Heinrich Karl Strohm

Heinrich Karl Strohm

Karl Heinrich Strohm (* 4. February 1895 in Elberfeld ; † 9. June 1959 in Cologne ) was a German director and theater and opera intendant .

Life

First working as a director at the theater in Kiel, he became director of the Bayerische Landesbühne , a touring theater. From 1925 to 1927 he directed the Würzburg City Theater , then until 1933 the City Theater Aachen . During his time as director of the Hamburg Opera (1933–1940) he developed the famous Hamburg style , with which he wanted to achieve a completely harmonious work of all participating artists. In 1937 he applied for membership in the NSDAP . In 1939 he directed the Salzburg Festival . During the 5th Reichstheaterwoche he made guest appearances with his house in Vienna, where he was appointed general manager of the Vienna State Opera as the successor to Erwin Kerber . Due to a serious illness, his term of office only lasted from September 1, 1940 to January 31, 1941. After his recovery, he worked as a director again. a. in December 1942 the opera Der Rosenkavalier in Rome . After 1945 Strohm was a member of the board of the German Stage Association . In the early 1950s he worked briefly as director of the Monschau Festival .

Strohm had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Alania Bonn since 1918.

literature

• German stage yearbook . 41st year. (Ed. Cooperative of German Stage Members), Verlag Genossenschaft Deutscher Stage Members, Berlin 1930, p. 234.
• Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 382, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 .
• Hubert Deutsch: The Vienna State Opera . Bildbuch Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7061-1010-5 .
• Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . Kiel 2004, CD-ROM Lexicon, p. 3545f.
• Uwe Harten : Strohm, Heinrich Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 ., P. 2341
• Klaus Schulte & Peter Sardoc: From Ringelhardt to Mundorf , artists and personalities of the Aachen City Theater , Verlag Josef Stippak, Aachen, 1977

Sound document

• German Broadcasting Archive : Lecture by General Director Heinrich Karl Strohm in 1936: “About the successful work at the Hamburg State Opera since 1933”, record 78 U 2365/8.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 601.
2. ↑ The mirror