Egon Hilbert

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Egon Hilbert (19 May 1899 – 18 January 1968) was a Austrian opera- theatre director.

[edit] Biography

Hilbert was born in Vienna, Austria where he would later study law and philosophy at the Universität Wien.

In 1938 he was arrested by the Nazis and interned at Dachau concentration camp. In 1945 he was made provisional director of the Salzburger Landestheaters and attempted a reorganisation of the Salzburg Festival. From 1946 to 1953 he was chief of the Austrian Kulturinstituts. From 1959 he was general director of the Vienna Festival and from 1963 until his death in he was the director of the Vienna State Opera.

[edit] Honours and awards

• Officier of the Académie française
• Goldene Ehrenmedaille der Stadt Wien

[edit] External links

• Egon Hilbert in the Aeiou Encyclopedia
• Egon Hilbert und der Iffland-Ring
• Wiener Staatsoper

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