Hermann Feiner

Isidor Hermann Israel Feiner (born October 6, 1888 in Stanislau , Austria-Hungary ; died October 3, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian actor , singer , director and theater manager who worked in Germany until 1933.

Life

Feiner, who came from the then Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia , began his stage career in 1904 as an actor and singer ( tenor voice ) at the Szczecin Bellevue Theater. This was followed by engagements at the city theater in Kiel , the Breslauer Schauspielhaus and in Leipzig . In 1909 he returned to Szczecin to work as an actor and director of the operetta at the Bellevue Theater. In 1911 Feiner arrived in Berlin , where the Theater des Westens had taken him.

After the First World War , Hermann Feiner made a name for himself as a singer with songs like Grandmama, let your hair cut be talked about and celebrated successes at the Hamburg Operettenhaus . At the end of the 1920s, Feiner reached the peak of his career as senior director at the so-called Haller Revues and deputy director at the theater in the Admiralspalast . At times he was also hired as the artistic director of Haus Vaterland . In addition, Feiner worked as a guest director and author - for example he wrote the text for Drei alten Schachteln - and was involved in the direction of Willi Wolff's movie Nur Du in 1930 .

In 1933 the Jewish artist fell into isolation. In December 1934 Feiner emigrated to Vienna , where he worked as a dramaturge for Trio-Verlag. His wife, the Hungarian singer Vilma Conti (1877–1936), died there in October 1936. Feiner then left Austria and moved to the Netherlands . There Feiner took part in German-language entertainment and cabaret programs and staged his own revues, for example at the Rotterdam Arena.

During the occupation of the country by German troops, Hermann Feiner was arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp . There he took part in German-language camp programs such as Humor and Melodie and Bravo! In autumn 1943 . Da Capo participated and took part in various revue numbers. His colleagues from Berlin, Max Ehrlich and Kurt Gerron , were at his side . On January 18, 1944, he was deported from Westerbork to the Theresienstadt ghetto and on October 1, 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was presumably gassed immediately upon arrival.

Hermann Feiner's daughter Ruth Feiner was a writer and survived the German persecution of Jews as an emigrant in London .

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 111.
• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 166.
• Feiner, Hermann. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 561-562.

Web links

• Hermann Feiner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• At home 'my gramophone , from the revue “From A to Z” (Edgar Allan) Odeon dance orchestra with singing [= Hermann Feiner?]. Odeon A 41 333 / O-1473 (Be 4832)
• Potpourri from the Haller-Revue 1927-28 "When and where" (Walter Kollo, text by Herman Haller, Rideamus and Willi Wolff) I u. II. Mme. Marcelle Rahna, Hermann Feiner, u. the original Lawrence-Tiller-Girls u. Admiral Girls. Conductor: Willi Lachner. Electrola EH76 (4-019 259 and 4-059 260) - 1928
• Grandma get your hair cut . Foxtrot (Hans May) from the Haller review “Schön und schick”. Dajos Béla Orchestra. Singing: Hermann Feiner. Odeon O-2588 a (Be 7161)
• She only wants balloons (In The Sweet Bye And Bye) Foxtrot (Bryan, Wheeler & Wendling) from the Haller revue “Schön und schick”. Dajos Béla Orchestra. Singing: Hermann Feiner. Odeon O-2588 b (Be 7162)