Otto Frickhoeffer

Otto Frickhoeffer (born March 29, 1892 in Bad Schwalbach ; † April 9, 1968 there ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

As the son of a medical council, Frickhoeffer wanted to become a musician. Since his father insisted on studying medicine, Frickhoeffer enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the summer semester of 1911 he became active in the Corps Brunsviga Munich . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Only after he had passed the Physikum there did his parents agree to a career as a pianist. The First World War interrupted the hopeful beginning. Not fully operational for service on the war front , he was used during his medical training to look after the transport of the wounded. When the war ended, the hands were no longer suitable for playing the piano. The study of composition and conducting offered a way out . From 1918 Frickhoeffer lived as a singing teacher and composer in Berlin.

Ernst Klee cites as information about Frickhoeffer from the National Socialist reference work Das Deutsche Führerlexikon that he had been politically active in the Pan-German Association and the Resident Army after the First World War and was later a member of the NSDAP . In addition, he was the department head of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (KfdK). In 1933 he took part in the festival Das Junge Deutschland in der Musik , organized by the Kampfbund for German Culture in Bad Pyrmont. From 1934 to 1936 he worked as a conductor for the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft . The NSDAP sent him to the Reich broadcaster in Frankfurt as a special musical representative. After the synchronization he should support the political course by radio music. Works by German composers - Bach , Beethoven , Brahms , Bruckner and Wagner - were requested . At the end of 1937 he became first conductor of the Frankfurter Rundfunk-Symphonie-Orchester . Then he followed Hans Rosbaud as chief conductor and head of the music department of the station, from which the Hessischer Rundfunk emerged in 1945 . In the post-war period in Germany marginalized and always not robust, he had to endure difficult years. Paralyzed by a stroke , he was bedridden from 1960. He died shortly after his 76th birthday in a Schwalbach retirement home.

literature

• 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

• Literature by and about Otto Frickhoeffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 105/181.
2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 149.
3. ^ Stohn: In memoriam Otto Frickhoeffer . Braunschweiger Zeitung, Volume 5, No. 2 from June 1968, p. 2