Georg Basner

Georg Basner (* 18th June 1905 in Nidzica , Masuria , † after 1958 ) was a German teacher, playwright and theater practitioners.

Life

Georg Basner was an actor and director and then a teacher at the Reich Labor Service . After 1934, he wrote more than a dozen stage works mostly political and historical Schau- and folk games, and in 1935 a ballad and 1937 a drama .

He joined the NSDAP , came to Jüterbog in the Hanns Kerrl camp (named after Hanns Kerrl ), an institution of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ), which was renamed the National Socialist Lawyers' Association in 1936 . In June 1937 Georg Basner signed a permanent contract with the camp commandant Karl Hildebrandt. From 1937 he worked there as a course director and from 1941 as a cultural-political trainer.

In spring 1950 he got involved with Wilhelm Schaub in the construction of the Kunsthaus at the Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau . In August 1951 he worked as head of advertising in the spa town of Baden-Baden in the Miss Germany beauty contest . In the same year, as a director at Rees-Film in Schwäbisch Gmünd, he finished the documentaries Große Woche and Miss Germany , about the beauty queen Vera Marks .

In February 1946, Georg Basner was entered in the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone with the note “Nazi writers”.

Works

Dramas

• Forgotten army. A dramatic ballad in 5 incidents . Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1935. → New edition: Forgotten Army. Narration . Schwarzhäupter-Verlag, Leipzig 1937.
• The throne in the mist. Drama . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1936 and 1937.

Drama and folk games

• War on the gallows tower. Game of bandits and philistines . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller , Berlin 1935 and 1940.
• The Knight. A game of tough life. Folk game . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1937.
• The free peasantry. Folk game . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1937
• Tannenberg. Folk game . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1938.
• Wind over the slave lake . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1939.
• The young Blucher. Young team game. Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1939.
• Flanders' mortal enemy. Acting . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1940.
• The old man. Acting . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1941.
• Wind over Bear Lake. Acting . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1943.
• Angeline. Acting . Theater publishers Albert Langen and Georg Müller, Berlin 1944.
• The Lord of B. - A not entirely historical spectacle . Thespis Verlag, Essen 1955.

Publications

• with Eugen Bargatzky, Wilfried Schneider: Baden-Baden 1951 . Franz W. Wesel Verlag, Baden-Baden 1951
• with Kristian Kraus: The book of games of chance . Athenäum Verlag, Bonn 1952.
• with Fritz-Georg Münz: Narrow film scripts ready to go . Knapp Verlag, Düsseldorf 1957.
• with Bernd Lohse , Niels Reuter: Photography today . Society for the Promotion of Photography e. V. (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1958.

Filmography

• 1951: Great week
• 1951: Miss Germany

literature

• Basner, Georg . In: Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century . KG Saur Verlag, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-908255-01-5 , p. 677. books.google.de
• Georg Basner in: Folker Schmerbach: The "Hanns Kerrl Community Camp" for trainee lawyers in Jüterbog 1933–1939 . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149585-4 , pp. 90 and 113.
• Basner, Georg . In: Directory of the literature to be sorted out . February 1946, p. 10. archive.org

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Basner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Basner at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oberammergau. We were betrayed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1950 ( online ).
2. ↑ Away from sex . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1951 ( online ).