It was then - stories from old Berlin

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Back then it was - Tales from Old Berlin is the title of a radio play series that was mainly produced under the direction of Ivo Veit .

Radiance and scope

The series was broadcast on the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS between 1964 and 1987 . Several episodes were also broadcast on NDR from the mid-1970s . In 1987 the last story with the title Die Kneipe im Kiez was broadcast. 40 stories with 426 approximately half-hour individual broadcasts (over 195 broadcast hours in total) are known.

Literary templates and actors

The stories from old Berlin usually take place around 1900 and offer a mixture of gazebo , Marlitt or Courths-Mahler novels and “ Zille sein Milljöh”. Some episodes were based on the works of well-known authors such as Alice Berend (Spreemann & Co, Mrs. Hempels Daughter, The Bridegrooms of Babette Bomberling) , Erdmann Graeser (Die Koblanks, Die Eisrieke, Herr Kanzleirat Ziepke) and Max Kretzer (The Millionaire Farmer ) .

As a narrator and “fairy tale uncle”, Ewald Wenck accompanied the listeners through the episodes with a wink and amusing, sometimes ironic, marginal notes after a long drawn out “Juutenaaamd”. After Wenck's death in 1981, Edith Hancke took over the narrative role in the productions that were still in existence and, from 1981, in the following productions .

Contributors were u. a. Karl Hellmer , Otto Matthies , Reinhold Bernt , Herbert Weißbach , Erich Fiedler , Camilla Spira , Lu Säuberlich , Edgar Ott , Ekkehard Fritsch , Lola Luigi , Peter Schiff , Ingeborg Wellmann , Klaus Herm , Wilfried Herbst , Gisela Fritsch , Karl Haas, Norbert Gescher , Rudi Stark (1914 - after 1978), Gerd Holtenau , Inge Wolffberg , Erna Haffner , Lilli Schoenborn , Günther Schwerkolt , Sigurd Lohde as well as members of the former islanders like Agnes Windeck , Edith Schollwer , Ilse Trautschold and Bruno Fritz .

Stories

in chronological order:
  1. Die Koblanks (Erdmann Graeser, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz ) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1964 (12 episodes)
  2. Mrs. Hempel's daughter (Alice Berend, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1964 (10 episodes)
  3. Spreemann & Co. (Alice Berend, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1965 (15 episodes)
  4. Berliner Rangen (Ulrike Brückner) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1965 (8 episodes)
  5. The Millionaire Farmer (Max Kretzer, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1966 (15 episodes)
  6. The sweet Anna (Ulrike Brückner, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1966 (15 episodes)
  7. The Bridegrooms of Babette Bomberling (Alice Berend, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1967 (10 episodes)
  8. Circus Renz (August Heinrich Kober, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1967 (20 episodes)
  9. Die Eisrieke (Erdmann Graeser, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1968 (12 episodes)
  10. Steinmüller's heirs (Edwin Beyssel, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1969 (10 episodes)
  11. Bertha Wegemannswege (Friedrich Hackländer, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1969 (15 episodes)
  12. The Fathers of Felizitas (Edwin Beyssel, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1970 (8 episodes)
  13. Mr Kanzleirat Ziepke (Erdmann Graeser, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1970 (12 episodes)
  14. Drei Spatzen unterm Dach (Cornelia Schöner, edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1971 (10 episodes)
  15. The cozy Gustav (Edwin Beyssel, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1971 (12 episodes)
  16. Giese versus Giesebrecht (Willibald Runge, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1971 (10 episodes)
  17. Hansemann & Söhne (Egon Polling, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1972 (12 episodes)
  18. Die Havelnixe (Theodor Ziegler, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1973 (10 episodes)
  19. Der Storch in der Linde (Egon Polling) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1973 (12 episodes)
  20. Romeo and Julchen (Ernestine Bach, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1974 (10 episodes)
  21. Der Stramme Max (Alfred Andel, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1974 (12 episodes)
  22. The blessed Cornelie (Erich Jakob, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1975 (8 episodes)
  23. Bruno Brieses Bräute (Erich Jakob, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1975 (10 episodes)
  24. Krösus Krause (Alfred Andel) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1976 (12 episodes)
  25. Die Kuckuckseier (Erich Jakob, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1976 (12 episodes)
  26. The lordly Ferdinand (Oswald Mendel, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1977 (8 episodes)
  27. Wilhelm Wittes Witwen (Erich Jakob) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1977 (12 episodes)
  28. The busy Lieschen (Hermine Jüttner, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1978 (10 episodes)
  29. The Lord in the House (Erich Jakob, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1978 (12 episodes)
  30. Die flotte Charlotte (Hermine Jüttner, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Ivo Veit, 1979 (8 episodes)
  31. A man for nuts (Albertine Junker, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Paul Esser , 1979 (12 episodes)
  32. Franz im Glück (Heinrich Wulkow, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Paul Esser, 1980 (8 episodes)
  33. Adam's Paradise (Heinrich Podolla, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Paul Esser, 1981 (8 episodes)
  34. Die Minna von Barnheims (Walter Baumann, freely adapted by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Paul Esser, 1981 (10 episodes)
  35. Glück im Winkel (Johanna von Politz, freely edited by Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Horst Kintscher , 1982 (6 episodes)
  36. The daughters of Madame Dutitre (Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Horst Kintscher, 1983 (10 episodes)
  37. Kunkel's Blessed Widow (Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Horst Kintscher, 1983 (8 episodes)
  38. Apples in the Neighbour's Garden (Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Horst Kintscher, 1984 (6 episodes)
  39. Five Millers and a Million (Werner E. Hintz) - Director: Horst Kintscher, 1986 (8 episodes)
  40. The pub in the Kiez (Sabine Thiesler) - directed by Bärbel Jarchow-Frey (1–4), Robert Matejka (5–7), Manfred Marchfelder (8–10), 1987 (10 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Volume 4 (Singer - Tzschoppe), founded by Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall. KG Saur Verlag Bern and Munich, 1998, page 2279. Accessed June 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Nagel: Back then it was - stories from old Berlin. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ RIAS Berlin ** It was back then - stories from old Berlin. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .