Otto Wartisch

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Otto Alexander Hermann Wartisch (18 November 1893 – 29 April 1969) was a German composer, conductor and member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

Life[]

Born in Magdeburg, Wartisch received his doctorate on Studien zur Harmonik des musikalischen Impressionismus.[1] Also in 1930, he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 400.618).[2] After the Nazi takeover, he became SA-Standartenführer successor to from 1934 to 1939 as Kapellmeister of the Hofkapelle and the conductors of the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen. During the Second World War, he became the SA-Oberführer Intendant of the Katowice opera house. Wartisch organised, in cooperation with the Auschwitz concentration camp, "troop support events" for the concentration camp personnel there, so on 5 April 1943, the farce Gitta hat einen Vogel and on 2 October 1943, the farce Gestörte Hochzeitsnacht were performed.[2] Musical evenings were held on the themes of Upbeat Music and Musical Delicacies of Opera and Operetta. Wartisch dedicated the composition Deutsche Rhapsodie to Julius Streicher, the publisher of the anti-Semitic diatribe Der Stürmer. He then became a concert conductor in Munich, and in 1951 his work Scharlott fährt gen Himmel was premiered in Bremen.[3]

Wartisch died in Wolfratshausen at age 75.

Work[]

  • Kaukasische Komödie One-act opera, premiered 8 March 1933 in Nuremberg
  • Jahrmarktsballade heitere Funkoper 28 October 1954 gesendet.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Postcard of Otto Wartisch on Alamy
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S.Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 645.
  3. ^ Wartisch, Otto on Digitals Archiv
  4. ^ Oper im Fernsehen

Further reading[]

  • John London: Theatre Under the Nazis. Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 (English)
  • Michael H. Kater: The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-513242-4 (English)
  • Stieger: Opernlexikon. II: Komponisten. Dr. Hans Schneider Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-7952-0228-0
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