Otto Wartisch

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Otto Alexander Hermann Wartisch (born November 18, 1893 in Magdeburg , † April 29, 1969 in Wolfratshausen ) was a German conductor , composer and member of the NSDAP .

Life

In 1930 Otto doctorate Wartisch on the studies of harmony of musical impressionism to Dr. phil. Also in 1930 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 400.618). After the National Socialists came to power, he succeeded Carl Corbach as SA standard leader from 1934 to 1939 as Kapellmeister of the court orchestra and the conductor of the Loh orchestra in Sondershausen . During the Second World War he became the director of the Katowice Opera House as SA Oberführer . Wartisch organized in cooperation with the Auschwitz concentration camp "troop entertainment events" for the local concentration camp personnel, it was on April 5, 1943 Schwank Gitta has a bird and the farce on 2 October 1943 Troubled wedding night listed. Music evenings were held on the themes of lively music and musical delicacies from opera and operetta . Wartisch dedicated the composition Deutsche Rhapsodie to the publisher of the anti-Semitic agitation paper Der Stürmer Julius Streicher . He then became concert conductor in Munich, and in 1951 his work Scharlott goes to heaven was premiered in Bremen.

Works

  • Caucasian Comedy opera in one act, in the March 8, 1933 Nuremberg premiered
  • Fair ballad of cheerful radio opera broadcast on October 28, 1954

literature

  • John London: Theater Under the Nazis . Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 (English)
  • Michael H. Kater: The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich . Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-513242-4 (English)
  • Stieger: Opera Lexicon . II: composers . Dr. Hans Schneider Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-7952-0228-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the 2nd section Literature on the piano works of Claude Debussy ( Memento of the original of May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jochenscheytt.de
  2. ^ A b 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 , p. 645.
  3. ↑ Ronald Uhlig: 125 years of music school in Sondershausen - From the Princely Conservatory to the “Carl Schroeder” district music school  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kyffhaeuser.de  
  4. ^ Happy hours in Auschwitz . ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Zeit , No. 5/2007, p. 90 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  5. ^ Opera on TV
personal data
SURNAME Waiting, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wartisch, Otto Alexander Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and NSDAP member
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1969
Place of death Wolfratshausen