Heinrich Werlé

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Heinrich Werlé (born May 2, 1887 in Bensheim , † May 26, 1955 in Leipzig ) was a German choir director , organist and music critic .

Life

Werlé, the son of a civil servant, was initially a music teacher at a school in Leipzig, and since 1926 he has been a student councilor. From 1928 to 1945 he taught as a music lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Leipzig .

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and was registered with effect from May 1, 1933 under membership number 2,989,562. He was also a member of the National Socialist teachers ' and lecturers' association . In addition to teaching, he became head of the Chamber Choir of the Nazi broadcast group Gau Saxony and the department choir - and folk music in the Nazi broadcast group in Reichssender Leipzig . In his contribution to the situation of folk music on the radio in the Leipzig magazine Volk im Werden , he described the Weimar Republic as “the time span of liberalism that lies behind us”, which “out of lazy philistine comfort, also in the folk way, mixed so much foreign, false and mendacious things with one another merged "that first of all it has to be cleared. Only what is true to life and what is close to the people finds its way directly to German people. [...] The prerequisites for something different are not based on a new aesthetic, but rest securely in the moral strength of the responsible National Socialism. ”Werlé was from 1937 to 1943 Chief editor of the magazine for folk music Gut Ton in Dresden.

After the Second World War he worked as a professor at the University of Halle from 1946 . In the same year he founded the chamber choir of the transmitter Leipzig , whose direction he took over. In 1953 he did his doctorate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena on the subject of music in the life of children .

The church musician Johannes Petzold was one of his students .

Works

  • Methodology of teaching music at the elementary level . Kistner & Siegel, Leipzig 1930.
  • Folk music on the radio . Hesse, Berlin 1932.
  • The male choir conductor in a folk song . Kistner & Siegel, Leipzig 1932.
  • Franz Schubert. Man and his work . Rather, Berlin 1941.
  • Franz Schubert in his letters and notes . S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1948.
  • Music in the child's life . Ehlermann, Dresden 1949.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 7693–7694.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 7693
  2. ↑ Complete quotation from Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 7694
  3. ↑ Thomas Phleps: The correct method or what music educators argue about .
  4. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians , p. 5184
personal data
SURNAME Werlé, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir director, organist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1955
Place of death Leipzig