Johannes Maurach
Johannes Maurach (born May 31, 1883 in Schareyken , Oletzko district , East Prussia , † October 23, 1951 in Munich ) was a German theater actor and director.
Life
Maurach attended a humanistic grammar school in Königsberg, where he also passed the Abitur examination. At the request of his parents, he studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1902 and joined the Corps Rhenania there . At the end of October 1904 Maurach enrolled at the University of Rostock , where he also received his doctorate a little later. Only after completing his doctorate did he go to Munich, where he studied music and literary history. When Emil Milan and Franz Jacobi he enjoyed acting classes. He met the founder of the theater, today's Kammerspiele, Georg Stollberg , who brought him to his theater in 1906 and trained him as a director. On January 1, 1909, he took over the Regensburg City Theater and in 1912 became director in Essen. He was then from 1918 for a short time in Strasbourg in Alsace, before he left this after the end of the First World War as the last German director and went to Dortmund (1919/20 - 21/22). In 1922 he took over the municipal theaters in Nuremberg. There, under his direction, a systematic development of dramatic art took place, both in opera and in drama. The old city theater in Nuremberg was reopened in 1924 according to his plans after almost 20 years. Maurach left the city of Nuremberg in 1939 after differences with the Nuremberg Gauleiter Julius Streicher .
Maurach was committed to Gdansk as director in 1942. At the end of World War II, he was forced to leave the city and lost all of his possessions. He moved to Berlin and moved to the West in 1947. There he managed the theater in Hildesheim until 1948. That year he retired and lived in Munich until his death after a short illness.
literature
- German stage yearbook. 1953 Theater history year and address book . 61st year. Berlin, p. 75.
- Erika Bosl: Maurach, Johannes. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
Web links
- Johannes Maurach in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Johannes Maurach's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
Richard Balder (1905-1914) | Alois Pennarini (1914-1920) | Willy Stuhlfeld (1920–1922) | Johannes Maurach (1922–1939) | Wilhelm Hanke (1939–1945) | Walter Bruno Iltz (1946–1947) | Karl Pschigode (1947–1971) | without general manager (1971–1985) | Burkhard Mauer (1986–1991) | Lev Bogdan (1991-1996) | Wulf Konold (1996-2008) | Peter Theiler (2008–2018) | Jens-Daniel Herzog (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maurach, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schareyken , Oletzko District , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1951 |
| Place of death | Munich |