Claus Hubalek

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Harry Claus Hubalek (born March 18, 1926 in Berlin ; † May 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German writer , dramaturge and screenwriter who primarily dealt critically with problems of the war and post-war period.

Life

Participation in the war, first works and awards

Hubalek, son of a businessman , was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht after attending a grammar school during the Second World War and was taken prisoner after serving at the front . After the end of the war, he completed a degree in philology and then worked as a teacher .

His literary debut Our Young Years. The diary of a twenty year old was published in 1947 with a foreword by Ludwig Renn and illustrations by Oswald Ebert in the Volk und Welt publishing house, who also published his second book, the short story Das Glasauge (1949). Also published by Volk und Welt in 1947 was Die den Wind , his translation of Martha Dodds Sowing the Wind (1945).

Hubalek achieved greater fame from the mid-1950s with his stage works , in particular with his first and at the same time most successful play Der Hauptmann und seine Held (1953), which was awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize in 1953 , the literature prize of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . The play had its world premiere on January 14, 1954 in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . Jo Herbst , Walther Suessenguth and Günter Pfitzmann , who, like Herbst, belonged to the Berlin cabaret Die Stachelschweine , played in the work staged by Oscar Fritz Schuh . In this comedy , influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Georg Kaiser , Hubalek sharply and aptly commented on the perfect absurdity of a military administrative machinery.

The play, which in 1955 also with the Drama Prize of the German Theater Association , in 1955, directed by Max Nosseck with Ernst Schröder as "Captain Eisenhecker" and Jo Herbst in the role of "Paul Kellermann / Franz Kellermann" filmed . Günter Pfitzmann, who played the role of "Captain Roeder", was seen in another role.

In the following years, after the comedy No Fallen for the Foxes (1957), the other plays The Fortress appeared. A report on the fall of an East Prussian town, 1945 (1958), The Hour of Antigone (1961), Stalingrad (1961) based on the novel of the same name by Theodor Plievier and the novel The Expulsion (1962).

Chief dramaturge at NDR and at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus

Then in 1963 Hubalek became chief dramaturge of the television program of the North German Radio (NDR) and worked there until 1966. There, in 1963, the controversial adaptation of Stalingrad to a television film took place when it was first broadcast , in which Ullrich Haupt , Hanns Lothar and Wolfgang Büttner played the leading roles under the direction of Gustav Burmester . In addition, he wrote numerous other television films and television games, such as the one based on the novel Im Schlaraffenland. A novel among fine people by Heinrich Mann , comedy Im Schlaraffenland (1965).

In 1968, Hubalek took over the position of chief dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , where he staged the controversial series of scenes on obedience with Egon Monk . Scenes from Germany, where submitting one's own will to someone else's is a virtue .

Other written by him television productions were among the 21 July (1972), the two-part TV movie Union the firm hand (1979) to the 1931 published novel by Erik Reger , who under the direction of Volker Vogeler resulting anti-war film Luftwaffenhelfer (1980), and Foreign country or When freedom was still to be had (1982) based on the novel by Arno Surminski . The television series Jokehnen or How long do you travel from East Prussia to Germany was also based on a novel . (1987). Most recently, he and Ann Ladiges wrote the screenplay for the television series Schwarzenberg (1989) based on the 1984 novel by Stefan Heym .

Publications

  • Our young years. Diary of a twenty year old , 1947
  • The glass eye , 1949
  • The captain and his hero , 1953
  • No traps for the foxes , 1957
  • The fortress. A report on the fall of an East Prussian town, 1945 , 1957
  • The hour of Antigone , 1961
  • Stalingrad , 1961
  • The expulsion , 1962
Cooperation

Filmography

  • 1955: The captain and his hero
  • 1957: The fortress
  • 1958: a dangerous person
  • 1960: fair
  • 1960: The hour of Antigone
  • 1962: The revolution dismisses its children
  • 1963: Stalingrad
  • 1963: The shadow
  • 1963: Festival
  • 1965: The chain on your neck
  • 1965: One day report from a German concentration camp in 1939
  • 1965: In the land of plenty
  • 1965: The moment of peace
  • 1967: prison
  • 1968: On Obedience. Scenes from Germany, where submitting one's own will to someone else's is a virtue
  • 1972: The strange adventures of the secret office secretary Tusmann
  • 1972: Jurisprudence - Scenic reconstruction of the trial against Dr. John Bodkin Adams
  • 1972: July 21st
  • 1975: A German assassination attempt
  • 1979: Union of the firm hand
  • 1979: A murder everyone commits
  • 1980: Waldwinkel
  • 1980: Air Force helper
  • 1981: We
  • 1981: Kudenow or Weeping at Stranger Waters
  • 1982: Foreign Country or When Freedom Was Still Available
  • 1984: Lenin in Zurich
  • 1987: Jokehnen or How long do you travel from East Prussia to Germany?
  • 1989: Schwarzenberg

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclams Schauspielführer, 19th edition, Stuttgart 1993, p. 434
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Egon Monk and the "Hamburg Dramaturgy" of the television play (homepage of the NDR )
personal data
SURNAME Hubalek, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubalek, Harry Claus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, dramaturge and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 1995
Place of death Hamburg