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Herbert Graf (10 April 1903 – 5 April 1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873–1958), and Olga Hönig. His father was an Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Sigmund Freud's circle of friends.
Apr 7, 1973 · GENEVA, April 6—Herbert Graf, former stage director of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, died here yesterday of cancer. He would have been 70 on Tuesday. Fled Nazis in 1934.
Herbert Graf, otherwise known as “Little Hans,” was the focus of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s case study that supported his theory of the Oedipus complex. When the boy’s father described his son’s symptoms, Freud interpreted Herbert to be an example of a child experiencing this phenomenon.
Jan 25, 2024 · In 2004, the Freud Archives released a number of key documents which helped to complete the context of the case of little Hans (whose real name was Herbert Graf).
Dr Herbert Graf - intervention during the intermission between act 1 & 2 - Otello Met broadcast Feb 12, 1938, NBC Blue Network - Introduction by Milton J. C...
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Herbert Graf is broadly known in psychoanalysis by the name of "Little Hans." Born on April 10, 1904 in Vienna, he died on April 5, 1973 in Geneva. Graf was the Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York 1936-1960, and Director of the Grand Theatre in Geneva (1965-1973). He also authored several books on opera production in America.
Herbert Graf's childhood neurosis and treatment are viewed through the prisms of his and his father's life histories, the context of the time and the place they and Freud lived and worked and new material not available at the time of the original publication of his case.
