Herta Boehm

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Herta Boehm (born January 10, 1911 in Munich ; † October 1, 2002 in Apfeldorf , Bavaria ) was a German set designer , costume designer and painter .

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Herta Boehm received private drawing lessons in Berlin from 1928 to 1930 and then trained in stage design by Traugott Müller and Eduard Suhr at the Free Volksbühne. She then assisted Müller in countless theater projects until the end of the 1930s. In 1938 Herta Boehm made her debut as an independent set designer for the comedy Marguerite: 3 at the Small House of the State Theater under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens . She stayed there until 1941. Subsequently, Boehm worked until 1943 at the Volksbühne Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Burgtheater and the municipal theaters in Essen.

After the war, Herta Boehm initially designed at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she worked with Karl Heinz Stroux , the Städtisches Theater Düsseldorf and the Deutsches Theater Berlin. During this time she met her old sponsor Gründgens again (in Düsseldorf). The sets for the theater classics Oedipus , Hamlet , Faust and Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding were among her best-known designs of those (later 1940s) years . But she also designed the set for Sartre's modern, existentialist work The Flies , which celebrated its German premiere in Düsseldorf in 1947. In the first post-war years (1946 to 1948), the Munich resident led individual contracts to the Berlin State Opera, the Städtische Oper Berlin and the Kammerspiele Munich. Since 1947 the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, to which Gründgens later also moved, became her central place of work.

Among the most important productions of the 1950s that Boehm was responsible for scenically designed were Donizetti's Liebestrank (Staatsoper Berlin, 1951), Verdi's Macbeth (Maggio Musicale Florenz, 1952), Rossini's Wilhelm Tell (Maggio Musicale Florenz, 1953), Miller's witch hunt (Kammerspiele Munich, 1954) , Hasenclever's A Better Man and Zuckmayer's The Cold Light (both Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 1955). In the 1960s, the artist, who had also worked as a costume designer and painter (style of magic realism) and had also excelled artistically in other disciplines (such as the design of theater curtains, tapestries and mosaics), withdrew because of a back problem back to work. Herta Boehm has also participated in several films with designs (costumes and sets), most of which were staged by her theater directors Müller, Gründgens and Stroux.

Herta Boehm is often confused with an actress of almost the same name named Hert (h) a Böhm.

Filmography

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 64.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 147.

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personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Herta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German set designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2002
Place of death Apple village