Julius Kapp

Julius Kaspar Kapp (born October 1, 1883 in Steinbach (today a district of Baden-Baden ), Baden , † March 18, 1962 in Sonthofen ) was a German dramaturge and author .

Life

Kapp studied music, natural sciences and philology at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Munich. From 1904 to 1907 he was head of the literary gazette in Marburg. In 1907 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the " Kappa ratio of the specific heats of a gas mixture". phil. As a music writer, he set out with his great Richard Wagner - Biography a name that appeared 1910th He then became known as the editor of the 14-volume collection of Wagner's writings and letters. In addition, Kapp published various books on Franz Liszt (1909), Hector Berlioz (1917), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1920) and Carl Maria von Weber (1922).

From 1921 to 1945 Kapp worked as a dramaturge at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and editor of the State Opera's in -house papers . From 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1937 he published a history of the Berlin Opera , to which Hermann Göring wrote a foreword. In addition, from 1939 onwards, as successor to Georg Dröscher , Kapp headed the library of the Prussian State Theaters.

Kapp also created opera adaptations. In Germany's opera was Nabucco in the era of National Socialism because of the subject from the history of Israel undesirable. In 1940, Kapp created an "Aryanized" version in which he had Egyptians appear instead of the Israelites. In the “prisoner's choir” Va, pensiero he replaced the Jordan with the Nile and Zion with Memphis . This Nazi version “Fly, thought, carried by longing” with the line “Teure Heimat, when will I see you again” is still widespread in sound recordings and on the Internet.

After the Second World War , Kapp was dramaturge at the Städtische Oper Berlin from 1948 to 1954 . Then he lived as a freelance writer and director in the Allgäu .

Fonts

(Selection)

• Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. A friendship , 1908
• Liszt. A biography , 1909 ( digitized 6th / 7th edition 1911 )
• Frank Wedekind. His peculiarity and his works , 1909
• Richard Wagner. A biography , 1910
• Richard Wagner and the women. An erotic biography , 1912
• Paganini. A biography , 1913
• Berlioz. A biography , 1917
• Meyerbeer , 1920 (later under the title Giacomo Meyerbeer. A biography )
• Franz Schreker. The man and his work , 1921
• Weber , 1922 (later under the title Carl Maria von Weber. A biography )
• The Opera of the Present , 1922
• The opera book. A history of opera and a musical and dramatic guide through the repertory operas , 1923
• History of the Staatsoper Berlin , 1937
• From the realm of opera. A look behind the scenes , 1949

• Richard Wagner's Collected Writings and Letters , 14 volumes, 1914 (editor)

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Kapp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Photo by Julius Kapp

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Volume 1. KG Saur, Munich 2005, p. 524, entry Kapp, Julius .
2. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 295.
3. ^ Felix Losert: Berlin Verdi Festival - Genius with Guitar. In: Tagesspiegel , January 31, 2001.
4. ↑ For example: Freedom Choir of the Prisoners from the opera Nabucco. In: Singing with Refugees , Orchestra & Choir of the University of Bremen, accessed April 22, 2017.
   Flieg Gedanke (prisoner choir ) - translation , golyr.de.
   Coro del Nabucco. In: Frank Petersohn: ingeb.org - folk songs from all over the world .
5. ^ Udo Bermbach: Richard Wagner in Germany. Reception - falsifications. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, p. 21, fn. 55.