Gerd Focke

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Gerd Focke (born April 7, 1927 in Leipzig ; † April 3, 2016 ibid.) Was a German dramaturge , director , writer , actor and broadcaster .

Life

Focke graduated from high school and then did a commercial apprenticeship. After the Second World War he attended the drama school in Leipzig, where he worked as an actor and broadcaster. As a result of a stage accident, he had to give up acting. He became a dramaturgy assistant and finally a dramaturge in Leipzig, Nordhausen and, from 1964 to 1990, in Halle (Saale) . In the Halle studio of the German television broadcasting company , for which he had worked since 1955, he emerged primarily as the (co-) founder of the Moritzburg television theater and as its long-standing director.

In addition, Focke was present as a writer from 1950 and from 1963 to 1990 as a film, television and theater critic.

Works (selection)

Stage plays

  • They wear knight's crosses again (1954)
  • Dangerous Silence (1959)
  • Meegeren Scandal (1960)
  • Do you know where you're at home ? (1963)
  • Peter and the Robot (puppet show, 1964)
  • Bob goes to Africa (puppet show, 1967)
  • Fronts (1968)
  • Spiked Belly the First (satirical puppet show, 1969)
  • Five times the three (1974)
  • The Red Beard (1977)
  • Rinaldo Rinaldini - the Corsican wolf (after Christian August Vulpius , 1984)
  • The Great Ferdinand (1987)
  • Night Figures (1987)

Children's radio plays

  • Olja's great deed (1953)
  • Catalin with the gold curls (1954)
  • We are not silent (1955)
  • Author unknown (1956)
  • In tyrannos (1956)
  • The Neuberin (1957)
  • The Long Way (1957)
  • Karl Brinkmann (4 parts; 1958)
  • Isa and Wolfried (1958)
  • It's about Germany (1959)

Detective radio plays

  • Copy deadline (1979)
  • Tea for Inspector Whitechappel (1980)
  • Condolence Visit (1983)
  • Late Rendezvous (1985)
  • Gangsters and Crooks (1985)
  • The Doubel (1986)
  • In the shadow of the oak (1989)

TV drama

  • Scandal in Amsterdam (1959)
  • The executioner judges (A Scholl Sibling TV game, 1960)
  • The best father in the world (1965)
  • The Wrong Track (1965)
  • Harras the Police Dog (1966)
  • Dispute After Midnight (1967)
  • Residence (1968)
  • Deal for a dead person (after Paul Berndt (actor) , 1968)
  • Signal on red (1968)
  • Evening visit (after Otto Gotsche , 1968)
  • Off The Big Streets (1969)
  • The great coup of Waldi P. (1973)
  • Washing up a mountain (with Paul Herbert Freyer , 1975)
  • Breakfast is served at eight (1978)
  • Love, make-up and intrigue (Acting, 1978)
  • A totally crazy idea (based on Carl Lauffs , 1981)
  • Always the Same Song (Acting, 1987)

literature

  • Günter Helmes , Steffi Schältzke (Ed.): The Moritzburg TV Theater. Institution and schedule . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-936522-99-5 .
    • Günter Helmes, Gerhard Lampe, Steffi Schältzke: Foreword . Ibid., Pp. 7-9.
    • Günter Helmes, Gerd Focke: The TV theater Moritzburg: history, topics, tendencies. A conversation. Ibid., Pp. 25-64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmes, Focke: Das Fernsehtheater Moritzburg (see "Literature"), 2003, p. 29. Horst Sindermann , who later became President of the People's Chamber , spoke to Focke with the words "You are building a television theater. [...] It's a Indictment that people always have to turn on western television to be able to see cheerful plays. We can do that too! " tasked with founding the television theater.
personal data
SURNAME Focke, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, director, writer, actor and broadcaster
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2016
Place of death Leipzig