Giselher Schaar

Giselher Schaar (* 12. August 1934 in Königsberg / East Prussia ; † 29. April 2001 in Hannover ) was a German radio - journalist at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), author of the Expo 2000 and, among other collectors of old silver cans and silver cases .

Live and act

Born at the time of National Socialism in the capital of the then German province of East Prussia, Giselher Schaar fled “from his homeland ” as a child in the middle of World War II in 1944. From 1945 he attended school first in Celle and then in Hanover, where his father lived Professor of Psychology, worked in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education . In 1956 Giselher Schaar passed his Abitur at the Kaiser Wilhelm High School (KWG).

Schaar studied law at the University of Göttingen , the University of Munich and the University of Vienna and meanwhile worked as a student as a freelancer for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . As such, he began his career at the NDR at the time of the economic miracle , after returning to Hanover in the late 1950s.

For the premiere of the German first broadcast of the court series The TV Tribunal meets on March 26, 1961, as a reporter, during the breaks between the sessions , Schaar asked the “audience in the hall, who were initially played by professional actors, about their opinion on the current case”.

"Mathilde" shaft of the Lengede-Broistedt iron ore mine at the time of the accident

Giselher Schaar became known nationwide at the latest since October and November 1963, when he reported on the Lengede mine accident . The gathered media crowd had sometimes outbid each other with offers to the miners for exclusive rights to documentation . In the meantime, the team from the radio house in Hanover of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), including Schaar, had given the mining company's plant management a complete outside broadcast vehicle including an operating team. This enabled "[...] the conversations of the trapped miners with their rescuers and their family members ..." to be recorded on tapes . And for this, too, representatives of the illustrated newspapers offered "between 20,000 and 100,000 marks ". Since the Bild-Zeitung troop proved to be particularly persistent in the race for the commercial exploitation of the tapes , Giselher Schaar invented the fairy tale "of the budgerigars who were among the eleven trapped in the cave " exclusively for the "Bild" reporter Horst Wolf The 60-meter level had been lowered. ”And so the“ Miracle of Lengede ”became“ reality ”in a very peculiar way: The very next day the“ Bild ”newspaper reported on the“ 'from the ancient Egyptians . .. often practiced custom 'to take birds into the depths of the mines to explore unknown air gaps. ”And apparently“ Bild ”was there when“ the unbelievable happened: after two hours the first of the 15 budgerigars rose from a 70 meters away Air shaft in the middle of the field and flew away. "

Giselher Schaar was a different kind of “ buddy ” for the cabaret artist Dietrich Kittner : When Queen Elisabeth II of Great Britain and her husband Prince Philip visited the Lower Saxony state government and the state capital on May 27, 1965 , Kittner and Schaar drove in separate cars , Schaar as a reporter on the roof of a "VW-Bullis" , the escort through Hanover in advance.

Later moderated Schaar many years various NDR broadcasts, for example, between Hamburg and Haiti , radio pictures from Lower Saxony or trade journal .

Another live broadcast by Giselher Schaar was, for example, a report on June 10, 1969 from Steintorplatz in Hanover on the occasion of a protest demonstration against the fare increases by the Üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe , which became known as the Red Dot Campaign.

The " Apollo Theater " in Linden , for the purchase of which Schaar his friend Flebbe supported

Giselher Schaar was friends with Hans-Joachim Flebbe , whom he supported in buying the Apollo cinema in Linden .

As a member of the supervisory board of the Lower Saxony casinos Hannover / Bad Pyrmont GmbH , Schaar was involved in the so-called " casino affair " from 1987 to 1988 .

In preparation for the Expo 2000 , Schaar wrote the illustrated book Hannover - Expo-Stadt in 1997 in teamwork with the photographer Hassan Mahramzadeh .

Schaar was a cat lover, fan of rare sports cars and a passionate collector: a few years before his death, the Kestner Museum and the Historical Museum on the Hohen Ufer showed around 600 exhibits from Schaar's collection of silver boxes and cases in a special exhibition .

Schaar once judged the Lower Saxony and Hanoverians:

"The nature of the Lower Saxony and therefore also of the Hanoverians does not tend towards escapades , manifestations of a baroque attitude towards life and exaggerations of any kind."

Giselher Schaar was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Fonts

• Giselher Schaar (text), Hassan Mahramzadeh (photos): Hanover - City of EXPO 2000 , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997, ISBN 3-87706-828-6 ; contents
  • English edition: Giselher Schaar (text), Hassan Mahramzadeh (photo): Hanover - EXPO 2000 city , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997, ISBN 3-87706-831-6
• Giselher Schaar (text): Hanover. The current business guide. Business, Holiday, nightlife , Munich: Ed. Gallas, 2000, ISBN 3-933573-04-1
  • English edition: Hanover. up-to-date business guide. business, holiday, nightlife , Munich: Ed. Gallas, 2000, ISBN 3-933573-27-0

literature

• Wolfgang Schepers , Claudia M. Caspers (collaborators), Olaf Tessmer (photos): "Boxes, boxes, boxes ..." The Giselher Schaar silver collection , accompanying document for the exhibition in the Kestner Museum from August 12 to November 14, 1999, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Kestner Museum, Hanover: Kestner Museum, 1999, ISBN 3-924029-29-6
• Hugo Thielen : SCHAAR, Giselher. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 308f .; online through google books
• Hugo Thielen: Schaar, Giselher. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 335f.

Web links

• Mirko Smiljanic : Declared dead, but not given up / 50 years ago, the rescue of eleven miners kept all of Germany in suspense , report from October 24, 2013 on the Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcaster with quotes from Schaar on the deutschlandradiokultur.de website (about 6 minutes)
• Max Schautzer , Thomas Christes : “Hello Hanover!”: The legendary NDR man Giselher Schaar (“Gescha”) is in despair during a switch to Polish Posen. A hilarious situation from radio times long past on the radiopannen.de site ; on-line
• Giselher Schaar: Protests against fare increases Aktion der Rote Punkt [...] , audio recording of a live report from Hanover by Giselher Schaar, broadcast in the NDR Umschau on the evening of June 10, 1969 via NDR 1 Lower Saxony ; online (approx. 2 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Hugo Thielen: SCHAAR ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ Armin Grief (responsible): The television court meets / D 1961–1978 on the page fernsehserien.de , last accessed on October 26, 2014
4. ↑ NN : LENGEDE / reward of fear / PRESS. In: Der Spiegel from November 20, 1963; last accessed online on October 26, 2014
5. ↑ ^{a b} Hartmut Heinze: An escort for the Queen .... In: Hello ... from November 24, 2011; online ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. last accessed on October 26, 2014 
6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1965. In: Hannover Chronik , here: p. 258; online through google books
7. ↑ Giselher Schaar: Protests against fare increases ... (see the section on web links )
8. ↑ ^{a b} Quote from Peter Struck : Hanover in 3 days. An entertaining city guide , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-659-9 , p. 9; online through google books