Heinz A. Condell

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Heinz Condell

Heinz A. Condell (born January 24, 1905 in Berlin , † November 7, 1951 in New York ) was a set and costume designer in Germany and the USA.

Life

Condell began his training with the theater maker Max Reinhardt , first of his own works for the theater of the Jewish Cult Association, of which he was a co-founder. In 1932 he became head of equipment at the Berlin State Opera , but in 1933 he was dismissed as a Jew. Thereupon he joined the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden , sections Berlin, Hamburg and Breslau, and became their head of equipment. Condell oversaw productions such as Nathan the Wise , The Marriage of Figaro , Othello , The Bartered Bride , What You Want , Hoffmann's Tales , The Barber of Seville , The Merry Wives of Windsor , Die Csárdásfürstin , Eugene Onegin , Rigoletto and Much Ado About Nothing . At the premiere of his last play, Merton Hodges' Regen und Wind (October 1938), Heinz Condell had already left Germany.

In September 1938 Condell emigrated to the USA. His first major theater work was in 1940 for George Bernard Shaw's “ Die Heilige Johanna ” in Washington, DC, staged by Erwin Piscator with Luise Rainer in the title role.

From 1944 to 1950, a year before his death, he worked with the New York City Opera .

In addition to many works for the American League for Opera, the Studio-Theater der New School , the Austrian Theater, the Philadelphia's Academy of Arts, the Montreal Music Festival, the Bryn Mawr College Festival, the Shoe String Opera Company and Columbia University's Opera Workshop taught Condell set design at Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop , whose art director he became in 1942. Stateless on his death, he was posthumously granted US citizenship.

With his second (since 1943) wife Luba, nee Bloom, an actress at the Yiddish Theater in New York, he had a son named Cary.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frithjof Trapp, Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists .
  2. ↑ Jeanine Meerapfel: Ha Condell, Scenic Designer, Dies at 45. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THEATER BILLY ROSE COLLECTION: HA (Heinz A.) Condell, 1905-1951 - Papers and designs, from 1929 to 1969. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Luise Rainer, Celebrating the life and work of Luise Rainer (1910-2014). Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THEATER BILLY ROSE COLLECTION: HA (Heinz A.) Condell, 1905-1951 - Papers and designs, from 1929 to 1969. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Condell, Heinz A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1951
Place of death new York