Gernot Weitzl
Gernot Weitzl (born October 26, 1925 in Wiener Neustadt ; † November 30, 2004 in Brietlingen ) was a German director and radio editor; he was the inventor of the radio series Neues from Waldhagen .
Life
Gernot Weitzl put 1943 Notabitur and was immediately afterwards to Wehrmacht confiscated. During the war he was taken prisoner by the British and was released in the summer of 1945. In 1946 he began studying pedagogy at the Kant University of Braunschweig and graduated in 1948 with the 1st state examination. After working as a primary school teacher, he passed the 2nd state examination in 1951 and initially worked as an editor in the school radio department of the North West German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR).
On November 11, 1955, the NDR broadcasters broadcast the program Neues aus Waldhagen for the first time , "whose idea was Gernot Weitzl". In the course of his further activity, Weitzl also took over the direction of several radio plays.
Gernot Weitzl died on November 30, 2004 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Direction - radio play (selection)
- 1958: A thoughtless purchase (1st part) - with Karl Otto Ragotzky and Hilde Sicks
- 1958: A rare find (1st part: Who owns the treasure?) - with Carl Voscherau
- 1958: a rare find (part 2: traces of the past)
Publications (selection)
- Gernot Weitzl: Thinking exercises as an educational tool. On the school radio series "Neues aus Waldhagen" of the North German Radio , in: Rundfunk und Fernsehen, Vol. 14 (1966), pp. 378-380.
- Hans-Eberhard Zaunitzer, Gernot Weitzl: The European Community, school radio. Norddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Lübeck 1966.
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Start of the school radio series “News from Waldhagen”. 2010.
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): 25 years of school radio , Hamburg 1970.
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): Here is the school radio of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Hamburg 1962.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weitzl, Gernot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio editor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 2004 |
| Place of death | Brietlingen |