Jürgen Hinrich Hewers

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Jürgen Hinrich Hewers (born March 17, 1924 in Königsberg i. Pr .; † September 15, 2017 in Flensburg ) was a German violinist and concert master .

Life

From the age of five, Hewers received violin lessons from his father August Hewers (concert master of the Königsberg Opera Orchestra and first violinist of the Königsberg string quartet ). Jürgen Hinrich Hewers attended the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in his hometown. In 1940 he began studying with Max Strub in Berlin, which he then continued with Gustav Havemann . In 1942 he made his debut with Paganini's Violin Concerto in D major as a soloist at a Konigsberg Symphony Concerts under the musical direction of Wilhelm Franz Reuss . As a result, he also appeared in other major cities of the German Empire (Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden and Breslau) and in the East Prussian province. In the same year he was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht . Dismissed for health reasons, he spent the end of the Second World War as a registrar in the Ostseebad Rauschen .

In 1945 he succeeded Heinrich Schachtebeck as first concertmaster at the Altenburg State Theater . From 1946 to 1948 he worked in Sondershausen . Then he became 1st concert master at the Anhaltinisches Landestheater Dessau . In 1951/52 he took over the post of second first concert master at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . During his Leipzig years he also taught at the local music college . Subsequently he was engaged as 1st concertmaster with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in East Berlin.

In 1957 he went to the Federal Republic and worked with the Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra in Hanover as well as in Ulm and Braunschweig. From 1962 until his retirement he was first concertmaster of the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater and Symphony Orchestra in Flensburg .

Hewers was married. He was a member of the Freemason Lodge in the north of Flensburg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 143.
  2. ↑ Os: A successful orchestral career . In: Das Ostpreußenblatt , Christmas 1985, episode 51/52, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Obituary in the Flensburger Tageblatt on September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hewers, Jürgen Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2017
Place of death Flensburg