Erich Steinhard

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Erich Steinhard ( May 26, 1886 in Prague , Austria-Hungary - after October 26, 1941 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto ) was a German-Bohemian journalist , music critic and book author who was murdered in the Holocaust with his wife Gertrude because of their Jewish origins .

life and work

Steinhard was the son of a factory director in Prague and studied law briefly at the German University in Prague after taking music lessons with Josef Bohuslav Foerster , Vítež Novák and Karel Knittl . Then he enrolled with Heinrich Rietsch in musicology . After studying in Berlin, he wrote his dissertation and received his doctorate in philosophy in Prague in 1911.

In 1920 he took over the editor-in-chief of the Prague journal Der Auftakt from the Prague composer and music critic Felix Adler , in which he published more than 120 articles before it was discontinued in spring 1938. In the beginning he reported not only on musical life in Czechoslovakia , but also on significant events in Germany. From 1921 he worked in the music department of the university library at Charles University . He also taught aesthetics and music history at the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague , which he helped initiate . In 1925 he took over - according to with Max Brod - the music and theater lecture in the Prager Tagblatt , which was previously headed by Ernst Rychnovsky. In 1928 he was appointed professor.

In the inter-war period, Steinhard was considered to be “the most important and most sharply profiled personality of German music criticism in Czechoslovakia.” He was active in numerous functions and institutions on an honorary basis or organizationally. From 1920 he was a member of the State Examination Board for Music. In 1922 he represented the German group of the Czechoslovak Section in founding the International Society for New Music (IGNM). In 1923 he co-founded the music section of the literary-artistic publishing house in Prague. From 1927 he became a committee member for the acquisition of the Vila Betramka , famous for Mozart's stay before the Don Giovanni premiere in Prague. In 1935, despite great difficulties, he organized the IGNM's Prague Music Festival together with the Czech quarter-tone composer Alois Hába . As early as 1938, the “Music Pedagogical Association” decided not to allow Steinhard's translation of Gracian Černušák's “Music History” to be used as a study aid , to discontinue the beginning and to replace it with Gustav Becker's music sheets for the Sudeten Germans .

On October 26, 1941 he was born with his wife Gertrude Steinhard, geb. on March 5, 1897 as Gertrude Mühlstein, deported with Transport C to the Litzmannstadt ghetto , where he was murdered at an unknown date. His transport number was 533, his wife's 534. Of the 1,000 deportees on transport C, only 65 survived. Steinhard's wife was murdered on February 28, 1942 by the Nazi regime.

Publications (selection)

  • An old German-Bohemian sound artist. About Florian Leopold Gassmann . In: German work. Monthly for the intellectual life of Germans in Bohemia . Volume VII, September 1908, Issue 12, pp. 745–750.
  • For the 300th birthday of the German-Bohemian musician Andreas Hammerschmidt . Verl. D. Association for dissemination charitable. Knowledge, Prague 1914.
  • Together with Vladimír Helfert : Music in the Czechoslovak Republic . Orbis Verlag, Prague 1936 and 1938 (2nd partially changed edition with pictures and bibliograms)
  • Mahler a Praha. Gustav Mahler in Prague. For the 110th return of his work in Prague 1885/1886. Ustav pro hudebni vedu Akademie ved CR, Praha 1996 (German and Czech).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Thrun: "... a decomposition of the folk song in bursts and flashes of tones". In: Michael Fischer, Wolfgang Jansen, Tobias Widmaier (eds.): Song and popular culture - Song and Popular Culture: Yearbook of the German Folk Song Archive Freiburg. Volume 58 - 2013, pp. 209–240 ( limited preview in Google Book Search, accessed on September 14, 2016). It mentions a contribution by Steinhard about new music in Donaueschingen from 1922.
  2. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon: Steinhard, Erich (1886 – after October 16, 1941 (perished)), journalist , accessed on September 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Mozartova above v České republice (Mozart community in the Czech Republic): 80 years of the Mozart community in the Czech Republic , accessed on September 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thorsten Fuchs:  Finke, Fidelio F . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0 , Sp. 1193–1197, here Sp. 1194 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  5. ↑ holocaust.cz: Dr. Erich Steinhard , entry in the victim database, accessed on September 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ holocaust.cz: Gertruda Steinhardová , entry in the victim database, accessed on September 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Steinhard, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech music critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH after October 26, 1941
Place of death uncertain: Litzmannstadt