In 1968 Heiden founded his "School for Ballet Heino Heiden" in Lübeck, which later had branches in Bad Schwartau and Neumünster . Dancers like Silvia Behnke and dancers like Johannes Kritzinger and Kay Ramczyk emerged from his school .

The Lübeck Children's Dance Theater Heino Heiden (LKT) emerged from the ballet school in 1974 . Heiden performed with his students outside Lübeck and abroad, for example in 1981 at the invitation of Karl Vibach with The Nutcracker in the Theater des Westens in Berlin, in the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, in the Hamburg State Opera with Peter and the Wolf , in Copenhagen in Ny Theater also with the Nutcracker , 1982 at the Teatro Godoni in Venice and in Wales in Llangollen (1988), among others with Joplin .

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded the Lübeck Children's Dance Theater with the Hanse Culture Prize in 1985. The award was given to Heiden by Mayor Robert Knüppel “in recognition and appreciation of his achievements in promoting culture in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck”. Hans-Ulrich Hettinger, head of equipment and administration for many years, was also honored with the award.

On January 19, 1989, Heiden opened the “Theaterhaus”, a private theater with 99 seats, at 23 Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße . Michael Goden, head of equipment at the Lübeck theater, had converted a former production building into a theater. It showed, among other things, experimental drama, cabaret and chanson evenings. When the Lübeck Theater was closed in 1993 for the period of renovation, the municipal stage used Heiden's Theaterhaus for its studio program.

At the end of 1994 Johannes Kritzinger took over Heiden's ballet school and the children's dance theater. Together with his wife Caroline Maylin-Kritzinger, he continues it as the “Lübeck Children's Dance Theater” and as the “School for Ballet Johannes Kritzinger” with locations in St.-Annen-Straße and in Pansdorf .

Heiden died in June 2013 at the age of 89 in Bad Schwartau.

literature

  • Horst Koegler : Heiden, Heino . In: Friedrich's Ballet Lexicon . Friedrich, Velber 1972, p. 255.
  • Horst Koegler, Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 200.
  • Günter Zschacke (co-author): Lübeck children's dance theater Heino Heiden . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten, Lübeck 1988 ISBN 3-925402-23-3
  • Wolfgang Czechne : Heino Heiden . In: Ders .: Lübeck and his theater. The story of a long love . Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1996 ISBN 3-923707-29-0 pp. 138-144
  • Bernd Plagemann: Hanseatic Culture Prize for the Lübeck Children's Dance Theater Heino Heiden . In: Lübeckische Blätter , 15/1985 of September 21, 1985, pp. 253-254

References and comments

  1. ↑ Bernd Plagemann: Hanseatic Culture Prize for the Lübeck Children's Dance Theater Heino Heiden . In: Lübeckische Blätter , 15/1985 of September 21, 1985, p. 253
  2. ↑ Seven times in spite of this . In: Der Spiegel 16/1951 of April 18, 1951, pp. 30–31 ( online )
  3. ↑ An Abraxas episode In: Die Zeit of March 22, 1951, p. 3 ( online )
  4. ↑ Book: Peter Flinsch: The Body in Question ( Memento from May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In Xtra! West , September 11, 2008.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Chechne: Heino Heiden . In: Lübeck and its theater. The story of a long love . Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1996, p. 141
  6. ↑ 100 Years of the City Theater (PDF; 183 kB) on the Lübeck Theater website
  7. ^ Günter Zschacke: Lübeck Children's Dance Theater Heino Heiden . Lübeck 1988, p. 105
  8. ^ "School for Ballet Johannes Kritzinger"
  9. ^ Wolfgang Chechne : A life's work out of luck and dance , ln-online.de of June 24, 2013; Lübecker Nachrichten of June 25, 2013, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Heiden, Heino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2013
Place of death Bad Schwartau