PT Journal
AU Bajgarova, J
TI Herbert Hiebsch: Musician, Writer, Bruckner Worshiper, Sudeten German and His Fate among the Czechs
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 9
EP 36
VL 31
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2020.001
DE Anton Bruckner movement; Herbert Hiebsch; national socialist cultural policy; Sudeten Germans
AB The study captures the personality and activities of Herbert Hiebsch (1905-1948), conductor, writer, music organizer, co-founder of several Bruckner societies in Bohemia, a humanitarian-educated Sudeten German from Litomerice/Leitmeritz, brought up a Catholic, who in the 1930s and during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was involved in promoting the goals of National Socialist cultural policy. It deals in more detail with Hiebsch's origin and his studies at the grammar school in Litomerice and the German Academy of Music and Drama in Prague, but also with the analysis of his novel Das gottliche Finale. Ein Buch vom Erleben Bruckners (1931), and unpublished memorial file Herbert Hiebsch - Deutsches Schicksal unter Tschechen. Ein Lebensbericht (1938). The study concludes with information about the end of his life in Baden-Wurttemberg.
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