Gerd von Hassler

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Gerd von Haßler (born August 28, 1928 , † January 7, 1989 ; actually Hans Leo Gerd von Haßler zu Roseneckh ) was a German author , director , radio play speaker , composer , singer , journalist and producer .

Life

Gerd von Haßler was born in or near Augsburg . One of his ancestors was the musician and organist Hans Leo Haßler . At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the Second World War as a minesweeper , but soon broke away from the ideology of National Socialism and deserted.

After the war he studied literature , music and early history and lived in Frankfurt am Main from 1953 to 1963 . Camillo Felgen , who later became the presenter of the hit show “ Games without Borders ”, recognized his journalistic talent and brought him to Radio Luxemburg , where von Haßler was among other things entrusted with the conception of the “ Golden Lion ” award .

In 1963 von Haßler moved with his first wife and three children to the media city of Hamburg , where he wrote columnist articles and film reviews as a freelance writer . Among other things, his reports appeared in “ Welt ”, Welt am Sonntag and in Spiegel .

It was more as a by-product of this work that he began the activity for which he was to become famous: He wrote children's radio plays, with his main focus being on Punch and Judy stories in which he himself played the leading roles of Punch, Seppl , the “Little Hedgehog ” and many others others spoke more. In addition to von Haßler, various German actors and cabaret artists worked on these around forty Kasper long-playing records, including Ingrid Ohlenschläger (1926–1999), Jens Kiehn (†), Heinz Fabian , Ursula Graeff , Eva Zlonitzki , Hella von der Osten-Sacken , Karin Lieneweg and Gisela Engelhardt . The records have been published by a wide variety of labels such as EUROPA , maritim , BASF , Metronom or in the Perl series . A special feature of these recordings is that they were created without a fixed text , i.e. only on the basis of an exposé by Haßler; the actors - just like von Haßler himself - had to improvise along the given storyline during the recording .

In addition to the puppet stories, he wrote and produced a good thirty other radio plays for children and young people, for example based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm , stories from 1001 nights or stories by Karl May , but also science fiction radio plays such as Visit from Space .

In addition, he produced a total of 27 records with music composed or arranged by him: shanties , student songs , folk music and children's songs . On some of them Gerd von Haßler can be heard under the pseudonym - or better: his alternative name - Hans Roseneckh as a singer with a deep voice (and in excellent English), for example on the LP Auf high See together with Jörn Harder .

He was also involved in local politics in Hamburg on the side. In 1966 he ran against Erik Blumenfeld for the post of chairman of the Hamburg regional association of the CDU , but narrowly lost this election.

From the end of the 1970s he became increasingly involved in journalism and wrote five lavish popular science books between 1976 and 1987, often with an ecological accent.

In the 1980s , von Haßler, who had previously lived in Lütjensee near Hamburg, and his second wife Yasmine moved back to his home in Bavaria , first to Ampfing , then later to Mettenheim . From there, he was involved in a project called Public Company to secure the future : After the Chernobyl disaster he wanted on a sprawling territory in Bavaria a "refuge area" for humans and animals modeled after the ark built. The Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss ( CSU ) was enthusiastic about this company.

But the implementation of this project was no longer to come because Gerd von Haßler died at the age of 60 on January 7, 1989 of pancreatic cancer .

His children's radio plays, especially the puppet records, enjoy great popularity as antiquarian collector's items to this day.

Fonts

  • Noah's Path to the Amazon , 1976
  • Mysterious Knowledge , 1977
  • When the Earth Overturns , 1981
  • World without an emergency exit , 1984
  • Man's foolish fear of the future , 1987

swell

  • Collection of Gerd von Haßler's puppet radio plays in the puppet theater collection of Gerd J. Pohl

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personal data
SURNAME Hassler, Gerd von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haßler zu Roseneckh, Hans Leo Gerd von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director, radio play speaker, composer, journalist and producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1928
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1989