Magnus Henning

Magnus Henning and Therese Giehse

Magnus Henning (* 1904 ; † 1995 in Imst , Tyrol) was a Baltic composer and pianist . He staged and set texts by Erika and Klaus Mann for the political cabaret Die Pfeffermühle , which opened in Munich on January 1, 1933 .

Less than a month before the Nazis came to power and Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, Therese Giehse , Erika and Klaus Mann and Magnus Henning founded the literary cabaret Die Pfeffermühle in Munich . This Munich cabaret involuntarily became the first German-language exile theater . After a new start in Zurich in October 1933 , the pepper mill moved through many European countries with constantly changing ensemble members until the late summer of 1936. In addition to Erika Mann, Therese Giehse, who also directed, and Magnus Henning, who set almost all of the texts to music and accompanied the lecturers on the piano, and, for a time, Sybille Schloß stayed with them . The attempt to convince the American public as Peppermill in New York in 1937 failed. After a few performances in January of that year, after four years the curtain finally fell on cabaret. He returned to Munich and worked there at the artist cabaret bar Simplicissimus . During the Second World War he was an armed forces officer. Magnus Henning died at the age of 91 in Imst.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cabaret “Die Pfeffermühle”, 1933–1937 , historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de, accessed on July 1, 2015
2. ↑ Irmela von der Lühe : Erika Mann: A life story. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-62535-0 (online)

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