Heinz Tietjen

Heinz Tietjen (24 June 1881 – 30 November 1967) was a German conductor and music producer born in Tangier, Morocco.

[1] At age twenty-three, he held the producer position at the Opera House in Trier and was appointed its director in 1907, holding dual roles until 1922.

[2] From 1931 to 1944, Tietjen served as artistic director at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus for Winifred Wagner with whom he had a romantic liaison.

[4] In his capacity as director of the Prussian State Theatre, Tietjen approved the closure of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, which the Nazis had criticized as a cultural institution of "Reds and Jews".

[2] In 1948 he returned to the directorship of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, serving until 1954, when he was appointed manager and artistic director of the new Hamburg State Opera, a job he held until 1959.