Karl Groening
Karl Gröning (* 1897 ; † 1980 ) was a German set designer and director . He also became known as a poster painter . Carl Otto Czeschka was an influential teacher at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts .
life and work
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From 1917 Gröning designed his own stage sets, initially in Berlin and Belgrade until he returned to Hamburg in 1924 . From 1927 to 1933 he worked with Leopold Jessner at the Stadttheater Altona , among others for the productions Peer Gynt and John Gabriel Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen , Die Wölfe by Romain Rolland , Gas and From mornings to midnight by Georg Kaiser , Shakespeare's Othello and King Johann , Hauptmanns The Weber and Rose Bernd , Goethe's Egmont and Wedekind's music .
From 1935 Gröning became head of the equipment department at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , where he worked with well-known directors. a. Günther Haenel , Karl Wüstenhagen , Hans Schweikart , Jürgen Fehling , Otto Burger , Robert Michal , Albert Lippert , Heinrich Koch and Peter Hamel . Joint work followed with Karl-Heinz Stroux , Ulrich Erfurth and Gustaf Gründgens .
Karl Gröning was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg on the Pferdmenges family grave in grid square AD 18 (southwest of Chapel 7).
The estate of the scenic graphics is in the theater studies collection of the University of Cologne .
literature
- Rolf Italiaander (Ed.): The stage designer Karl Gröning , Hamburg, 1962.
Individual evidence
- ↑ KARL GRÖNING (1897-1980) German stage designer and writer. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ 'Hamburg' in the Stabi theater collection. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Gröning - Mediterranean city on the water. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ The son of Karl Gröning Sr., Karl Gröning Jr., was married to Gisela Pferdmenges
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
- ^ Directory of scenic graphics (PDF). Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groening, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German set designer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |