Eduard Hermann (director)

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Eduard Hermann (born August 16, 1903 in Steinau an der Oder , Province of Silesia , † March 25, 1964 ) was a German actor , radio play director and radio play speaker .

Life

Born in Silesia, he came to Münster in Westphalia at an early age , where he graduated from high school in 1921. He then dropped out of music studies and instead began studying acting. Between 1923 and 1932 he was engaged at various theaters in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia , including Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , where he made a name for himself as a character comedian.

In 1925 it went to Westdeutsche Funkstunde AG (WEFAG) in Munster, which had started operations a year earlier as the last of the nine broadcasting stations already in existence in Germany. He was also temporarily employed at the secondary station in Dortmund . From 1934 to 1943 he was already active as a director.

After the Second World War he went to the NWDR in 1946 and initially worked for both the Hamburg and Cologne broadcasters. On May 1, 1947, he became the first director of the Cologne radio play department. In the following year, Hermann also became deputy head of the radio play department.

He has now directed numerous radio plays. The best known were the Paul Temple radio plays by British crime writer Francis Durbridge , which he produced from 1949 to 1962 in eight parts each. The first multi-part series entitled Paul Temple and the Gregory affair made an exception . This was made in 10 parts together with our Hamburg colleagues. Hermann directed the 5 "Cologne Parts" and Fritz Schröder-Jahn in the 5 "Hamburg Episodes" . Frequently used speakers included René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes , Kurt Lieck and Herbert Hennies , who always embodied the same people, for example Peter René Körner , Heinz Schimmelpfennig , Heinz von Cleve and Lilly Towska . Except for the Gregory affair , the recording is considered lost, all productions have been released on CD. After his death, two more multi-part series emerged under the direction of Otto Düben , namely the Geneva and Alex cases .

In 1951 he directed the six-part series From the Secret Files of Scotland Yard , which dealt with real criminal cases that were processed by the British authorities. In all parts, Max Eckard leads the story as the narrator.

Several productions also deal with the subject of war and the post-war period. Including the cheerful English piece When he came back home by Alan Alexander Milne , which was broadcast in a German adaptation by Lucy Millowitsch .

In the first few years in particular, he was often heard as a speaker himself.

Radio plays

As a director

As a speaker

  • 1949: The Bartered Grandfather (An East Prussian) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1949: Faust II (Famulus) - Director: Ludwig Berger
  • 1952: Marital game (speaker) (also director)
  • 1952: They never come back (Joe Jacobs) by Kurt Brumme - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1953: Summiteer with an umbrella - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: reporter Rex Rendal; 1st episode: Seven were left - Director: Kurt Meister
  • 1953: reporter Rex Rendal; Second episode: Sixty seconds left - Director: Kurt Meister
  • 1953: reporter Rex Rendal; 3rd episode: through car to Salzburg - director: Kurt Meister
  • 1954: reporter Rex Rendal; 9th episode: Lepke surrenders (stranger) - Director: Kurt Meister

literature

  • WDR archive / biographies (as of March 14, 2011)
  • The internet database of the ARD radio play archive, accessed on March 25, 2011 (all information on radio plays)