Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse

Rainer Christoph Friedrich Prince of Hesse (born November 18, 1939 in Kronberg im Taunus ) is a German historian and director.

family

Rainer von Hessen is the son of Christoph von Hessen , who died in a plane crash in 1943, and Sophie of Greece (1914–2001), daughter of Andreas of Greece (1882–1944), and a grandson of Friedrich Karl von Hessen . He is also the nephew of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and thus cousin of Prince Charles , Princess Anne , Prince Andrew and Prince Edward .

Director

He received his training as an assistant director from 1960 with Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and with August Everding at the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1962 he worked as a director at the Ulm Theater and from 1966 at the Kassel State Theater . Here he staged Lysistrata by Aristophanes in collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle . This resulted in other projects, including the sculpture house ensemble by Le Rêve de l'Oiseau in Plan-de-la-Tour , in the Var department , which has been protected as a French national cultural heritage ( Patrimoine national ) since 2007 .

historian

As a historian, he has made a name for himself in the history of his own family , especially through historical source editions . He also sponsored the work of Jonathan Petropoulos , Royals and the Reich , in which the involvement of the House of Hesse in the Third Reich is analyzed. Rainer von Hessen has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 1993 .

Others

Rainer von Hessen is a board member of the Hessian House Foundation . He lived for a long time near Paris , today in Wolfsgarten Castle near Darmstadt .

List of works

• Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (as Elector Wilhelm I) of Hessen-Kassel (1743–1821) and the soldiers' trade in the County of Hanau . In: Fürstenhof and scholarly republic. Hessian résumés of the 18th century (= small writings on Hessian regional studies , 5). Edited by the Hessian State Center for Political Education , [Wiesbaden 1996], pp. 42–52.
• Landgrave Carl von Hessen 1744–1836. Schleswig-Holstein State Archives. 1997. (co-author)
• Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich (1840–1901) - Mission and Fate of an English Princess in Germany . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York. 1st edition 2002; 2nd edition 2007.
• The Hessens. Story of a European family . Eichenzell 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0342-0 .

Editing

• Wolfgang Prince of Hesse: Records . Private printing. Kronberg 1986.
• We Wilhelm by the grace of God. The memoirs of Elector Wilhelm I of Hesse 1743–1821 . Translated from the French by Rainer von Hessen. A publication of the archive of the Hessian House Foundation in connection with the Historical Commission for Hesse . Campus, Frankfurt a. Main, New York 1996.

literature

• Eckhart G. Franz : House of Hesse. Biographical lexicon (= work of the historical commission , NF 34). Darmstadt 2012. ISBN 978-388443-411-6 , p. 193 f.
• Regine Seipel: Entangled Princes . In: Frankfurter Rundschau v. April 21, 2016, local section Frankfurt, p. F8f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation of Le Rève de l'Oiseau on the French list of cultural monuments (in French) ( Memento of the original of February 23, 2015 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. . 
2. ↑ Jonathan Petropoulos: Royals and the Reich . Oxford 2009.
3. ↑ Seipel, Entangled Princes .