Peter Thomas Heydrich

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Peter Thomas Heydrich (born March 2, 1931 in Berlin as Peter Bruno Eugen Heydrich, † November 22, 2003 in Düsseldorf ) was a political cabaret artist , chansonnier and actor .

life and work

Peter Thomas Heydrich was the oldest child of SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Heydrich , who committed suicide in 1944 .

After studying acting, Heydrich worked as an actor and director in Düsseldorf and Wuppertal for a decade. As a director he staged there z. B. Arrabal and Sartre . At Cirque Royal in Brussels he was seen ninety times as Mackie Messer in Brecht's Threepenny Opera .

In 1977 Heydrich switched to cabaret and performed programs based on texts by Kästner , Heine , Wedekind , Busch , Brecht, Tucholsky , Mehring and Waldoff . With his programs, some of which are sung with piano accompaniment, and some of which are spoken, he has made guest appearances at important cabaret stages in Germany.

Heydrich's programs were partly published on records. A recording of the Ringelnatz evening on May 4, 1985 in the Senftöpfchen in Cologne was released, as was the recording of a Tucholsky evening on April 27, 1990. Audio cassettes and CDs were also released.

A book project in which Heydrich wanted to shed light on his childhood and youth as a nephew and godchild of Reinhard Heydrich was completed by his friend, the author Hans-Georg Wiedemann . Until a few years before his death, Heydrich had never made his origins an issue. I was the Crown Prince von Heydrich. A Childhood in the Shadow of the Executioner of Prague appeared in 2006.

Peter Thomas Heydrich died in 2003 after a long illness.

Honors

The Austrian cabaret artist Ernst Stankovski dedicated a matinee to the deceased cabaret artist on the day he died, which he played in the sold-out Düsseldorf Ibach hall .

Recordings

  • Poems, songs and chansons by Walter Mehring: performance on October 27, 1982 in the Zunfthaus zur Meisen, Zurich . Zurich: sn, 1982 (recitation: Gisela Zoch-Westphal ; chansons: Peter Thomas Heydrich; on the piano: Georg Corman; composition Jürgen Knieper .)
  • Peter Thomas Heydrich - a nasty Christmas program with satirical and critical texts by German writers of the 20th century . Düsseldorf, December 11, 1983 (program)
  • So that we can become wise. Psalms . With music by Holger Clausen. tvd, Düsseldorf 1992 (recording)

Autobiography

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personal data
SURNAME Heydrich, Peter Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydrich, Peter Bruno Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political cabaret artist, chansonnier and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2003
Place of death Dusseldorf