Born in 1890, Oskar Walleck was a native of
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
.
The actor and director joined the
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
and the
SS in 1932.
In 1934/35, he came to
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, where he was appointed ''Generalintendant'' of the ''Bayerisches Staatstheater''. As such, he also controlled all other Bavarian theaters.
In 1939, Walleck became ''Generalintendant'' in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
.
To stage ''Rüdiger von Bechelaren'', a play by Hans Baumann, Walleck traveled to
Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
in 1940.
Anna Rosmus
Anna Rosmus, also known as Anja Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author and researcher born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria.
Early life and research
As a 16-year-old, Rosmus started developing an interest in contemporary history, especially that of the ...
''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 254f
References
1890 births
Year of death missing
People from Brno
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