!!!Hilbert, Egon

b. Vienna, May 19, 1899, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 18, 1968, theatre manager and artistic director. 1934 
in the Federal Chancellery, 1935 press attache in Prague, 1938-1945 in 
Dachau concentration camp; 1945 provisional director of the Salzburg 
Landestheater, 1946-1953 head of the Federal Theatre Administration, 
1954-1959 head of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome, 1959-1963 
artistic director of the Vienna Festival (tried to achieve the 
re-opening of the Theater an der Wien); from 1963 at the Vienna State 
Opera, 1963/64 co-director with H. v.  Karajan, and 1964-1968 
director of the Vienna State Opera, many awards, Officer of the 
Academie Française.



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