Winfried Höntsch

Winfried Höntsch (born June 9, 1930 in Dresden ) is a German musicologist and artistic director .

Life

After graduating from high school, Winfried Höntsch studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin . From 1956 he worked in the music department in the Ministry of Culture in Berlin. In 1962 he became the first dramaturge at the Dresden State Theater . In 1968 he took over the artistic direction of the Kulturpalast Dresden . From 1970 to 1976 he worked in the section for philosophy and cultural studies at the Technical University of Dresden and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1976 to 1991 he was director of the Dresden Music Festival .

Awards

• 1975: Hanns Eisler Prize

Fonts (selection)

• ed .: Hanns Eisler. A selection of speeches and essays . 2nd edition, Reclam, Leipzig 1961.
• Richard Strauss award from the Dresden State Theater. On the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. 7-21 June 1964 . State Theater, Dresden 1964.
• with Ursula Püschel : 300 years of the Dresden State Theater . Henschel, Berlin 1967.
• ed. with Horst Seeger : Sounding Dresden. The Dresden Music Festival in its first decade . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-370-00261-2 .
• Opera metropolis Dresden. From the Festa Teatrale to the modern musical drama. A contribution to the history and iconography of Dresden's opera culture . Verlag der Kunst, Huseum 2004, ISBN 3-86530-025-1 .

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1996, p. 670.