Gotthard Kronstein

Gotthard Kronstein (14 January 1927 – 2 June 1997) was a German operatic baritone and theatre director.

Life Born in Kotzenau, Kronstein attended the elementary and in Glogau on the Oder and during the Second World War, he attended a special matriculation course in Königsberg. As a youth, he was still obliged to join the Wehrmacht in 1945 and ended up in war captivity.

Not even an adult, Kronstein came into the Luftangriffe 48 percent war-destroyed Hanover, where he was employed from 1946 to 1947 by the Hannover employment office as clerk for youth issues.

From 1947 to 1949, he assumed the chairmanship of the "Club junger Menschen" initiated by Theanolte Bähnisch and the "Clubs junger Menschen". At the same time, Kronstein was able to begin his studies in 1947, first in economics, law and psychology at the Technische Hochschule Hannover, then in stage law and theatre management at the University of Cologne. He received his diploma in business administration in 1956. Kronstein was awarded several prizes for vocal performances parallel to his studies, in Munich, in the Italian city of Vercelli and - with the first prize as baritone - in 1956 in Verviers, Belgium. Until 1968, he had engagements as a singer in Basel, Braunschweig and Essen. Leuenhagen und Paris, Hannover 2006, Hugo Thielen: Kronstein, Gotthard. In Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: . Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002,. Hugo Thielen: Kronstein, Gotthard. In Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, , p. 372f.