Franz Hiesel

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Franz Hiesel (born April 11, 1921 in Vienna , † November 2, 1996 in Oberpullendorf , Burgenland) was an Austrian radio play author , dramaturge and writer .

Life

After leaving high school, trained as a druggist. Soldier from 1940 to 1945. After being a prisoner of war in the United States and France, tram conductors and drivers. 1951 to 1960 librarian at the Wiener Städtische Libraries under director Dr. Rudolf Müller, who supported several young writers in this way.

1960 chief dramaturg at Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg and deputy head of the main radio play department; 1967/68 also its director.

1968 to 1976 in Munich freelance work as an author and dramaturge for the broadcasting corporations of the ARD .

1977 to 1983 head of the radio play and literature production department at the ORF regional studio in Vienna.

From 1983 to 1989, when he retired, he created an "International Radio Play Archive" with the ORF under the project title Repertoire 999 . A selection of the 999 best radio plays from a stock of 40,000 to 45,000 productions from twenty archives of ARD, Rundfunk der DDR , SRG and ORF. Publication in two volumes October 1989 by the ORF publishing house.

In addition to numerous radio plays, Hiesel wrote and published poems, stories, short prose and feature articles. He also wrote plays for the theater and scripts for television. His extensive estate was taken over in 2004 by the manuscript collection of the Vienna Library. In addition to his own texts, his archive also includes radio play manuscripts by Ingeborg Bachmann , Gerhard Fritsch and many other authors and their correspondence, as well as a collection of rare and in some cases believed to be lost sound recordings and a thematically relevant library.

Franz Hiesel has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including: Austrian State Prize (1952, 1954); Radio Play Prize of the Bavarian Radio (1956); Radio Play Prize of the War Blind (1959), Grimme Prize (1965); Golden screen 1972, Prix ​​Italia (RAI Prize) 1980.

Awards

  • Professional title Professor (1965)
  • Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (1984)
  • Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna in Gold (1985).

Works

Radio plays

  • 1953 Night Express 3017 , ORF.
  • 1954 From Hope to Hope , ORF, (Director: Filip Julius ), (Austrian State Prize) and 1955 Radio Bremen .
  • 1955 Parole , ORF, 1956 under the title: Password Sonnenvogel , NDR, director: Gustav Burmester .
  • 1956 The Skull Ballad , ORF.
  • 1957 Old Man River , NDR / RIAS .
  • 1959 L'onore , ORF.
  • 1959 On a molehill , NDR / ORF, director: Egon Monk , (radio play award of the war blind).
  • 1960 The trip to Austria , together with Gerhard Fritsch, NDR / SDR , director: Gerlach Fiedler , 5-part radio play series, each approx. 50 ': Depth psychology , The family crypt or There was a castle in Austria , The battle near Deutsch-Wagram , Local appointment , reception in Stockington .
  • 1961 Mr. Pum is looking for his murderer , BR / NDR / ORF, director: Gerlach Fiedler.
  • 1963 God loves the Swiss , NDR / SWF , director: Hans Lietzau .
  • 1967 Homecoming from Sankt Pölten , NDR, director: Gert Westphal .
  • 1968 The straw puppet show , NDR / SFB .
  • 1970 The dog heart , NDR / RIAS.
  • 1970 The route walker , SDR / SFB / NDR, director: Otto Düben .
  • 1971 Das Paket , BR / NDR, director: Heinz-Günter Stamm .
  • 1971 In the monkey cage , SDR / SFB, director: Otto Düben.
  • 1971 Adoptions , NDR.
  • 1972 The one and the other Ticino , WDR , director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell .
  • 1972 Else, mein Els'chen , DRS , director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell.
  • 1973 In dire straits: Elias Dersch , HR / RB, director: Horst H. Vollmer .
  • 1973 About the difficulties of crossing a very busy street , WDR, director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell.
  • 1974 The delicious consequences of a failed siege , SFB / HR / WDR, director: Hans Bernd Müller .
  • 1974 Agathe , BR / SFB, director: Heinz-Günter Stamm, and 1975 ORF, director: Fritz Zecha .
  • 1975 The daring games at Rothenbaum , NDR, director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn .
  • 1977 Hairdressers Day , RIAS.
  • 1976 What do you think of Irma Prein? BR / SFB, director: Ulrich Lauterbach , and 1986 GDR, director: Rainer Schwarz .
  • 1978 Too little or too much is every fool's goal , NDR.
  • 1985 Dieu le Veult! , WDR / ORF, director: Friedhelm Ortmann .
  • 1985 Oath of Revelation , NDR / ORF, director: Götz Fritsch , and Magyar Radio , Hungarian. Production on the same broadcast date.
  • 1986 Jaburek , WDR / ORF, director: Heinz-Wilhelm Schwarz .

Translation and production of radio plays in the following countries: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Israel, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Canada and Australia.

Printed radio plays

  • 1956 The jungle of the world , two radio plays, Parole Sonnenvogel and The Skull Ballad , Bergland Verlag Vienna.
  • 1958 I know the smell of the wild chamomile Stories and the radio play L'onore , Stiasny Verlag Graz.
  • 1960 On a molehill , radio play, Hans Bredow-Verlag Hamburg.
  • The delicious consequences of a failed siege Radio play, Reclam-Verlag.
  • In the monkey cage published in literature and criticism.
  • Else, mein Els'chen published in Podium.
  • In dire straits: Elias Dersch published in Die Pestsäule.
  • Agathe publishes in literature and criticism.
  • The day of the hairdressers published in Podium.
  • 1988 What do you think of Irma Prein? published in the anthology Das Wunder von Wien , Reclam-Verlag Leipzig.

Plays

Television films

  • 1965 On the beautiful blue Danube , NDR, time situation Dollfussmord, director: John Olden, also as a movie.
  • 1971 Blaues Wild , BR. based on a story by Ingeborg Bachmann, director: Peter Schulze-Rohr.
  • 1975 The exception , NDR / ORF, time background and events of October 1950, director: Walter Davy .

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personal data
SURNAME Hiesel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, radio play author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1996
Place of death Oberpullendorf