Robert Heger

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Robert Heger as opera director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1945

Robert Heger (born August 19, 1886 in Strasbourg , German Empire , † January 14, 1978 in Munich ) was a German conductor , composer and university professor .

Life

After studying music in Strasbourg, Zurich and Munich (with Max von Schillings ), Robert Heger started out as a cellist. His career as an opera conductor began in 1907 in his native Strasbourg. Further stations were Ulm (1908), Barmen (1909) and the Vienna Volksoper (1911). In 1913, Heger went to the Nuremberg Opera House as boss , where he also directed the Philharmonic Concerts. In 1920 he became 1st Kapellmeister at the National Theater in Munich . In 1925, Franz Schalk brought him to the Vienna State Opera , where he worked as Kapellmeister for eight years . In 1927 he conducted The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival . On November 10, 1932, his opera “The Beggar Nameless” had its first performance at the Vienna State Opera, with Max Lorenz and Viorica Ursuleac in the leading roles. At the same time he held the position of concert director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

Career in the Nazi state

In 1933 Heger was hired as a permanent conductor at the Berlin Linden Opera . In 1936 his opera "The Prodigal Son" premiered, which he expressed with the words: "The theme seeks to show, man that can not be solved can from the country and the people that it gave birth to." Occurred in 1937, he in the NSDAP a . In February he appeared in occupied Krakow as the “bearer of the German cultural will in the east”. On April 5, 1942, he acted as a guest conductor of the newly founded Stadttheater Thorn, opened as “proof of the cultural will of the regained German East”. In the final phase of the Second World War , he was included in the list of the most important conductors, approved by Adolf Hitler , in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front .

Career in post-war Germany

Robert Heger continued his career unscathed after the Second World War. In 1945 he was committed to the Städtische Oper Berlin . In 1950 he returned to Munich as 1st Staatskapellmeister, where he was president of the University of Music and Theater until 1954 .

Robert Heger left behind an extensive compositional oeuvre, including several operas, three symphonies, instrumental concerts, choral works, songs and chamber music works.

His final resting place is in the Munich North Cemetery (M-li-277)

Awards

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  • Riemann Music Lexicon, B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959
  • 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 .
  • Fred Prieberg: Music in the Nazi State . Fischer TB, ISBN 3-5962-6901-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 228.
  2. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb : Loyal to the Führer and God-Grace. Artist elite in the Third Reich , Österreichischer Bundesverlag Vienna 1991

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personal data
SURNAME Heger, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1978
Place of death Munich