Wolfram Humperdinck

Wolfram Humperdinck (born April 29, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 16, 1985 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German director and general manager .

Life

Wolfram Humperdinck, only son of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck and his wife Hedwig (* 1862, † 1916) was born Taxer, godson of Cosima Wagner , finished after high school , first studying painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin before he moved to the HMT Leipzig , where he studied music and directing.

In 1921 Wolfram Humperdinck received the position of opera director at the Landestheater in Neustrelitz . His father died here in the same year after he had attended the rehearsals at the local theater and the premiere of the Freischütz he staged as a result of a stroke. After further positions as opera director at the National Theater Weimar , at the Landestheater Oldenburg , at the Stadttheater Hagen , at the Städtische Bühnen Wuppertal and at the Königsberg Opera House, in 1933 he took over the positions of senior director, dramaturge and deputy artistic director at the Leipzig Opera .

In 1941 Wolfram Humperdinck was elected to succeed Hanns Schulz-Dornburg as artistic director of the Städtische Bühnen in Kiel . After the end of the war, in the summer of 1945, Lord Mayor Dr. Dismissed Max Emcke . He then went to the Landestheater in Siegburg as a drama teacher and director , most recently from 1952 to 1959 as senior director at the Landestheater Detmold and as a lecturer in the subjects of dramaturgy and opera directing at the Northwest German Music Academy there .

Wolfram Humperdinck, who took over the archive business at the Siegburg Humperdinck Museum after 1945, also performed guest engagements in Vienna , New York , Bayreuth , Berlin , Paris and in 1960 in Tokyo . Wolfram Humperdinck came out particularly with stagings of Wagner operas .

Wolfram Humperdinck was married to Gabriele (* 1901, † 1984) born Meißner from 1922, with whom he had three children. The daughter Eva (* 1925, later also sister Maria Evamaris) did her doctorate in musicology and published the catalog raisonné and part of her grandfather's correspondence. Humperdinck died in Bad Neuenahr in 1985 just before the age of 92.

publication

• Engelbert Humperdinck: The life of my father, Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1965

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 549.
• Ole Hruschka: "Hold on to what was left of everything": 100 years of Theater am Kleinen Kiel, Ludwig, Kiel, 2007 ISBN 3-9377-1962-8 , pp. 53, 54.
• Engelbert Humperdinck, Eva Humperdinck (eds.): The unknown Engelbert Humperdinck in the mirror of the correspondence with his fellow guilds: 1884-1893, in: Volume 1 of The unknown Engelbert Humperdinck in the mirror of the correspondence with his guild fellows: Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Strauss , 2004 ISBN 3-9019-7402-4 . P. 255.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Humperdinck in the catalog of the German National Library