Gerhard F. Hering

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita Huber-Hering, Straight through time Gerhard F. Hering 100 years: writer, director, JustusLiebig Verlag Darmstadt
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Yearbook 1996, page 186 ff.
  4. ↑ GENET. Hour of the negro . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1964 ( online - June 10, 1964 ).
  5. ↑ The negro. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b hoerspiele.dra.de
  7. ↑ a b c d hoerspiele.dra.de
personal data
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