Ludwig Hoelscher

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Ludwig Hoelscher (born August 23, 1907 in Solingen ; † May 8, 1996 in Tutzing ) was a German cellist .

Life

Hoelscher was the youngest of three children of a jeweler and hobby violinist who had decided to found a “family string quartet”. The young Ludwig began playing the cello at the age of six. From the age of ten he gained experience in domestic chamber music , but without emerging as a child prodigy .

Hoelscher studied cello playing in Cologne, Munich, Leipzig and Berlin, among others with Hugo Becker , Julius Klengel and Wilhelm Lamping (1880–1951). In 1930 he received (together with Ibolyka Zilzer , 1906–1971) the Mendelssohn Prize for performing musicians. His musical career began with the acquaintance of the pianist Elly Ney , who founded the Elly Ney piano trio with him and the violinist Wilhelm Stross in 1932 . From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Strub Quartet in Berlin.

In 1931 Hoelscher made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Max Fiedler .

Career in the "Third Reich"

Hoelscher was considered one of the most important artists in the Nazi state , which was also reflected in his inclusion in the " Gottbegnadeten-Liste " ("Führer list") published by the Reich Propaganda Ministry in August 1944, which freed him from military service.

On May 1, 1937, Hoelscher became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 5.156.776). Since April 1, 1937, the 29-year-old has been a professor at the Berlin School of Music . On May 29, 1938 he was a soloist in the final concert of the first Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf, where the Nazi propaganda exhibition Degenerate Music was shown. In the same year Hoelscher appeared at the Beethoven Days of the Hitler Youth in Wildbad and at the cultural-political labor camp of the Reich Youth Leadership in Weimar and played at the “Festival of Lights” in front of the workforce of four industrial companies. From 1938 Hoelscher also worked as a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. For the purpose of “cultural propaganda” he performed in occupied Belgium in 1942 at traveling concerts for the Wehrmacht in Antwerp, Ghent, Mechelen, Leuven, Lier and St. Niklaas. These concerts were repeated in 1943, and he had additional appearances in Bucharest, Lemberg, Lublin and Warsaw. A few months before the end of the war, on December 2, 1944, he performed with the Philharmonic of the General Government in Krakow. This "Philharmonic of the Government General" was an orchestra founded by " Governor General " Hans Frank for propaganda purposes and made up of top Polish musicians. There was an entry in Frank's diary: “Krakow concert with Prof. Hoelscher”. In this concert, conducted by Hans Swarowsky , there was also the world premiere of Pfitzner's composition Krakauer Willkommen , which was dedicated to Hans Frank.

Career in post-war Germany

Despite membership in various National Socialist organizations such as the NSDAP, the Reichskolonialbund and the Altherrenbund der Deutschen Studenten , Ludwig Hoelscher was able to continue his career after the Second World War. From 1954 to 1972 he was a professor at the Stuttgart University of Music. Numerous concert tours have taken him around the world, including Japan for the first time in 1953, where he became an honorary member of Ueno University Tokyo . In addition to many other awards, he also received honorary membership of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn association .

Ludwig Hoelscher appeared as a soloist and as a chamber musician throughout his life (with Elly Ney , Walter Gieseking , Hans Richter-Haaser , Wilhelm Kempff , Wilhelm Keilmann , Carl Seemann , Adrian Aeschbacher , Kurt Rapf, among others ). He has premiered over 50 works (among others by Wolfgang Fortner , Martin Karl Hasse , Joseph Rheinberger , Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Hans Pfitzner , Walter Gieseking, Karl Höller , Harald Genzmer , Hans Werner Henze , Ernst Krenek , Heinrich Sutermeister , Peter Jona Korn , Günter Bialas , Wilhelm Keilmann , Casimir von Pászthory ). He also premiered works by Paul Hindemith in Germany. The cello sonata op.30 (1935) by Theodor Hausmann is dedicated to Ludwig Hoelscher.

Discography

Hoelscher made numerous recordings, some of which have now also appeared on CDs (Bayer Records; Haenssler ; forgotten-records, France).

literature

  • Erich Valentin : Cello, the instrument and its master Ludwig Hoelscher . Neske, Pfullingen 1955.
  • Max Kaindl-Hönig: Ludwig Hoelscher (The great interpreters). Kister, Geneva 1964.
  • Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski : Ludwig Hoelscher . Schneider, Tutzing 1967.
  • Hans Schneider (Ed.): Ludwig Hoelscher on his 75th birthday . Schneider, Tutzing 1982.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . CD-ROM lexicon. Kiel 2004.
  • Ernst Klee : Happy hours in Auschwitz. How German artists kept their murdering compatriots in occupied Poland happy . In: Die Zeit , No. 5/2007, zeit.de ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fringes, Deutschlandfunk-Kalenderblatt.
  2. ↑ Klaus lens Meyer: The Complete Recordings Telefunken, booklet, p.14 . Ed .: Warner Music Group Company.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 5.
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 255.
  5. ^ Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 3137.
  6. ^ Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 3138.
  7. ↑ Klee: Merry Hours in Auschwitz , p. 5.
  8. ^ Memberships according to Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 255.
  9. ↑ Art and Culture. Soloist concerts. Ludwig Hoelscher (...) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 17, 1952, p. 5 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ↑ https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/gl/hausmann-theodor/
personal data
SURNAME Hoelscher, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1996
Place of death Tutzing