Paul Wolz

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Paul Wolz (born October 13, 1894 in Würzburg , † May 4, 1965 in Munich ) was a German theater director and director .

Life

Paul Wolz came from Würzburg, where he and his parents ran the Huttensäle in Virchowstrasse, which were known at the time . Accordingly, he saw himself more as an entertainer.

In 1932 he and a colleague, the theater director Otto Reimann , founded Wolz & Reimann GmbH , which from 1932 to 1936 leased the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich from the owner, the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund, and operated it exclusively as an operetta theater .

He then took over from 1936 as the successor to Hans Gruß, who had fallen out of favor with the National Socialists, at the German Theater in Munich , where he offered entertaining revues and vaudeville shows in the basically unchanged schedule of his predecessor - especially during the Second World War . On March 9, 1943, the theater, which had been rebuilt in 1939 at Hitler's request , was destroyed by a bomb attack. In the prewar period, Wolz was also the carnival prince of the Munich carnival society Narrhalla , which holds its meetings in the theater.

After the war he led in April to reopen on December 21, 1951 continues to be the German theater that since 1949 only partially by the brothers Ludwig Reiber (his daughter Carolin Reiber ) and Willy Reiber had been rebuilt, purely as a private theater ( "Dreamland der Revue ” ), which was supposed to do without subsidies, and headed it until his death in 1965. Kurt Plapperer was his successor .

Wolz is credited with the quote that it is much easier " to find ten Hamlets than a single girl who can decently walk down a staircase" .

Wolz died of a heart condition on May 4, 1965. He is buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof (grave site 072-1-9).

Publications

  • Festschrift on the occasion of the reopening of the newly built and renovated (hut) halls (30 years), Würzburg October 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tobias Müller: Franconian homeland and poetry. Nikolaus Fey. In: Kurt Illing (Ed.): In the footsteps of the poets in Würzburg. Self-published (print: Max Schimmel Verlag), Würzburg 1992, pp. 91-101; here: p. 99 (“Hutten-Säle”).
  2. ^ Klaus Kieser: The Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich 1932-1944. On the Operetta in National Socialism , European University Papers , Volume 43, Verlag Peter Lang, 1991, ISBN 3631435673 and ISBN 9783631435670 , chap. IV: The Gärtnerplatztheater 1932-36 - The Paul Wolz management ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Thomas Eicher, Barbara Panse, Henning Rischbieter: Theater in the "Third Reich" , Verlag Kallmeyer, 2000, ISBN 3780001179, respectively. ISBN 9783780001177 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ The story of the Narrhalla ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.narrhalla.de
  5. ↑ Upper Bavarian Archives , Volume 109, Part 2, Historischer Verein von Oberbayern (Ed.), 1984, page 166 ( excerpt )
  6. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner, Jürgen Schläder: Münchner Theatergeschichtliches Symposium 2000 , 2000, page 218 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 74, Deutscher Bühnenverein (Ed.), Verlag FA Günther & Sohn, 1966, page 119 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Wolz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1965
Place of death Munich