Rudolf Heinrich

'''Rudolf Heinrich''' (10 February 1926 – 1 December 1975) was a German stage designer.

== Life and career == Born in Halle (Saale), Heinrich attended the painting class of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle from 1946 to 1948 with Charles Crodel, Max Elten and others. Afterwards, he was assistant stage designer in Leipzig in 1948.

From 1950 to 1959, he worked at the Landestheater Halle as the head of the equipment department. He created stage sets for 33 plays in opera, ballet and drama. In 1957, he received the Handel Prize in Halle for sets for Handel's operas (''Ezio'', ''Radamisto'', ''Poro'' and others). In 1959, he won the 1st prize of the Théatre National de l'Odéon in Paris for ''The Tales of Hoffmann''.<ref>[https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/5385 Rudolf-Heinrich-Sammlung] in the archives of the Academy of Arts, Berlin</ref>

For the opening of the new Leipzig Opera, he created the décor for ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' in 1960. In the same year, he worked with Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he set Verdi's opera ''Otello'', and was awarded the National Prize of the GDR.

In 1961, he was appointed to the Academy of Arts, Berlin, but moved to West Germany. From 1962, he worked in Munich with Fritz Kortner, Günther Rennert, Joachim Herz, Otto Schenk among others.

Heinrich became head of the stage design class at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 1964. From that year, he was professor of the stage design class at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He worked mainly for the opera houses in Munich, Hamburg, Schwetzingen, Mannheim, Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Santa Fee, Paris, Moscow, Leipzig, Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Zurich and London, as well as the Austrian Theatre Museum in (Vienna).

From 1973 to 1975, he created the set for ''The Ring of the Nibelung'' in Leipzig with Joachim Herz. He was appointed to the Academy of Arts in West Berlin in 1973.<ref>[https://www.staatsoper.de/biographien/detail-seite/heinrich-rudolf.html Rudolf Heinrich] on the Website of the Bayerischen Staatsoper</ref>

Heinrich died in London on 1 December 1975 at the age of 49, while working on the set design for ''Salomé''. His burial place is on the Ramersdorf-Perlach in Munich. He was married to the US-American soprano Joan Carroll<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150501145133/http://der-neue-merker.eu/geburtstage-im-juli-2012 "GEBURTSTAGE IM JULI 2012: Joan CARROLL wird 80"], Vienna State Opera</ref> and had a son. His brother was the costume and stage designer Reinhard Heinrich.

The Akademie der Künste Berlin has a Rudolf Heinrich collection with about 3000 works by hm.<ref>[http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivbestand/darstellende-kunst/index.htm?hg=darstell&we_objectID=1057 ''Archiv Darstellende Kunst: Rudolf Heinrich Sammlung''], Akademie der Künste Berlin, retrieved 2 September 2020</ref>

== Filmography == * 1967: ''Liebe für Liebe'' (tele film) * 1974: ''Maß für Maß'' (telefilm)

== Further reading == * Oskar Pausch (ed.): ''Heinrich 2. Die Bühnenkünstler Rudolf und Reinhard Heinrich.''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174277546 ''Heinrich 2 : die Bühnenkünstler Rudolf und Reinhard Heinrich''] on WorldCat</ref> Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1995, {{ISBN|3-205-98498-6}}.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{DNB portal|119308533}} * {{IMDb name|1314583|Rudolf Heinrich}}

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