Gerhard Rentzsch

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Gerhard Rentzsch (born April 24, 1926 in Leipzig ; † June 1, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German dramaturge and radio play author . He is considered the doyen of DDR - radio play .

Gerhard Rentzsch in a portrait photo (probably in the mid-1960s) from his private estate.
Gerhard Rentzsch (left) with his radio play dramaturge colleague Siegfried Pfaff in the Funkhaus Nalepastraße.

Live and act

Gerhard Rentzsch was born on Saturday, April 24, 1926 in Leipzig as the son of a milk driver, trained as a carpenter and later a locksmith at the tool machine factory Pittler AG and began studying at the Leipzig engineering school in 1941 , from which he earned half a degree in 1943 Was drafted into the Navy year before graduation. After the Second World War and British imprisonment, Gerhard Rentzsch attended the bookselling college from 1946 to 1947 and then the teacher training institute in his hometown.

In June 1948, when he was noticeable as a young author, he was asked to go to the literature department of the Leipzig broadcaster, where he worked with Heinz Rusch , Georg Maurer and Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß . In 1951 he moved to the radio play department at the request of the then head dramaturge Gerhard W. Menzel .

When the government of the GDR set up a “State Committee for Radio” in Berlin, Rentzsch went to the capital in 1952 and in 1957 became chief dramaturge in the central radio play department. After the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee in December 1965, Gerhard Rentzsch was replaced as chief dramaturge in 1966 for political reasons, but continued to work as a dramaturge in the radio play department until 1990. From 1990 to 1991 he was the editor and initiator of the Liebes Volk! at Sachsen Radio in Leipzig.

In his work as an author and dramaturge for story-telling, well-crafted pieces, Gerhard Rentzsch is considered the nestor and “doyen” of the GDR radio play, which has remained true to his principles in the work of the 1990s.

Gerhard Rentzsch was married to the radio broadcaster Vera Fritzsche (* 1927), also from Leipzig, since 1952. The twins Maria and Anne (* 1960) emerged from the marriage. He died at the age of 77 on June 1, 2003 in Berlin.

Radio plays (selection)

Broadcasting of the GDR

  • The Skadar Lake Railway (1950)
  • Douglas Natherlee (1950)
  • A ship goes to Marseille (1951)
  • We from Hamburg (1951)
  • Ol 'Man River (1952)
  • Kachibo (1954)
  • Beacon by: Robert Ardrey : - Director (1956)
  • Valdosta Lake (1957)
  • Santa Claus lives behind the moon - author together with: Walter Karl Schweickert - director: Herwart Grosse (children's radio play - Berliner Rundfunk - 1957)
  • Soldier's Street (1957)
  • Der Fall van der Lubbe - Author together with: Karl Wagert : - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds (Berliner Rundfunk - 1958)
  • The Porter (1959)
  • Indian Summer (1960, as an unfinished DEFA feature film 1961/62, also available in a radio play co-production BR / hr 1965, and as a play 1969) and as a radio play: Director: Hans Knötzsch
  • Night Train - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (1962)
  • The Story of a Mantle (1963, as a television play entitled Das Rad , 1979)
  • My father Eddi (1966, as a television play 1969)
  • At the fountain in front of the gate (1968)
  • Das Amulett (radio play novel (6 parts) - Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse , 1971 as a television film under the title * Aller Liebe Anfang , 1972)
  • The Real Blue (after Anna Seghers) (1974)
  • The Legacy - Director: Joachim Staritz (1975), as a television play in 1978
  • Pocket games (after Karel Capek) (1977)
  • Walter Mitty's Secret Life (based on James Thurber) (1977)
  • The Almanac (1978) - Director: Walter Niklaus
  • Two on one roof (together with Heinz Pech, 1979)
  • That was - this is a radio play; Witnesses and testimonies from three decades , eight episodes, manuscript of episodes 1-4 (1979)
  • The Hook (1980) - directed by Barbara Plensat , as a television play in 1985
  • Second from the left (1982)
  • Feuersteine (together with Hans Siebe , 1985)
  • Bienchen's Relatives (1985)
  • Can I go to Napoleon again? Afternoon Chats on Sankt Helena (1985) - Director: Joachim Staritz
  • Moments (1989)
  • Moments II ( Funkhaus Berlin 1990)
  • Moments III (Funkhaus Berlin 1991)
  • Billiards (after Wladimir Gubarew, Sachsen Radio 1991)
  • Traudel and Luise (Funkhaus Berlin / SachsenRadio / BR 1991)

ARD and DeutschlandRadio

  • Moments IV (DS-Kultur / BR 1992)
  • Schdille bisde (after Fitzgerald Kusz, MDR 1992)
  • The branch (based on Adam Bodor, MDR 1993)
  • The life of Brian Piltchard (DLR 1994)
  • Once again: Traudel and Luise - three years later (DLR 1995)
  • Bauern, Bonzen, Bomben (after Hans Fallada in 15 episodes, MDR 1997 - as an audio book at Osterwoldaudio, Hamburg 2012 ISBN 9783869521237 )
  • Moments V (MDR 1998)
  • Moments VI (MDR 2001)
  • Moments VII - Scenes from Germany, posthumous compilation: (Rundfunk der DDR 1989 / Funkhaus Berlin 1990/1991 / DS-Kultur / BR 1992 / MDR 1998/2001/2010)

Television (selection)

  • My father Eddi (1968)
  • All Love Begins (1973)
  • Gray Heron (1977)
  • The Stone (1977)
  • Fahrspuren (1977), 54th episode in the series The Public Prosecutor has the floor , on DVD: The Public Prosecutor has the floor - Box 4: 1977–1978, 4 DVDs, Icestorm 2013
  • The Estate (1978)
  • Youth consecration (1978)
  • The Wheel (1979)
  • On the gray beach, on the gray sea (based on Theodor Storm's novella Hans and Heinz Kirch , 1980, on DVD Icestorm 2013)
  • Der Schimmelreiter (after Theodor Storm 1984, on DVD Icestorm 2010)
  • The Hook (1985)
  • Sidonie's Pictures (1987)
  • Immensee (after Theodor Storm 1989, on DVD Icestorm 2011) all productions DFF and television of the GDR.

Radio feature (selection)

  • You, my dear people! (Saxony Radio 1991)
  • 152 (MDR 1993)
  • They played ragtime - Die Titanic-Legende (MDR 1997, also as audio book D> A <V 2000, ISBN 9783898130790 )

Book publications (selection)

  • The little radio play book . Henschelverlag , Berlin 1960.
  • Dialogues . Edited together with Klaus Helbig. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1966.
  • The Almanac and other stories for the radio , containing: The Almanac , The Stone , Jugendweihe , Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, and The Legacy . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1980.
  • Dear people! Speaking time for radio listeners . (together with Ulrich Griebel ) Documentation of a series of broadcasts by SachsenRadio and MDR Kultur 1990–1994, MDR 1995, ISBN 9783980477307 .

Prices

  • Lessing Prize of the GDR 1965.
  • Art Prize of the FDGB 1971 (together with Wolfgang Beck ) for The Amulet .
  • Radio Play Prize of the GDR - Radio Play Prize of the Critics 1979 for The Almanach .
  • National Prize III. 1980 art and literature class.
  • Radio play award of the GDR - radio play award of the listeners and critics 1986 for Bienchens relatives .
  • "White dove" - ​​main prize of the III. 1986 OIRT radio play festival for Bienchens relatives .
  • Radio Play Prize of the GDR - Radio Play Prize of the Listeners 1991 for Moments II .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Rentzsch in WHO'S WHO
  2. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel, June 3, 2003, media
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, 24/2003, p. 178
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, June 4, 2003, p. 9
  5. ^ My seventh October , radio portrait, Broadcasting of the GDR 1989, broadcast manuscript, records in the German Broadcasting Archive, Potsdam-Babelsberg
  6. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wagner: The good will to create something new. The radio play program in Germany from 1945 to 1949 . Potsdam: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 1997
  7. ↑ Jochen Hauser : Discussion futile , FF here 21/2014, p. 7
  8. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Radio Play Lexicon . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Constance 2005
  9. ^ Valeria Heintges: Poetic or realistic radio play. Comparative studies on the work of Günter Eich and Gerhard Rentzsch , master's thesis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, 1994
  10. ^ Obituaries in June . DLF radio play calendar / archive / contribution from June 14, 2003
  11. ↑ Reprinted in Hörspieljahrbuch 1 , pp. 27–57, Henschelverlag Berlin 1961
  12. ↑ Film database of the DEFA Foundation ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / defa-stiftung.de
  13. ^ Sibylle Bolik: The radio play in the GDR - themes and tendencies, Peter Lang GmbH, European publishing house of the sciences, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 314
  14. ^ Reprinted in: Hörspiele 3 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1963, pp. 116-133
  15. ^ Reprinted in: Hörspiele 4 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1964, pp. 117–152
  16. ^ Reprinted in: Hörspiele 7 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1967, pp. 55–95
  17. ↑ Reprinted in: Bread and Salt , 15 radio plays from the 1970s, ed. Bernd Schirmer, Reclam Leipzig, pp. 253-283
  18. ^ Reprinted in: Bienchens Relatives , radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1987, pp. 13–37
  19. ^ Reprinted in: Traumreise , radio plays, Henschelverlag Berlin 1991, pp. 83-109
  20. ^ Stefan Bodo Würffel: Radio plays from the GDR, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  21. ^ Lexicon of German-language writers, 20th century, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1993, p. 600
  22. ↑ Bienchens Relatives , radio plays, ed. Christa Vetter, Henschelverlag Berlin 1987, ISBN 9783362001649
  23. ^ Sibylle Bolik: The radio play in the GDR - themes and tendencies , Peter Lang GmbH, European publishing house of the sciences, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 298ff
personal data
SURNAME Rentzsch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2003
Place of death Berlin