Lena Hutter

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Lena Hutter , also Liselotte Heinz-Hutter (* 1911 ; †  December 18, 2003 in Maßbach , Lower Franconia ) was a German actress, founder and theater director of the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach .

Life

Before the Second World War, Hutter worked as an actress in Berlin . There she was married to the actor and director Oskar Ballhaus († 1972) in her first marriage . From this marriage came the Hollywood cameraman Michael Ballhaus and the family therapist Nele Maar , née Ballhaus.

The actors and actresses Ballhaus / Hutter were close to the communists . The family's Berlin apartment was a meeting place for artists and intellectuals who were in opposition to the Nazis . At times, a Jewish friend of the parents was hidden in the apartment.

Because of the bombing of Berlin in 1943, Hutter and the children moved to live with a relative in Coburg in Upper Franconia , where the family stayed in the first few years after the war. Since the couple was politically unaffected, they received permission to perform from the American occupiers, gathered a few artists, mostly actors, and founded the “Coburg Cultural Circle” for readings , recitations and musical performances. For example, they brought Georg Solti to one of his first concerts in post-war Germany in Coburg.

On April 17, 1946, the couple founded the “ Franconian Theater ”, which moved to Wetzhausen Castle in 1948 , Stöckach Castle in 1954 and finally Maßbach Castle in 1960 , where it still operates successfully today. Despite the divorce from Oskar Ballhaus, both continued to run their private theater together.

In his second marriage, Hutter married the actor and director Herbert Heinz (1922–2002), who belonged to the ensemble of the "Franconian Theater" from the start and who played a decisive role in shaping the theater with his directorial work.

After the death of the theater founder Ballhaus (1972), Hutter ran the “Fränkische Theater” with her second husband until her death in 2003. In 2000, she brought her granddaughter Anne Maar , daughter of the children's book author Paul Maar , into the house. Lena Heinz-Hutter was seen on the stage of her own theater until shortly before her death.

literature

  • Otto J. Groeg: Who's who in the Arts , page 817, Who's Who-Book & Pub, 1978, ISBN 392122022X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Käthe Jowanowitsch, Stephanie Rapp: "Don't speak ..." - cameraman Michael Ballhaus on war and liberation