Kurt Sieder
Kurt Josef Karl Theodor Sieder (born September 23, 1899 in Mannheim ; † September 28, 1964 in Bonn ) was a German theater director and founder of the Grenzlandtheater Aachen .
Live and act
The son of the music director Wilhelm Sieder and the actress Elisabeth Sieder, b. De Lank, after completing his school days, first completed an apprenticeship in a bank and then switched to drama school. After several stops in between, Sieder received an engagement as an actor and co-director at the Nürnberg-Fürther-Kammerspiele. He got his first marriage in Nuremberg in 1921.
During the Second World War he was drafted as an officer in the Air Force and in 1944 met his second wife Gerda (1916–2002), a native of Aachen and a trained singer, who sang chansons and operettas on a front stage . The two married that same year.
In the summer of 1945 Sieder was appointed to the Aachen city theater to reorganize the theater after the end of the war. Because of the war-related damage to the theater building, he had to resort to alternatives for the office as well as for the rehearsal and performance rooms, such as the Aachen City Library . He was supported by his wife Gerda as well as by a small group of like-minded artists who initially only appeared in the theater for an equivalent value in "natural produce", such as food, coffee or tobacco, and at the same time for business people, entrepreneurs and prominent private individuals Reconstruction of the theater solicited grants.
Sieder stayed at the theater for almost a year and then moved to another institution for a few years before returning to Aachen in 1950. Here he founded a room theater , which he converted a year later into a GmbH together with the then Aachen district and other shareholders . It was completely taken over by the district in 1956 and renamed Grenzlandtheater Aachen in 1962 . Kurt Sieder established the theater, designed for 200 spectators, which from 1956 found its venue in what was then Nuellens-Passage and today's Elisengalerie opposite the Elisenbrunnen , during his management as a fixture in Aachen's cultural landscape and managed it until his death. Sieder repeatedly presented prominent guests such as Lil Dagover and René Deltgen . The commitment of director Veit Harlan for the 1962/63 season, who directed the anti-Semitic film Jud Suss , was classified as a scandal and bad planning. After massive protests, Sieder wanted to unload Harlan, but Harlan won his job in court.
Kurt Sieder ran the theater until his sudden death in 1964. A few years later, at the age of 24, his only son also died in an accident. Gerda Sieder remained connected to the Grenzlandtheater for life.
Kurt Sieder Prize
After Kurt Sieder's untimely death, his widow Gerda initiated the formation of the Kurt Sieder Foundation while she was still alive, into which her private assets, including her private house in Aachen-Brand, flowed as the sole heir. This foundation was supposed to award the Kurt Sieder Prize for outstanding acting achievements each year to one member of the ensemble of the Stadttheater and the Grenzlandtheater. The prize is endowed with 2000 euros per person and is awarded by an external five-person board of trustees. The Kurt Sieder Prize was first awarded for the 2003/04 season. Since then the following winners have been awarded:
| for the year | Prize winner Theater Aachen | Award winner Grenzlandtheater |
|---|---|---|
| 2003/04 | Heino Cohrs (for his overall performance) | Ingeborg Krabbe (for " Oskar and the Lady in Pink ") |
| 2004/05 | Petra Welteroth (for her overall performance) | Volker Risch (for " Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran ") |
| 2005/06 | Cornelia Dörr (for " The Maid of Orleans ") | Guido Hammesfahr (for "stones in my pockets") |
| 2006/07 | Rainer Krause (for his overall performance) | Regina Gisbertz (for "Diamonds") |
| 2007/08 | New Year's Eve from Hösslin (for " Leonce and Lena ") | Axel Herrig (for " In the White Horse Inn ") |
| 2008/09 | Julia Brettschneider (for puppetry and representation) | Michael Hiller (for "BuntesRepublik") |
| 2009/10 | Elke Borkenstein (for her overall performance) | Karl Walter Sprungala (for "Fully booked" and " The servant of two masters ") |
| 2010/11 | Karsten Meyer (for his overall performance) | Ingeborg Meyer (for her overall performance) |
| 2011/12 | Nadine Kiesewalter (for the overall performance of the past season) | Theo Pfeifer (for "The Interrogation") |
| 2012/13 | Elisabeth Ebeling (for the variety of her stage characters, which she has presented at the Aachener Theater since the 2005/2006 season) | Samuel Schürmann (For his portrayal as the travesty star Zaza alias Albin in the musical " La Cage aux Folles ") |
| 2013/14 | Katja Zinsmeister (for her overall performance) | Renate Fuhrmann (for the theater version " Harold and Maude ") |
| 2014/15 | Bettina Scheuritzel (for her overall performance) | Julian Looman (for "Cabaret") |
| 2015/16 | Philipp Manuel Rothkopf (for his overall performance) | Doris Dexl (for the role of the lawyer in "Once again, but better") |
| 2016/17 | Lara Beckmann (for her overall performance) | Volker Weidlich (for his role in "Das Abschiedsdinner") |
| 2017/18 | Alexander Wanat (for his overall performance) | Friederike Pöschel (for her role in " Scenes from a Marriage ") |
| 2018/19 | Stefanie Rösner (for her overall performance) | Philip Schlomm (for his role in "Revanche") |
literature
- Jenny Schmetz: A declaration of love to the theater , In: Aachener Nachrichten / Aachener Zeitung , print edition from June 1, 2013
- Klaus Schulte & Peter Sardoč: From Ringelhardt to Mundorf , artists and personalities of the Aachen City Theater , Verlag Josef Stippak, Aachen, 1977
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register of the StA Mannheim, No. 3057/1899
- ↑ Death register StA Bonn, No. 2140/1964
- ↑ Marriage register StA Nuremberg, No. 2730/1921
- ↑ Marriage register StA Aachen, No. 307/1944
- ↑ Sabine Rother: Art of dosage meets talent for metamorphosis , in: Aachener Nachrichten of August 27, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sieder, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sieder, Kurt Josef Karl Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director and founder of the Grenzlandtheater Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1964 |
| Place of death | Bonn |