Franz Hafner (theater manager)

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Franz Hafner ; German actor , director and director of the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater .

Life

Hafner had completed training in singing and acting. From 1949 he led the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater, modernized and enlarged it. By taking over the management of the theater, the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater not only built on its pre-war successes, but also increased its reputation . Up until 1982 alone, Hafner had staged 93 world premieres and a total of 322 pieces - mainly comedies and comedies, but also serious plays. Under his direction, mostly also under his direction and his participation as an actor, some productions of the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater were recorded for television from 1965 and broadcast on ZDF . He also appeared in the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater and outside of it as a singer of Bavarian folk songs.

After 38 years, Hafner was replaced as theater director by Elisabeth Hölzl-Michalsky on April 15, 1987.

Honors

TV productions (selection)

In the folk plays he staged, he often worked as an actor - u. a. in:

  • Max Werner: Silent Night, Holy Night (1967)
  • Maximilian Vitus: Thomas on the Ladder to Heaven (1967)
  • Franz Schaurer: Vacation from the double bed (1970)
  • Hans Dengel: Nepotism (1976)
  • Franz Schaurer: Grandpa Makes Stupid Things (1978)

Record recordings

Franz Hafner is featured as an interpreter for the following recordings:

  • Salzburg Advent Singing 2 , probably part of the Tobi Reiser Quintet, together with Wilhelm Keller, Richard Moder, Paul Hofhaimer, framed with readings by Karl Heinrich Waggerl . Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 196 ?, CGLP 75 852.
  • Bertesgaden Liebfrauenmesse . Original recordings from the Ramsau pilgrimage church Maria Kunterweg . Add. with Corbinian Rother, Franz Hafner himself is listed as speaker, singer and director. Philips 423 438 PE. Year of recording and publication unknown.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Hellmut Beautiful (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time - Supplement I . Pp. 86-88
  2. ^ ZDF Theaterkanal - theater productions 2002 , on December 4th, 2002: Silent Night, Holy Night , play by Max Werner. Production: Franz Hafner, Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater, 1967, online at zdf-jahrbuch.de
  3. tvprogramme.net Program from Wednesday, March 29, 1967, recorded by Jakob Oberdacher, morning program from ARD and ZDF with reference to Thomas on the sky ladder in the Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater
  4. imdb.com With reference to Hafner as director of Urlaub vom Betten (1970)
  5. ZDF Theaterkanal - theater productions 2003 , on January 2, 2003: nepotism , folk play by Hans Dengel, new version by Curt Hanno Gutbrod. Production: Franz Hafner, Berchtesgadener Bauerntheater, 1976, online at zdf-jahrbuch.de
  6. Achim Klünder (Ed.): Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of television plays in ..., Volume 2 , p. 71, online at books.google.de
  7. bib-bvb.de , entries to Franz Hafner
  8. According to the source, the title is Bertesgadener Liebfrauenmesse , but it may be a typographical error and it should correctly read Berchtesgadener Liebfrauenmesse .