Friedrich Bischoff

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Friedrich Bischoff (until 1933 Fritz Walter Bischoff , born January 26, 1896 in Neumarkt / Silesia , † May 21, 1976 in Großweier / Baden-Württemberg ) was a German writer and radio pioneer.

Life

Friedrich Bischoff studied German, philosophy and art history in Breslau and in 1923 became a dramaturge at the local theater. In 1925 he switched to the radio station Schlesische Funkstunde as literary director , of which he was director from 1929 to 1933. Bischoff dealt intensively with the technical and acoustic possibilities of broadcasting and has worked significantly on the development of radio art. So he used the cross-fading device just invented by the engineer Friedrich Gasde and used sound effects. Together with Werner Milch , he produced the radio play Hallo! In February 1928 . Here wave globe! This is considered a benchmark work of the new art movement. At the same time it is the oldest German-language radio play that has been preserved as a sound recording .

Bischoff also had a feeling for light entertainment. From 1926 he took the humorist Ludwig Manfred Lommel into the program with his scenes about the "Sender Runxendorf on wave 0.5".

With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship , Bischoff was removed from his post as director and was a remand prisoner for the Gestapo for months , until the proceedings against him in the radio trial in 1934/35 were discontinued and he was released. Later, Bischoff took part in Weimar poets' meetings, which Joseph Goebbels had carried out from 1938 as a show for the elite of the National Socialist literature business in Weimar . Goebbels sometimes had specific writers invited to the meetings who were rather remote from the regime.

Until 1945, Bischoff worked as a lecturer and writer. He created numerous works of narrative prose and poetry in the mystical-romantic tradition of his Silesian homeland.

In March 1946 he was appointed director of the newly established Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. He held this office until June 30, 1965.

Bischoff was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry as well as the Academy of Sciences and Literature and an honorary citizen of the University of Mainz . In 1951 he was honored with the appointment to professor. In 1954 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

Works

Book publications
  • God Wanderer. Poems . 1921
  • Without face. Novel . 1922
  • The tides. Poems . 1924
  • Age. Novel . 1925
  • The golden locks. Novel . 1935
  • Silesian Psalter. Thanks and a song of praise with an epilogue: Workshop between heaven and earth. 1936
  • The Waterman. Novel . 1937
  • Heaven and hell. A story book . 1938
  • The cornucopia. Songs and ballads of childhood . 1939
  • Constellation of the homeland "Stories and Poems" 1943
  • Heaven and hell. Narration . 1949
  • Rübezahl's grave. Narratives . 1937
  • Gold over Danae. Narratives . 1953
  • Be kind to us earth. New poems with the songs and ballads of childhood and the selected poems of the Silesian Psalter . 1955

Numerous other publications in anthologies, magazines and newspapers

Radio plays
  • Hello! Here wave globe! A radio play symphony. First performance on February 4, 1928, Breslau Schlesische Funkstunde .
  • The radio play from the radio play . Recordings for the radio exhibition and phono show in Berlin in 1931. (Contains six excerpts from radio plays of the Silesian Radio Lesson .) Production 27./28. July 1931, Breslau.

Honors

See also

literature

  • Manfred Overesch , Friedrich Wilhelm Saal: Droste history calendar. Chronicle of German history, politics, economy, culture. Volume II / 1: The Third Reich 1933-1939 . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1982.
  • Marduk Buscher: The artistic director as the broadcast manager . In: Communications StRuG, 16th century. No. 2/3 - ISSN  0175-4351 .
  • Alfons Hayduk: One year in Runxendorf . In: Ostdeutsche Illustrierte Funkwoche . 1927 issue 34.
  • Marduk Buscher: Intentions of an artistic director. Friedrich Bischoff and his program work on Südwestfunk. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2018 ISBN 9783848754250

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Sarkowicz , Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon. Extended new edition. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-203-82030-7 , p. 21 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bischoff, Fritz Walter (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt ( Silesia )
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1976
Place of death Großweier