Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt ( born 1 November 1901 in Strasbourg; † August 15, 1988 in Berlin) was a German musicologist and music critic.
Biography
Hailing from a family of officers Stuckenschmidt wrote already with 19 years as Berlin correspondent music reviews for the Prague Bohemia magazine, then worked as a freelance music writer in Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Prague, sat down early for avant-garde music and learned many composers and performers personally. In the summer of 1920 he took part in the First International Dada Fair. 1923/1924, he led with Josef Rufer the concert series New Music in Hamburg, lived in Vienna in 1924 and in Paris in 1925, where he became acquainted with the composers of Les Six. 1927/1928, he organized the concerts of the Berliner November Group, 1929, he was the successor to Adolf Weissmann as a music critic for the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag. Many of his essays appeared in the dawn. Stuckenschmidt had been also ambitions for the composition of the six short piano pieces he wrote 1919-1926, however, are only two printed in remote journals. He dealt since his participation in Arnold Schoenberg's analysis seminars 1931-1933 the life and work of the composer and evaluated as first his estate for a biography of ( Arnold Schoenberg, 1951, 1957, 1974). He wrote, among other books on Boris Blacher, Ferruccio Busoni and Maurice Ravel.
Because of its commitment to new music and Jewish musicians 1934 - after accusations of Fritz Stege - with prohibition on writing is, based on " mostly baseless allegations ( " lack of moral maturity " ) to the exclusion from the Reich Press Chamber and thus to the prohibition on writing [ leader ]. The Nazi Fritz bridges had opened in 1933, the witch hunt and put all his connections to Nazi organizations to eliminate Stuckenschmidt (and other advocates of new music ). Rarely all, there is the opportunity to repeat such a driven to lie, denunciation and conviction judgments process in detail. Oppressive is the dimension of such arbitrary rule - which not only lead to existential questions, but also affect family members. 1934 Stuckenschmidt was expelled from the Reich Association of the German press. "
1937 emigrated Stuckenschmidt to Prague, where he first for the crew newspaper wrote The Last Day for the Prager Tageblatt and 1939-1942. In 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as an interpreter and in 1946 released from American captivity.
After the war was Stuckenschmidt Head of contemporary music at the station RIAS Berlin, in 1947 music critic of the Neue Zeitung, was from 1947 to 1949 with Josef Rufer the magazine and was cast out since 1948 lecturer, associate and full professor from 1953 to 1967 since 1949 in music history at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1956 to 1987 he was a music critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Stuckenschmidt has received numerous awards for his work, he was, inter alia, a member of the PEN Club and the German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt. In 1974 he became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (West ), 1977 awarded him an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen.
Stuckenschmidt was buried in the cemetery Wilmersdorf.