Heinrich Goertz

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Heinrich Goertz (born May 15, 1911 in Duisburg , † September 21, 2006 in Bückeburg ) was a German set designer, dramaturge, painter, journalist and writer.

Life

Studies and the years up to 1945

Goertz came from a German-Dutch family from the Lower Rhine . His maternal grandfather was the local church painter Viktor Heinrich Moldrickx . Goertz's own career aspiration was initially an advertising painter. From 1930 he studied painting with Max Peiffer Watenphul at the Folkwang School in Essen . As a second subject, Goertz took stage design with Hein Heckroth , whom he later brought to Erwin Piscator . After completing his studies, the first exhibitions followed, including in the Rhenish Secession in Düsseldorf and twice with the Berlin Secessionists . Around 1932 he ran a studio in Duisburg, Lessingstraße 2 , under the name Hinz Goertz-Moldrickx together with five other artists, among them the two painters Heinrich Seepolt and Volkram Anton Scharf. The city of Duisburg then acquired one of the first pictures. A close friendship with the expressionist wood cutter and Nazi opponent Heinz Kiwitz developed in the Duisburg studio . A postcard written by Goertz to Kiwitz and found in his Berlin apartment brought the police on to Goertz 'tracks and he was briefly detained.

His watercolor on the time of National Socialism , entitled Dumb and Satisfied , was shown in the 1933 exhibition “ Degenerate Art ”. In addition to painting, Goertz also wrote and published short stories and short stories in various features since 1932 - including the poem “Der Mensch” in the November 1932 issue of the journal Der Cross .

In 1942 Goertz published his first novel under the title Johannes Geisterseher at Karl Heinz Henssel Verlag , which also contained 70 of his own drawings. It borders on a miracle that this work was not banned by the National Socialists, because contrary to the National Socialist image of man, it depicts an education sentimentale in gloomy times.

Heinrich Goertz had to experience how his early pictures burned in a bomb attack in a friend's studio in Berlin on Passauer Straße next to the Kaufhaus des Westens - only two works from that time could be saved.

Work at the theater 1943–1979

Practical theater work began in 1943. Herbert Ihering introduced Goertz to Paul Verhoeven , who had just become director of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. He immediately engaged Goertz as a dramaturge. In 1944 the theaters were closed. Goertz was drafted into service; At the same time, he opposed the incipient conscription of stateless persons of German origin to the Waffen SS through fictitious illnesses, frequent changes of residence and, until the end of the war, by hiding in the country.

With the end of the Nazi era, a new artistic beginning began for Goertz too. He wanted to go to the theater. He came to Berlin in the 1930s because of Brecht - now the time had come: theater with the greats from the very beginning on the East Berlin stages: now as a playwright, set designer and director.

The first stop was the Deutsches Theater, where his then hotly controversial stage work Peter Kiewe was premiered on September 22, 1946 . With this drama, Heinrich Goertz marked the new beginning of young German-language stage literature after the war. This fact is documented in the theater literature and was also the subject of a seminar in 1990 at the Berlin Humboldt University.

Based on the fate of a deserter who can save his life if he hangs his comrades himself, the play "Peter Kiewe" raises the question of whether one can ever regain human dignity after such a monstrous act. What Goertz showed in his play about individual fate was, of course, directed as a question to the German state of mind, which after the era of National Socialism wanted to forget rather than deal with it. The piece was ahead of its time. Goertz in his statement at the time: ".. The performers are peeled off one skin after the other ... and they themselves are dominated by the shameless desire to reveal their character." The concern of the angry young playwright, the unmasking and clarification of facts and figures hidden connections in the action, has always remained his theme over the years, to which he has dedicated himself in the various artistic disciplines.

Further stations of his theater work were the Deutsches Theater, where he designed the stage sets for Ernst Toller's play "Pastor Hall" in 1947 under the direction of Wolfgang Langhoff , the East Berlin Volksbühne and the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, where his play "Life is not a dream" in the Directed by Fritz Wisten and premiered with music by Paul Dessau and removed by the SED after only five performances, as well as the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Goertz 'goal was always gripping, powerful theater with the intention of encouraging social criticism.

After the Wall was built in 1961, Goertz initially continued to work at the East Berlin Volksbühne and lived in the western section until 1963 when he was given the alternative of either living in the eastern section or canceling the contract. Goertz decided in favor of the West and with it a new challenge. Erwin Piscator brought him to the Freie Volksbühne Berlin in 1965 as chief dramaturge. For Piscator, the theater was a parliament, the audience a legislative body. This was followed by intensive work together until Piscator's death on March 30, 1966. Goertz has written a monograph on people and the artistic work of Piscator. In 1967 Goertz followed the call of the Hanoverian director Franz Reichert as chief dramaturge at the state theater there.

Work as a freelance writer, journalist and painter 1970–2006

In 1970 he made the decision not to drag himself out of the theater bureaucracy any longer. After 50 productions at theaters and another 20 for the entertainment department of the East German television station Berlin-Adlershof, he made a fresh start as a freelance writer, painter and journalist.

Goertz had started painting again in 1963 and in 1969 exhibited 22 works in the house on Lützowplatz in Berlin at the invitation of gallery owner Konrad Jule Hammer . As a result, his broad artistic work was presented in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Goertz also wrote almost 1,000 articles for magazines and newspapers and published stories and poems in anthologies and on the radio. He has also written radio plays, stage plays, the two novels Johannes Geisterseher and Lachen und Heulen as well as the Rowohlt monographs on Erwin Piscator , Gustaf Gründgens , Hieronymus Bosch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt .

In 1983 he received the artist grant from the state of Lower Saxony. On his 90th birthday in 2001, awards appeared in domestic and foreign newspapers.

Goertz last lived with his wife and colleague Angela Goertz in Auetal near Hanover.

Works

Novels

  • Johannes ghost seer. Novel. Berlin, Karl Heinz Henssel Verlag 1942.
  • Laughter and howl. Novel. Munich, List-Verlag 1982. ISBN 3-471-77632-X

Stage works and world premieres

  • The thunderstorm: play in five acts, Berlin W 15, assembly stage sales 1945
  • Doctor Wanner: Acting in 4 acts. From Friedrich Wolf zs. with Heinrich Goertz. Berlin: Construction stage sales 1945.
  • The legacy of the Galuche. Comedy in 3 acts by Alin Monjardin. Trans. V. Heinrich Goertz. 1946
  • Peter Kiewe: or The Method of Thaddäus Wohltat and Dr. Branch. Drama. Berlin: Henschel & Sohn 1946. First performance July 22, 1946 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • The golden valley. By Mikhail Arkad'evič Svetlov. In Dt. transfer by Tatjana Greif u. Heinrich Goertz. The poems over. Hedda Zinner. Output: reproduced as Ms. Berlin: Henschel 1950
  • The institute of Mr. Maillard. First performance in 1950 at the Ernst Barlach Theater in Güstrow
  • Life is not a dream. First performance in 1951 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin
  • Seán O'Casey : Farewell at 4 a.m. - Director: Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor, 1959
  • The terrible company in the attic. First performance in 1962 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • The Antigone of Sophocles. With Heinrich Kreppel. Play. World premiere: 13.03.69 Hanover, Landestheater
  • Candide or Voltaire's Optimism. First performance in 1985 at the State Theater in Hanover
  • The Antigone des Sophocles / in the version by Heinrich Goertz. Boing & Co. Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal. The Badische Landesbühne Corporation, Bruchsal 1991.

Rowohlt monographs

Radio plays

  • Jack the Ripper. 1975
  • Joachimsthaler 35 (Murder in the Joachimsthaler). 1976

Varia and exhibition catalogs

  • Theater am Schiffbauerdamm: 5 years artistic director Fritz Wisten / [Red. Heinrich Goertz]. Berlin: Greif 1951
  • Comedic theater. Fritz Wisten and his ensemble. Edited by Heinrich Goertz and Roman Weyl. Henschel Verlag 1957
  • Macbeth: Tragedy by William Shakespeare / from the original text trans. by Rudolf Schaller. [Ed .: Heinrich Goertz]. Berlin 1959
  • External positions of the real: Günter Anlauf, Chargesheimer, Heinrich Goertz, Grandville, Gudrun von Leitner, Male; Exhibition from October 11 to November 2, 1969 at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 1969
  • The portrait as a commission: e. Workshop book / Ed. U. Carrier d. exhibition of the same name, Wilmersdorf Art Office. Texts and Red. Udo Christoffel. Einf. Heinrich Goertz. About Hanns Fechner Kurt Pomplun. Photos Ingeborg Lommatzsch. Berlin: Wilmersdorf Art Office 1974
  • In the tents: fun in the zoo; Haus am Lützowplatz in collaboration with Neue Heimat Berlin December 1976 - February 1977 / Documentation: Heinrich Goertz, Siegfried Kiok and Kurt Pomplun. Exhibition, Berlin, 1976
  • Lützowplatz Chronicle: Changes in the Tiergarten; [House on Lützowplatz June - September 1977] / Documentation: Heinrich Goertz, Siegfried Kiok and Kurt Pomplun, exhibition, Berlin: Fördererkreis 1977
  • Pictures, drawings, lithographs; Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum, Grefrath, Kreis Viersen, December 18, 1977 - February 26, 1978 / Museumsverein Dorenburg eV Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum Corporation Museumverein Dorenburg. Grefrath: Museum Association Dorenburg 1977
  • "On play writing in the democratic sector". In: Theater in Berlin after 1945: materials for e. Discussion / Dramaturgical Society. Berlin, 1984. pp. 7-13.
  • Arnold Leissler. Braunschweig: Westermann 1984 (Lower Saxony contemporary artists; NF, Vol. 23) ISBN 9783145091232 (formerly: 3145091239)
  • "The twenties 1920-1929" in: Culture diary: 1900 to today. Braunschweig: Westermann 1984.
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Oil on canvas. In: Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar Bremen local association:: Annual booklet // Bremen local association of the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar. - Bremen, ZDB-ID 12925020, 1994. (1994). P. 5: Ill
  • Narrative painting. (Catalog of the work exhibition in the Kubus Hannover), organized by the cultural office of the state capital Hannover, Hannover, Schäfer 1997.
  • "My teacher Max Peiffer Watenphul" in: Essen exhibition catalog (2006), pp. 24–29.

In addition, he has worked for decades on the (Berlin) Tagesspiegel, Rheinische Post, General-Anzeiger Bonn, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Wiener Presse and others. a.

A selection of exhibitions

Solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad as well as various public purchases and the like. a .:

  • 1963: Galerie Konrad Jule Hammer in the house on Lützowplatz in Berlin
  • 1972: Limbrock Gallery, Dinslaken
  • 1972: Galerie Hüning, Münster
  • 1975: Gallery Schwertl, Fürth
  • 1975: Zierenberg Gallery, Kassel
  • 1975: Horst Behrend Gallery, Berlin
  • 1977: House on Lützowplatz, Berlin
  • 1977: Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum, Grefrath
  • 1980: kubus, Hanover
  • 1991: Bremen City Library
  • 1993: Posthof, Nienburg
  • 1997: Kubus, Hanover
  • 1999: Tea house, Bad Freienwalde
  • 2000: Book and art dealer Leuwer, Bremen
  • 2001: arche, Hameln
  • 2006: Literary Week, Bremen
  • 2006: Bremerhaven City Library
  • 2009: Villa Duconténia, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (France)

Theater (direction)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.duisburger-kuenstlerbund.de/DKB_60-Jahre-Geschichte_1923-83.pdf
  2. ↑ See Rühle, Günther: Theater in Deutschland 1945–1966 . S. Fischer 2014, pp. 403, 1232 and 1362.
  3. ↑ cf. Comedic theater. Fritz Wisten and his ensemble. Edited by Heinrich Goertz and Roman Weyl. Henschelverlag 1957, p. 133f.
  4. ↑ cf. Funke, Christoph and Wolfgang Jansen: Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Ch. Links Verlag 1992.
  5. ^ Rühle, Günther: Theater in Deutschland 1945–1966 , S. Fischer 2014, p. 387
  6. ↑ Erwin Piscator in self-testimonies and photo documents. 1974. ISBN 9783499502217 (formerly: ISBN 3499502216 )
  7. ↑ a b Writer and painter Heinrich Goertz turns 90. In: derStandard.at. May 14, 2001, accessed December 14, 2017 .
  8. ^ Heinrich Goertz. Narrative painting. Hanover 1997 (catalog of the work exhibition in the cube Hanover), organized by the cultural office of the state capital Hanover
  9. ↑ http://www.literatur-niedersachsen.de/autoren/detailansicht/heinrich-goertz.html
  10. ^ Wallstein Verlag: Literature in Lower Saxony. Wallstein Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-892-44443-5 , p. 33 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  11. ↑ cf. Denkler, Horst: Ruined works, debris from life: literary traces of the 'lost generation of the Third Reich. Walter de Gruyter. 2006, p. 46
  12. ↑ Werner Ross: Goertz, Heinrich: Laughing and Howling. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 3, 1982, p. 26 , accessed January 7, 2017 .
  13. ↑ DNB 573241473
  14. ↑ DNB 575168382
  15. ↑ cf. Rühle, Günther: Theater in Germany 1945–1966. S. Fischer 2014, pp. 1232 and 1362
  16. ^ Berlin: Verlag Bruno Henschel & Sohn, around 1950. 66 p. Text book (printed as a manuscript)
  17. ↑ cf. Rühle, Günther: Theater in Germany 1945–1966. S. Fischer 2014, p. 387
  18. ↑ cf. Rühle, Günther: Theater in Germany 1945–1966. S. Fischer 2014, p. 1419
  19. ^ Heinrich Goertz: Narrative painting. Hanover 1997 (catalog of the work exhibition in the cube Hanover), organized by the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, p. 7
  20. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=5/TTL=11/SHW?FRST=20/PRS=HOL
  21. ↑ http://www.hoerdat.in-berlin.de/voll.php?a=Goertz&b=+Jack+the+ripper&c=WDR
  22. ↑ http://www.hoerdat.in-berlin.de/voll.php?a=Goertz&b=+Joachimstaler+35&c=SFB+%3F
  23. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=274858282
  24. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=2/TTL=11/SHW?FRST=11/PRS=HOL
  25. ↑ http://www.peifferwatenphul.de/7_2_texte_02_%20goertz.html
  26. ↑ http://www.peifferwatenphul.de/6_1_bibliografie_en.html
  27. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=5/TTL=41/SHW?FRST=43/PRS=HOL
  28. ↑ http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=5/TTL=43/PRS=HOL/SHW?FRST=44
  29. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  30. ↑ Retrospective : Heinrich Goertz. Narrative painting. Hanover 1997 (catalog of the work exhibition in the cube Hanover), organized by the cultural office of the state capital Hanover
  31. ↑ https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=842819088
  32. ↑ http://www.shortnews.de/id/245154/heinrich-goertz-90-geburtstag
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personal data
SURNAME Goertz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goertz, Hinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage designer, dramaturge, painter, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2006
Place of death Buckeburg