Max von Millenkovich
Max von Millenkovich (pseud. Max Morold) (born March 2, 1866 in Vienna ; † February 5, 1945 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian music writer and from 1917 to 1918 director of the kk Hofburgtheater (Wiener Burgtheater ).
Life
Max von Millenkovich was the son of the writer Stephan von Millenkovich and the brother of Benno von Millenkovich . He worked as an official in the Ministry of Art and as a writer under the pseudonym Max Morold. In 1917 he was appointed director of the kk Hofburgtheater as the successor to Hugo Thimig .
The engagement of the popular actor Alexander Girardi at the Burgtheater is worth mentioning from his short time as director . In 1918 he performed with Girardi as Fortunatus Wurzel for the first time at Ferdinand Raimund's castle on Der Bauer als Millionär . Emperor Karl I had given the Burgtheater a special cultural role in his desire for cohesion in the multi-ethnic state. The German nationalist Millenkovich was therefore deposed.
From 1930 Millenkovich was the Viennese correspondent for the Völkischer Beobachter . In 1931 he became a board member in the nationally -minded, anti-Semitic Kampfbund for German culture , head of Austria. According to his own admission, he had been a member of the Austrian NSDAP since 1932 . After the party ban in 1933, he became a member of the Reich Association of German Writers . In the period up to 1938 he wrote a work about Cosima Wagner . After the Nazis invaded Austria, he published the books Richard Wagner in Vienna and Dreigestirn ( Wagner - Liszt - Bülow ) . In 1941 he published his memoirs under the title Vom Abend bis zum Morgen , in which he described Adolf Hitler as "the embodiment of what we ourselves, between premonition and knowledge, longed for and strived for". In the same year he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .
He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 15H, Row 2, Number 27).
Works (selection)
- Max Morold: Anton Bruckner. Leipzig 1912 (2nd edition 1920), online
Awards and honors
literature
- Max von Millenkovich-Morold: Epilogue to Ferdinand von Saar , Mr. Fridolin and his luck . Reclams Universal Library 7583, Leipzig 1944, pp. 64–79.
- Max von Millenkovich-Morold: From evening to morning. From old Austria to the new Germany , Mein Weg als Österreichischer Staatsbeamter and German writer, Reclam Leipzig 1940.
- Dembski, Ulrike: From Castle and Opera, The Houses on the Ring from their opening to 1955 ' . ISBN 3-85498-394-8
Web links
- Entry on Max von Millenkovich in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Literature by and about Max von Millenkovich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Max von Millenkovich in the Gutenberg-DE project
- B. Sting: Millenkovich, Max von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 301.
- The new director of the Hofburgtheater . In: Deutsches Volksblatt. Morning edition , Vienna, April 11, 1917, No. 10155, p. 7
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 4.633–4.634.
- ↑ 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, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 411.
- ↑ Millenkovich interprets the text incorrectly and against the time in the National Socialist sense
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Millenkovich, Max von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morold, Max (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and director of the kk Hofburgtheater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Baden (Lower Austria) |