Rudolf Neuhaus

Rudolf Neuhaus (born January 3, 1914 in Cologne , † March 7, 1990 in Dresden ) was a German conductor.

Life

Rudolf Neuhaus studied at the Cologne University of Music , especially with Hermann Abendroth . From 1934 to 1944 he worked at the Landestheater Neustrelitz . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

In 1945 he came to Schwerin and worked here as a conductor until 1953, and from 1950 as the successor to Hans Gahlenbeck as general music director of the Staatskapelle Schwerin . He became a member of the CDU . He also headed the music section in the Mecklenburg State Association in the GDR Cultural Association .

In 1953 he was appointed conductor at the Dresden State Opera and lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Music . Guest conductors have taken him to the Berlin State Opera , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Berlin Municipal Symphony Orchestra . In 1959 he was appointed professor. His students include Hans-Peter Kirchberg and Udo Zimmermann .

He conducted numerous world premieres and premieres.

Awards

• 1964: Art Prize of the GDR
• 1974: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1979: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1987: Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize
• 1989: Otto Nuschke badge

Fonts

• Our hearts beat in sync . In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society . Report on the meeting of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen. [Berlin] 1974, p. 91-93 .

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7030 .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 234.

Web links

• Literature about Rudolf Neuhaus in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 234.
2. ↑ Andreas Zimmer: The cultural association in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR: An East German cultural association in the course of time between 1945 and 1990 . Springer, Berlin 2018, p. 73 f .
3. ^ Neue Zeit , June 14, 1989, p. 1