Gerhard F. Hering
Gerhard Friedrich Hering (born October 28, 1908 in Rogasen near Posen; † April 12, 1996 ) was a German journalist , director and theater manager .
life and work
He studied journalism, literature and theater studies in Berlin and Heidelberg, heard from Friedrich Gundolf and Karl Jaspers and graduated in 1932 with a doctorate. phil. from. From April 1933 he completed a one-year traineeship at the Magdeburgische Zeitung , which then took him over as head of its feature pages. In 1937 he became head of the arts section of the Kölnische Zeitung , until he was forced out of office by the Nazi regime in 1941 and banned from writing. Two years later, when he could not avoid this under a pseudonym, he turned to the theater and made his debut in Essen in 1943 with a production of Goethe's tragedy The Natural Daughter . The performance was banned immediately after the premiere, and the theater was destroyed in a bomb attack the following night.
After the war, Hering published the two-month publication Vision in Constance and was also chief dramaturge at the German Theater Heinz Hilperts, which was then based in Constance . Later he was director of the Otto Falckenberg School of the Munich Kammerspiele , chief dramaturge and director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , head of the WDR studio culture and finally from 1961 to 1971 as successor to Gustav Rudolf Sellner's artistic director at the Landestheater Darmstadt .
Here, as Georg Hensel wrote in an obituary , Hering brought the literary theater, which the young people had almost given up in favor of bloody realism, political topicality and pop culture, to a boom again. The director Hans Bauer , specialist in poetic and absurd theater , and the literarily well-versed dramaturge Hans-Joachim Weitz played a decisive role in this . The Landestheater Darmstadt was invited to the first Berlin Theatertreffen in 1964 with a production by Herings, and in the following year by Hans Bauer. The German premiere of Genet's Die Neger , directed by Herings, in Darmstadt in 1964 , against which the author protested because the play was written for black actors and not for white people with black make-up, also caused a stir . There is a television recording of this production. In 1968 the German Academy for Language and Poetry accepted Hering as a full member.
After his time director in Darmstadt, he worked as a freelance director especially on the up in 1977 by Gerhard Klingenberg led Burgtheater operates. For special services to the work of Franz Grillparzer , he was awarded the Grillparzer Ring , donated by the Austrian Ministry of Education in 1964 . A severe eye condition that had already bothered him around 1970 led to complete blindness in the last years of his life.
Filmography
- 1959: Peterchens Mondfahrt (direction and screenplay) - TV film
- 1965: The Candidate (translation) - TV film
- 1966: Der Neger (director) - TV movie
Radio plays
- 1955: Three-Minute Games (based on Thornton Wilder ) (narrator and radio play adaptation) - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann
- 1957: Fontane on a bridal show (author and director)
- 1957: The most charming of all ministers - original radio play (author) - director: Robert Vogel
- 1957: Achim and Bettina (author) - director: not known
- 1957: Das Band (based on August Strindberg ) (director)
- 1957: King David (Director)
- 1963: Diner at Calpurnia / Lucullus (director)
- 1963: After the Elektra des Euripides (director)
- 1963: The Rehearsal (Director)
Web links
- Gerhard F. Hering in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Gerhard F. Hering in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Vita Huber-Hering, Straight through time Gerhard F. Hering 100 years: writer, director, JustusLiebig Verlag Darmstadt
- ^ The Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg lists six productions by Hering at the Stuttgart State Theater: 1952 Die Geschwister (by Hans Christian Branner ), 1953 Rosamunde Floris (by Georg Kaiser ), A brotherly dispute in Habsburg , Minna von Barnhelm , 1954 The Erbin , 1956 Escape to the Sea (by Robert Hill). https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?Stock=21219&klassi=&angeboteKlassi=005
- ↑ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Yearbook 1996, page 186 ff.
- ↑ GENET. Hour of the negro . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1964 ( online - June 10, 1964 ).
- ↑ The negro. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ a b hoerspiele.dra.de
- ↑ a b c d hoerspiele.dra.de
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SURNAME | Hering, Gerhard F. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hering, Gerhard Friedrich (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, director and theater manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rogasen near Poznan |
DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1996 |