Heinrich Kreutz (Director)

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Heinrich Kreutz (* 22. August 1891 in Munich , † after 1952) was a German singer , assistant director , stage director and theater intendant .

Career

Kreutz received his artistic training at the Academy for Tonkunst in his hometown of Munich. Then (from 1921) he worked as a singer in Ulm, Sondershausen, Zwickau, Würzburg and Halle. In 1930 Siegfried Wagner brought him to Bayreuth as assistant director at the Wagner Festival. At that time, from 1926 to 1935, Kreutz was also the opera director in Halle. From 1933 to 1939 he was the artistic director of the Altmärkisches Landestheater in Stendal . After the Second World War he worked at the Zittau City Theater. In 1952 Heinrich Kreutz went to the Greiz City Theater as senior director.

Theater (direction)

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt a. Vienna 1960, p. 1102

Web links

  • Heinrich Kreutz Entry in: Thomas Eicher, Barbara Panse, Henning Rischbieter: Theater in the “Third Reich”, 2000.