Walter Heidrich (General Manager)
Walter Heidrich (born August 3, 1905 in Gablonz ; † January 29, 1989 in Aumühle near Hamburg ) was a German actor and artistic director .
Life
Born in Bohemia , Walter Heidrich completed his training as an actor in Dresden with K. Wolf and Bruno Decarli . After his debut in Reichenberg , Heidrich received his first engagements in Meißen and Guben .
From 1932 to 1936 Walter Heidrich was in charge of the Sudetenbühne , about which he published his "[...] report on 2½ years of work" in 1936 via the Sudetendeutschen Verlag .
At the time of National Socialism , Heidrich took over the management of the State Theater of Saxony from 1937 to 1939 . During the Second World War Heidrich served temporarily as a soldier , but was released from active military service in 1942 and 1944 in order to take over the management in Reichenberg at the place of his debut.
After the war, Walter Heidrich came to Hanover , where, with the approval of the British occupiers, he began building a “ state stage ” as early as 1946 . Initially as a small private company, Heidrich founded the "Landesbühne Niedersachsen Süd" in 1952, which he headed from the beginning and under the new name Landesbühne Hannover until 1964. The ensemble gave its first performance on October 7, 1952 in the Haus der Jugend with Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe . After the first financial support from the state of Lower Saxony , Heidrich initiated the first guest performance in the Herrenhausen Gardens in 1953 . In 1956 Reinhold Rüdiger was hired, who succeeded Heidrich as director from 1964.
After his activities in Hanover, Walter Heidrich headed the Theater Lübeck from 1964 to 1968 and later also worked in Hamburg .
Fonts
- Walter Heidrich: The Sudeten stage: A report on 2 1/2 years of work. Book design by Rudolf Karasek . Sudeten German publisher Franz Kraus , Reichenberg 1936.
Media coverage
- a-th: HANNOVER (Herrenhausen Hedge Theater): Kleist's “ Prince Friedrich von Homburg ”. In: Die Zeit of July 27, 1962 ( online )
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 262f.
- Hugo Thielen : HEIDRICH, Walter. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 158 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Hugo Thielen: Heidrich, Walter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 279.
Web links
- Walter Heidrich in the Karl May Wiki
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: HEIDRICH, Walter (see literature)
- ↑ Compare the information in WorldCat
- ^ A b Evelyn Beyer: The theater for Lower Saxony is celebrating 60 years of the Landesbühne on the weekend in the Aegi. In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] of October 19, 2012 ( online , last accessed on August 3, 2014).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heidrich, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gablonz |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1989 |
| Place of death | Aumühle |