Matthias Schork

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Matthias Schork , pseudonym Walther Werth (born May 20, 1920 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ; † September 13, 1979, same place, Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a Romanian music teacher , university lecturer , composer and choir director .

life and work

Schork came from the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians . He attended the German Realgymnasium in Timișoara from 1931 to 1935 , and then from 1935 to 1939 the Catholic German Teacher Training Institute there . In Chereluş ( German  Cherelusch ) near Arad he worked from 1939 to 1941 as a teacher and then as a practice school teacher in Timişoara. In the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht from 1943 to 1945 and was deployed at the front. From 1945 to 1946 he was deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor .

After his return he worked from 1946 to 1950, first as a teacher, then temporarily as the school director in Peciu Nou ( Neupetsch ), where he also directed the "German Choir Neupetsch". Schork studied music in Timișoara until 1950 and then worked from 1950 to 1961 as a high school teacher (drawing and music) at the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum in Timișoara. At Schork's suggestion, a Schubert children's choir with 90 singers and wind instruments was established here in 1977, led by elementary school teacher Josef Gilde.

In 1961 Schork was appointed lecturer at the Timișoara Pedagogical Institute, where he was head of the chair for two years. In 1969 he was appointed lecturer. From 1976 to 1979 he took over from Herbert Weiss Head of 1969 by the German Council of the Working People Nationality in the Socialist Republic of Romania into being called Schubert Choir Timisoara . He led the choir until his death in 1979; Adrian Nuca-Bartzer was his successor. Under Schork, the ensemble achieved a high level of interpretation.

Private life

Schork was the “favorite student” of the academic Stefan Fassel († 1944). For a long time (until 1966) he lived in the third room of Fassel's widow Irene Mokka . In 1952 Schork married the much younger Susanne, a singer from his choir from Peciu Nou.

Awards

  • 1957 Order of Labor III. Class of the Socialist Republic of Romania

Publications (selection)

Schork was an author and wrote his own compositions and settings.

Books:

  • Between 1960 and 1971, Schork published numerous textbooks entitled Muzica for school classes of different ages.
  • He worked on the 1971 choir book by Andreas Porfetye : Deutsches Liedgut aus dem Banat, Siebenbürgen and Sathmarer Land .

Compositions:

  • Master Jakob and his children , play in 4 acts with music and song
  • Red roses , 5 acts of music and dance

Sound carrier:

  • Girl, jerk, jerk, jerk , folk song, mixed choir

literature

  • Hans Gehl : Schwäbisches Volksgut , Facla Verlag, 1984, DNB 860878945 .
  • William Marin: Brief history of the Banat Germans: with special consideration of their relations to the Romanian population and their attitude to the unification of 1918. Facla Verlag, 1980, OCLC 1068211721 , p. 199.
  • Franz Heinz : Wrapped up. Banat resonance box with Levantine chord. In: Spiegelungen: Journal for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe. Volume 61, No. 2, 2012, pp. 141-151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums. Breit Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 , entry: Matthias Schork
  2. ^ Banat newspaper . Episode 18 from November 15, 2012, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b c Walter Tonța: An unforgettable musical experience. ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Banater Post . October 26, 2012.
  4. ^ Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From supra-regional identity bearer to experimental theater. LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6 , p. 17.
  5. ^ A b Hans Fink : When the ballroom was too small. ( Memento of February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Banaterra. 2010.
  6. ^ Council of the Working People of German Nationality in the Socialist Republic of Romania : Plenary Meetings of the Councils of Working People of Hungarian and German Nationality in the Socialist Republic of Romania, 13.-14. March 1978. Politischer Verlag, 1978, DNB 800342585 , p. 87.
  7. ↑ Irene Mokka , Horst Fassel (Ed.): Diary 1948–1973. LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89781-128-7 , p. 67. (books.google.de)
  8. ↑ DNB 111961971
  9. ^ Franz Metz : A musical way of life. Obituary for the composer Andreas Porfetye (1927–1911)
  10. ↑ Edition Music Southeast: ESMO 4014
  11. ↑ The trauma and the phenomenon of the "group". New issue of the "Spiegelungen" published. In: General German newspaper for Romania . August 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schork, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werth, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian music teacher, university lecturer, composer and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1979
Place of death Timișoara, Socialist Republic of Romania