Andreas Meyer-Hanno

Andreas Meyer-Hanno.

Andreas Meyer-Hanno (18 February 1932 – 7 September 2006) was a German theater and opera director.

Biography

Meyer-Hanno was born in Berlin. His parents were Hans Meyer-Hanno and Irene Sager. Since 1949 Meyer-Hanno studied music and theater. After university studies he worked between 1956 to 1964 at the opera of Wuppertal, where he became 1959 opera director. From 1964 to 1972 he worked as opera director in Karlsruhe at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then from 1972 to 1976 in Braunschweig at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. In 1980 he co-founded the LGBT organisation Homosexuelle Selbsthilfe (homosexual's self-help).

Meyer-Hanno became professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main in 1976. He retired as professor in 1993. From 1989 to 1993 he helped to built the Frankfurter Engel in Frankfurt. ^[1]

Meyer-Hanno died in Frankfurt. He was buried in the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof cemetery in Berlin.

Honors

• Römer-Plakette of city Frankfurt am Main, 1993
• Price Rosa Courage in Osnabrück
• Bundesverdienstkreuz, 2000

References

1. ^ Frankfurter Engel (German)

External links

• Andreas Meyer-Hanno in German National Library
• Meyer-Hanno-Stiftung (German)
• Andreas Meyer-Hanno in Internet Movie Database
• Whk: Death of Meyer-Hanno (German)

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Name	Meyer-Hanno, Andreas
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Date of birth	18 February 1932
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Date of death	7 September 2006
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