Paul Wanner

Paul Wanner (born July 27, 1895 in Schwäbisch Hall , † April 5, 1990 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer who also wrote under the pseudonym Gerhard Osiander .

Life

Wanner wrote a large number of plays for open-air theaters in southern Germany, especially for the Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater in his hometown. Among his works there are comedies , as well as folk plays and dramas , as well as stories and poems.

Wanner first attended the Evangelical Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and later studied German, French, history and philosophy in Tübingen and Vienna . Until 1947 he taught as a secondary school teacher in Stuttgart, to devote himself exclusively to writing after that and the theater.

After a period of captivity by the French during the First World War , his play P. G. - Prisonier de la guerre was premiered at the Stuttgart State Theater in 1930 .

Wanner turned to the open-air theater from 1934 onwards, inspired by a commissioned work for the city of Giengen entitled Brennende Heimat , also because he hoped for less regulation by the National Socialists here. After initial successes with open-air plays, especially in Schwäbisch Hall, he worked as a guest director of the Neuenstadt open-air theater from the 1960s , for which he wrote other plays that were performed on many open-air theaters as far as northern Germany in the following years.

Works (selection)

Books

• My life story . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990.
• Experiences and dreams - novellas and stories . JF Steinkopf Publishing House , Stuttgart, 1988.
• The most beautiful fairy tales - retold by Paul Wanner . Schreiber, Esslingen, 1987.
• The most beautiful children's stories . Schreiber, Esslingen, 1984.

The works The Most Beautiful Fairy Tales and The Most Beautiful Children's Stories have also been translated into other languages. He also wrote the introductory texts for 6 issues of the Esslinger Schreiber-Verlag for German lessons, which were published up to five editions: William Shakespeare , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Friedrich Hölderlin , Heinrich von Kleist , Franz Grillparzer and Bertolt Brecht .

Stage plays (selection)

• PG (Prisoner of War) - "Prisonnier de Guerre" - , 1930
• Burning homeland , 1934
• Jedermann (revision) 1936
• The king arrives in 1936
• Builder of God - The Cathedral Builder - 1937
• The women of Schorndorf 1940
• The tailor from Ulm 1949
• The last day in 1955
• The violinist from Gmünd 1961
• Andreas Hofer 1962
• The Neuenstadter Herzogspiel - Fatime's last dance - 1963
• The Tübingen Treaty , 1964
• The Aalen Spy, 1964
• The blacksmith from Illingen in 1967
• Anna Büschlerin 1970
• Turandot 1980
• The Seven Swabians 1984
• The cold heart 1984

The year of creation is unknown for the following works:

• The women of Weinsberg - Swabian woman loyalty -
• The inn in the Spessart
• The Altweibermühle
• Swabian marriage carousel
• Clothes make the man
• Beggars in front of the cross - beggars for the empire -
• The Leonberger Landtag
• The Jewish beech
• The wrong father
• Robert Guiskard

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data after entry of Paul Wanner in the personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg
2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b} Carl Heinz Gräter about Paul Wanner (PDF; 53 kB)
4. ^ Chronicle of the Neuenstadt open-air theater
5. ↑ The Aalen Spy. Cheerful folk drama. Heidenheimer Naturtheater Heidenheimer Volksschauspiele 41st year of play, summer game 1964. by Wanner, Paul :: Heidenheim, CFRees, 19 x 13 cm, paperback - Göppinger Antiquariat. Retrieved September 9, 2017 . 

literature

• Paul Wanner: My life story. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-17-011028-4 ( Living Past. Volume 13)

• Hans Dieter Haller: Paul Wanner (1895 to 1990) in: Pegasus in the country - writers in Hohenlohe, Baier Verlag 2006, pp. 26–31

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Wanner in the catalog of the German National Library
• paulwanner.de - author homepage of Paul Wanner