Els Vordemberge

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Els Vordemberge (born 5. July 1902 in Vienna in Austria-Hungary as Else Tintner ;. Died 25. February 1999 in Cologne ) was an Austrian-German actress , radio play speaker , radio editor and director of the Children Orchestra of WERAG , later the West German Radio .

life and work

education

The family of Else Tintner, who was born in Vienna, went to Düsseldorf in 1911 , where her father Julius was the managing director. After completing school, she began acting training at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf with Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann . She received her first engagements in Osnabrück and at the Rheinische Landesbühnen in Düren . Here she met the set designer and graphic artist Friedrich Vordemberge . With him she went to Bremen in 1923 . In 1926 she married Vordemberge and the couple moved to Cologne.

WERAG

Through the agency of fellow actor Alexander Maaß, Els Vordemberge got a job as a freelancer in the WERAG radio play ensemble in 1927 . She worked u. a. in the first WERAG radio play, Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Gerhart Hauptmann , directed by Ernst Hardt , on the trip to Knecht Rupprecht's workshop and with Anne Tölle-Honekamp's puppet doctor. After a short time, Els Vordemberge established herself as a popular radio announcer. When there was a position to be filled as a reader for fairy tales, Els Vordemberge applied for this position. It established the children's hour , which was broadcast on workdays by WERAG. She conceived children's radio plays and broadcast programs with children. In addition to classic radio formats, she developed hands-on programs, went to the Cologne zoo with the children or organized boat trips on the Rhine. As one of the few freelance workers, Els Vordemberge was given a permanent position at WERAG and from 1928 headed the WERAG children's radio alongside Marie Theres van den Wyenbergh, who was responsible for the women 's lesson.

time of the nationalsocialism

On August 23, 1932, the National Socialist West German observer addressed the Jewish religious affiliation of Els Vordemberge and continued the defamation in the period that followed.

“Away with the foreign blooded! There are a hundred German women who, unlike 'Els Vordemberge', can give our children a real and truly German children's hour. We expect from Westdeutscher Rundfunk that the Jewess will quickly disappear from the children's radio class and that a German-blooded force will be won for this task. "

- West German observer

From mid-March to mid-April 1933, the broadcaster Els Vordemberge and Jewish and politically active employees, including the artistic director Ernst Hardt, the tenor Leonardo Aramesco , the head of the program department Hans Ulmann, Bronislaw Mittmann, Marie Theres van der Wyenbergh, Hans Ebert, Hans Stein and Harry Hermann Spitz . They were banned from entering the broadcasting house.

As the wife of Friedrich Vordemberge, she was initially largely protected from further persecution. At the end of the 1930s, her husband's works of art were defamed as " degenerate " and the marginalization and harassment of the couple increased steadily. Els' brother Heinrich (Heinz) was to be deported from Düsseldorf to Izbica on April 22, 1942 with the DA 52 deportation train . Els helped his brother go into hiding, who avoided deportation by making a fake suicide announcement. The Vordemberge couple organized various hiding places for Heinz Tintner. After the apartment in Cologne was bombed out, the Vordemberge couple moved to Bad Honnef . In October 1944, the imprisonment and deportation of Jewish spouses who lived in a so-called " mixed marriage " according to the Nuremberg race laws were ordered in the German Reich . Els Vordemberge was warned of the imminent deportation and was able to go into hiding. It was hidden in December 1944 by a couple of friends, Hilde and Sigurd Lorck and his brother Frithjof Lorck in different places in Cologne-Zollstock . After she became seriously ill at the beginning of 1945, her brother Heinz found a new hiding place outside Cologne. Until she was liberated by the US Army on March 7, 1945, she lived in hiding in Rheinbreitbach .

New start at NWDR / WDR

Although Els Vordemberge no longer had the intention to work for the Cologne radio station again due to the negative experience with WERAG, she was convinced again for the under by Alexander Maaß, who worked as a British control officer for the Northwest German Broadcasting in Hamburg after the war British administration station standing to work. From 1946 she was employed under Karl Petry in the Head of Literary Department and again took over the management of the children's radio. After the NWDR was split up into North German Radio and West German Radio in 1956, she took over the management of children's radio in WDR. As before the war, she actively involved the children in shaping the radio program. In addition to established formats such as reading, music-making and puzzle lessons, children's carnival sessions and discussion groups, she also installed the monthly children's congress, which was designed entirely by children .

In the 1960s, WDR was offered the successful Bavarian radio play Pumuckl for production. Els Vordemberge and her colleague Ingeborg Oehme-Tröndle developed the Rhenish radio adaptation Always this Fizzibitz, a very popular radio production that was broadcast in 35 episodes from 1963 to 1966. Prominent actors such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Hildegard Krekel , Friedl Münzer , Sabine Postel , Tommy Engel and Edgar Hoppe appeared in supporting roles .

Els Vordemberge actively campaigned for the re-establishment of GEDOK after the war in Cologne. In 1955 she was elected to the Speech Art Advisory Board .

Grave of Friedrich and Els Vordemberge in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

Before her retirement in 1964, she helped set up the editorial team for children's television at WDR and designed television programs such as Jugendstunde , which she occasionally moderated. In retirement, she accompanied her husband to his art exhibitions at home and abroad until his death in 1981. In the 1980s she occasionally worked as a radio play speaker for productions of the WDR, a. a. in the radio play Capriccio italiano (1987).

Els Vordemberge died on February 25, 1999 in Cologne at the age of 96 and was buried at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. J) at her husband's side.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Birgit Bernard: The West German Radio as an Employer for Artists 1927-1933 . In: History in the West . tape 17 . Rhineland, 2002, ISSN  0930-3286 , p. 39 .
  2. ↑ Horst Matzerath: Jüdisches Schicksal in Köln 1918–1945: Exhibition by the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne, NS Documentation Center, November 8, 1988 to January 22, 1989 in the Cologne City Museum, Alte Wache, Cologne . City of Cologne, 1988, p. 99 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Birgit Bernard: Els Vordemberge (1902–1999) . In: radio and history . tape 25 , no. 2/3 , p. 152 f .
  4. ↑ Kulturation: Online journal for culture, science and politics. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Stefan Kames, Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Robert von Zahn: Media and music journalism in Cologne around 1933: three highlights on a usurpation . Merseburger, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-87537-306-5 , p. 32 f .
  6. ↑ Birgit Bernard, Stefan Kames, Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Robert von Zahn (2005): Media and music journalism in Cologne around 1933: three spotlights on a usurpation , p. 32f.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Schütte: Regionality and Federalism in Broadcasting. The historical development in Germany 1923–1945. Knecht, Frankfurt a. M. 1971, ISBN 3-7820-0228-8 , pp. 135 .
  8. ↑ deportation list April 22 1942 Düssseldorf to Izbica, page 46. Accessed on 18 January 2020 .
  9. ↑ Günther Bernd Ginzel: "- nobody was allowed to know that!": Help for persecuted people in the Rhineland from 1933 to 1945: conversations, documents, texts . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1995, p. 303 f .
  10. ↑ Peter von Rüden: The history of the Northwest German broadcast . 1st edition. tape 1 . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09530-5 , p. 33 .
  11. ^ WDR radio play: Always this Fizzibitz - Pumuckl fan website. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten: Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 228 .

literature

  • Birgit Bernard: Els Vordemberge (1902–1999) . In: Rundfunk und Geschichte, 25th year, 1999, issue 2/3, pp. 152f.
  • Heinz Tintner: Report / biography and documents Els Vordemberge , Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, inventory 1344, No. 1082
personal data
SURNAME Vordemberge, Els
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vordemberge, Else; Tintner, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German actress, radio play speaker and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1999
Place of death Cologne