Gerda von Uslar

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Gerda von Uslar (* 1909 in Bad Elster ; † September 1966 in Bern ) was a German dramaturge , translator and radio play director .

Life

Gerda von Uslar was the daughter of a doctor. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, she finished a language course in Hamburg and then worked at the Ibero-American Institute there before going to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus as a lecturer . She then moved to the Junge Theater as a dramaturge before she got a job at what was then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk at the end of the 1940s . Here she initially worked as a radio play dramaturge, later she worked in the recording management and as a radio play director.

In addition, Gerda von Uslar translated and edited plays, books and radio plays from French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and English into German. One of her most famous works was the translation of the novel The War of the Buttons by the French writer Louis Pergaud .

Gerda von Uslar was an aunt of the philosopher and psychologist Detlev von Uslar . She died at the age of 57 from a heart attack in a hotel room in Bern during negotiations with a publisher in Switzerland.

Radio play work

As a processor (word)

As a translator from French

  • 1949: Flight over Siberia - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1949: The strange adventure of Mr. Biche - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: The Dead Queen - Director: Ulrich Erfurth
  • 1951: Star of the Seas - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1951: Merlette - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1952: Association for Little Freedom - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1960: Conversation in the Park - Director: Hans-Dieter Schwarze
  • 1961: Sodom and Gomorrah - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1965: Rien pour rien - Director: Wolfgang Spier

As a translator from Japanese

  • 1958: Two modern Nô games - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1958: The Dream Pillow - Director: Carl Nagel
  • 1960: Face in the Mirror - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1961: The exchanged subjects - Director: Hans-Dieter Schwarze
  • 1961: The Hundredth Night - Director: Hans-Dieter Schwarze

As a translator from English

  • 1960: View over the fence - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1960: The Gates of Summer - Director: not known

As a director

  • 1949: The Hour of Recognition - Author: Arthur Schnitzler
  • 1954: Resolved in the family council - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
  • 1955: Do written with "h" - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
  • 1955: The Stolen Muse - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
  • 1955: It's not just clothes that make the man - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
  • 1955: Madame Bovary from Montparnasse - Author: Peter Alten
  • 1955: The Star of Constantine / Winding Paths - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
  • 1956: He and you or Why it is not only women who find it difficult to be objective - Author: Marianne Eichholz
  • 1957: Murder in Badalona (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Heinz Dunkhase
  • 1957: Moselle trip - Author: Walter Teich
  • 1958: The island of the burning mountains - Author: Walter Teich
  • 1960: Panic in Pearson (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Jochen Schöberl
  • 1960: The perfect alibi (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Jochen Schöberl
  • 1960: The arsonist (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Irmgard Wolffheim
  • 1961: Murder on Demand (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Hellmut Kleffel
  • 1961: The photo competition (from the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Author: Irmgard Köster

As a spokeswoman

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The article in which the Hamburger Abendblatt reports on Gerda von Uslar's death is dated September 22, 1966. The exact date of death is not given, but it should be in September.
  2. ↑ a b Ilse Höger: A rich life has died out. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 22, 1966. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Detlev von Uslar: Snapshots. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4826-5 , p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Uslar, Gerda von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, translator and radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Elster
DATE OF DEATH September 1966
Place of death Bern