Heinz Rückert
Heinz Rückert (17 December 1904 – 14 February 1984''Personelles''. In ''Theater der Zeit'' 5/1984, .) was a German opera director. He was one of the co-founders of the Halle Georg Friedrich Handel Renaissance. Life Born in Darmstadt, Rückert grew up in a musical family and came into contact with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach at an early age. His great-grandfather was the poet Friedrich Rückert. He learned to play the piano autodidactically. After Abitur at a humanistic grammar school in Darmstadt, he studied German, art and theatre studies for three years in Munich, where Artur Kutscher was his most important teacher.Myriam Sello-Christian: ''Linked to opera and trade''. In ''Berliner Zeitung'', 21 November 1964, Vol. 20, issue 321, . Kutscher also brought him into contact with the repertoire of Handel, which experienced its renaissance in Göttingen in the 1920s. In 1927, Kutscher placed him with the director Georg Hartmann, under whom he was to become assistant dire ...
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Theater Der Zeit
''Theater der Zeit'' is a German-language monthly magazine that focuses on theatre and politics. It was established in 1946 and is now—alongside ''Theater heute''—one of the leading magazines on theatre in the German-speaking world. In 1996, the Theater der Zeit publishing house began to publish books. History Following its establishment in summer 1945, Bruno Henschel & Sohn publishers (later Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft) commissioned journalist Fritz Erpenbeck to establish a magazine on theatre. In July 1946, the first issue of ''Theater der Zeit'' appeared. Max Reinhardt was on the cover, Erpenbeck's lead article was entitled "Zeittheater oder Theater der Zeit?" ("Historical theatre or theatre of history?"). Until March 1992, the magazine appeared on a monthly basis, with short periods at the beginning of the 1950s and 1960s when it appeared fortnightly. To start with, ''Theater der Zeit'' provided information about theatre in the fledgling German Democratic Republi ...