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Hans Winterberg (23 March 1901 in Prague, Austria-Hungary — 10 March 1991 in Stepperg, Germany) was a German composer. == Life == Winterberg began music lessons at the age of nine with the concert pianist Therèse Wallerstein. He went on to study at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Prague (Composition with Fidelio F. Finke, and conducting with Alexander Zemlinsky) and at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied with Alois Hába. Gideon Klein〔Class book of Prof. Alois Hába 1937-1940, State Conservatory of music in Prague.〕 was a fellow pupil during the terms of 1939/1940. Hans Winterberg composed and worked for a good deal of time as vocal coach and repetiteur in Brno〔German stage year book 1929 p. 331〕 as well as for a number of other opera houses and ensembles. He married Maria Maschat, a Roman Catholic, on the 3rd of May 1930. The couple was divorced on the 2nd of December 1944 in accordance to the stipulations of the Third Reich Marriage Laws. Due to his classification as a Jew, he was interned in Theresienstadt Ghetto on January 26, 1945.〔Deportation record in the Jewish community of Prague〕 As Winterberg had registered as a German speaking Czech in the Czech National Census of 1929, after the end of the war on May 8. 1945 he remained interned in the same ghetto where he had previously been imprisoned as a Jew. This time, he was held as a German speaking Czech by the re-established Czech government in the small fortress of Theresienstadt, which previously had served as the prison for the Ghetto. It would be a bitter irony of fate that those persecuted and imprisoned as German speakers by the restored Czech administration also happened in many cases, to have been previously imprisoned as Jews by the III Reich. His own classification as a German speaking Czech would lead to his eventual forced emigration from his Czech homeland. He was exiled from Czechoslovakia in 1947 and emigrated to Germany. As with all German speaking Czechs, he was in possession of Czech nationality until the Nazi absorption of Czechoslovakia in 1938. As a Jew, after the establishment of the German ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, he was excluded from receiving automatic German citizenship. Due to his census status from 1930, his Czech citizenship was revoked by then president Edvard Beneš by decree on the 2 August 1945, rendering Winterberg officially stateless. His status as a German speaker and the impossibility of returning to his homeland were grounds for his subsequent refugee status.〔The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior - refugee Hans Winterberg 1950/52〕 He arrived initially in Riederau am Ammersee, before coming to Munich where he worked as an editor at Bavarian Radio and as a music pedagogue at the Richard Strauss Conservatory. He subsequently moved to Bad Tölz where he dedicated himself solely to composition. Despite his many unhappy experiences, he never gave up a belief in universality as a 'Bridge between the West (meaning the German) world and the East'.〔Thomas Stolle, Hans Winterberg, 1991〕 He saw himself as 'an artist belonging to the group of the unilaterally disadvantaged'. Winterberg was also a painter. Art and music were the two artistic elements that were to define Winterberg right from childhood. His final years were spent in Stepperg in Upper Bavaria, and he was eventually buried in Tölz, also in Upper Bavaria. Bad Tölz would be the location of his last fruitful years of musical creativity. Winterberg was a member of the Artists' Guild of Esslingen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Winterberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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