Gerd Fricke

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Gerd Fricke , also Gert Fricke , (born August 10, 1890 ; † after 1960) was a German radio play director , radio play speaker , radio presenter and actor .

Life

Fricke graduated from the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt . He then began a career as a theater actor. The German Stage Yearbook lists the following stages in its career in its respective years:

As early as 1924, when he was on stage in Frankfurt am Main , he joined the local Südwestdeutschen Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG), the forerunner of Hessian broadcasting , as a spokesman . When his first appearances in a broadcast, as the radio plays were called back then, the ARD radio play database recorded Arthur Schnitzler's farewell souper and question to fate from the Anatol cycle with Fricke in the lead role. The productions were broadcast live without recording on September 16 and October 1, 1924. An adaptation of Goethe's play Stella from March 19, 1925 on the Frankfurt broadcaster is proven to be the first directorial work .

A few years later he went to Germany's broadcaster in Berlin, where he also worked as a speaker and director, and later as director. Among his great successes during this time were Josef Martin Bauer's Das tote Herz , Hans Rothes Drifted Traces , Ludwig Tügel's Loyalty , Günter Eich's Wheat Cantata and Alfred Karrasch's Winke, colorful pennant .

In his function as senior director, he contacted many authors in order to win them over to the radio play genre. As a result, he had made a significant contribution to the success of this art form.

In addition, he conceived a series of entertainment programs that have become legendary, which he also moderated himself, such as Good Morning Dear Listener! , Ole camels , popular chapels and Sunday mornings without worries . He had a great success with his Christmas program Today no one should be lonely , which he designed together with Barnabás von Géczy on Christmas Eve from 11 p.m.

After the Second World War he got off to a difficult start because his career did not really get off to a good start. He made his first broadcasts with Bayerischer Rundfunk and occasionally with HR in Frankfurt. Then he switched to the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart . There he developed programs like The Journey into the Blue and My Friends - Your Friends .

A small sensation was the series from the hundredth to the thousandth in the early 1950s . To do this, he left the radio house studios and visited the people in their homes, whom he had told them about as they met one evening. The celebrities included the writer Walther von Hollander , the stage artist Waldemar Staegemann and the long-time mayor of Ulm Emil Schwamberger .

For the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg he developed the radio play series The Court withdraws for advice in 1952 . Crimes from everyday life were depicted. At the end of each episode there was a discussion with a few listeners, in which the pros and cons of the verdict were discussed. The series consisted of 79 episodes, each of which was directed by Gerd Fricke. The last episode premiered on May 14, 1956.

In the period that followed, until 1961, several radio play productions were recorded for, among others, Südwestfunk and SR, where he worked as a speaker.

He also appeared in some silent films in the 1920s and in various television films from the mid-1950s.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

As a director

The court withdraws for deliberation (79-part series)

  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz : Murder or Suicide
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: Football tumult
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: March 13th
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: Eulenspiegel in court
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: On the way
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: The mysterious parcel of value
  • 1952: Ernst Buchholz: The rose in the wrong place
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar : father and son
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: § 170 c
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Morality in service
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Can offend truth
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The prosecutor becomes a defense attorney
  • 1952: Margarethe Herold : Alfred on ruins
  • 1952: Margarethe Herold: The organ thief
  • 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The white magician
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Fear of the father
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Lonely old man
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The secret of the dark limousine
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The kiss in the gazebo
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The beautiful Erasmus
  • 1953: Wilfried Schlie : Operation nurse Gerda
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Ten seconds of hot temper
  • 1953: Erich Brautlacht : The farewell meal
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The rifle on the cupboard
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The traffic accident
  • 1953: Georg Krönich : The confession
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The fear of Walter Reimers
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The surreptitious apartment
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Franzl does stupid things
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The fine cavalier
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: child abduction
  • 1953: Margarethe Herold: The missing ring
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: remote diagnosis
  • 1953: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Easy boy - serious theft
  • 1954: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The big brother
  • 1954: Ernst Buchholz: The hostile neighbors
  • 1954: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The sleeping potion
  • 1954: Margarethe Herold: The man without a certificate
  • 1954: Franz Josef Pootmann : murder of a dead person
  • 1954: Margarethe Herold: The bin with the frogs
  • 1954: Erich Brautlacht: Loyal to men in poste restante
  • 1954: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: Rudolf Winkler criminal case
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg : ... falls under bigamy
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: A clear case
  • 1954: Ernst Buchholz: The right to one's own image
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: 1.9 per mille
  • 1954: Erich Brautlacht: The fatal rays
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: Im Affekt
  • 1954: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: The man of honor and the thief
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: criminal record
  • 1954: Erich Brautlacht: Coupling
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: Buying a bicycle
  • 1954: Alexander Sternberg: Nocturnal visit
  • 1954: Willy Kleemann : A false twenties
  • 1954: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar: My son is no good
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Only four kilometers to the village
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Law and Justice
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Tragedy of Trust (Confessed)
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Disturbed consciousness?
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Law or Vengeance
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Suspicion is enough
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Without witnesses
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: The punishment before the act
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: The indiscreet landlady
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Fire series in the Rechlitz district
  • 1955: Erich Brautlacht: The swapped blood sample
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: A doctor between law and conscience
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Bribery
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Bad tongues
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: Line 77
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: The deadly syringe
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: The automatism fright
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Jutta and Michael
  • 1955: Henning Sengstack : The negotiated child
  • 1955: Alexander Sternberg: The picture on the desk
  • 1955: Willy Kleemann: Who gets Katharina
  • 1956: Alexander Sternberg: The locomotive in your pocket
  • 1956: Gerhard Schnitter : Assault in Julianstrasse
  • 1956: Henning Sengstack: Teaching has to be learned

As a speaker

  • 1924: Lancelot and Sandarein - Director: Unknown
  • 1924: Farewell Souper - Director: Unknown (2 live broadcasts)
  • 1924: Question to Fate - Director: Not known
  • 1924: Marriage proposal - Director: Unknown
  • 1924: A Wedding Evening - Director: Unknown
  • 1924: Leonce and Lena - Director: Not known
  • 1924: A Florentine Tragedy - Director: Unknown
  • 1924: The Game of Bethlehem - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Varieté - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: The Race with the Shadow - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Stella (also director)
  • 1925: The Exchange - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: The Times of Day of Love - Director: Not known
  • 1925: Clavigo - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Egmont (also director)
  • 1925: Turandot, Princess of China, a tragicomic fairy tale - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: The Auditor (also director)
  • 1925: The Flying Doctor - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: The Broken Krug - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: The Honeymoon - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Waldfrieden - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Der Strom - Director: Unknown
  • 1925: Fritzchen - Director: Not known
  • 1925: The Stranger (also director)
  • 1950: The Rumor - Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1951: The library of Professor Knesebeck - Director: Oskar Nitschke
  • 1951: F sharp with overtones - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1951: Die Quangels - Director: Oskar Nitschke - CD Edition: Osterwold 2015 (October)
  • 1952: Escape - Director: Peter Ebert
  • 1952: The Golden Pot - Director: Robert Vogel
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (consequence: the prosecutor becomes a defense attorney) (also director)
  • 1953: John Walker writes to his mother - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: Found Money - Director: Günter Siebert
  • 1955: Facades - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1956: On the green beach of the Spree : Part 3: The Bibiena Chronicle - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1956: Atomic secret traitor Bruno Pontecorvo - Director: Karl Ebert
  • 1957: Balance of one night - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1957: The intersection near Dresden - Director: Robert Vogel
  • 1958: Berlin - Alexanderplatz - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1958: Hudsonbai - Director: Mathias Neumann
  • 1958: The Lord from Another Star - Director: NN
  • 1959: Praterveilchen - Director: Wilm ten Haaf
  • 1959: Kriminalrat Obermoos tells (A brain teaser to guess) (4th to 6th part) - Author and director: Heinz-Otto Müller
  • 1959: Lumbago - author and director: Werner Illing
  • 1960: The Voice - Director: Mathias Neumann
  • 1960: The Old Ladies - Director: Peter Podehl
  • 1961: Kean or Genius and Passion - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1961: Smile, my friends - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1989: Mandala (radio play series) : Episode 10 - The Egyptian Riddle - Director: Klaus Prangenberg according to the booklet

literature

  • Our radio portrait (from: Funk um die Familie from August 6, 1950)
  • I want to see him! Gerd Fricke (from: HörZu No. 29 of July 13, 1952)
  • ARD radio play database (information on radio plays)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fricke, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play director, radio play speaker, radio presenter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1890
DATE OF DEATH after 1960