Claus Harms (dramaturge)
Claus Harms (born April 7, 1908 in Hanover ; † February 10, 1996 there ) was a German dramaturge and journalist .
Life
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Claus Harms was born as the son of a doctor in Hanover at the time of the German Empire and graduated from the Ratsgymnasium there . During the Weimar Republic he studied literary and art history at the University of Hanover , and theater and newspaper studies in Berlin , Leipzig and Hamburg . During his studies he also took acting lessons . He appeared in smaller roles at the Hanoverian Schauburg under Alfons Pape , where he also worked as a dramaturge.
During the Second World War, Claus Harms worked as a dramaturge in Breslau from 1940 and also worked for a German soldier broadcaster . In the last years of the war in 1944/45 he was a soldier .
After the war, Claus Harms returned to his hometown, which was 48 percent destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , and participated in the rebuilding of theater life there . He also took on minor roles in film .
From the year of the West German currency reform in 1948, Harms first worked for the Hannoversche Neuesten Nachrichten and then for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). He was an editor for culture with a focus on film , literary and theater criticism . Even after his retirement in 1973, Claus Harms continued to supply HAZ as a freelancer until shortly before his death.
literature
- Hugo Thielen : HARMS, Claus. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 150 f. ( Preview of Google Book Search)
- Hugo Thielen: Harms, Claus. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 270.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: HARMS, Claus , Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 150 f.
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 694 f.
- ^ Obituary in: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 105, 1996/97 season, published by Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Anerbeiger , Hamburg 1997, p. 818
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harms, Claus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dramaturge, journalist, film, theater and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1996 |
| Place of death | Hanover |