Gustav Burmester (director)

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Gustav Burmester (born December 14, 1904 in Hamburg , † July 6, 1978 ) was a German actor , but above all a television and radio play director .

biography

After graduating from school, he learned the trade of a businessman. He worked in this subject until 1927. He started taking acting lessons in 1925 and then worked as an actor and director in various smaller theaters. He had to give up these activities in the war year 1941, as he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

Burmester worked from July 1945, first as a speaker, then as head of the occupation and production office at Funkhaus Hamburg. He became the first television game editor and from 1961 until his retirement in 1970 he was employed as a director in the main television game department of the NDR . He completed all directing work and occasional appearances as an actor, sometimes even after retirement, at NWRV Hamburg and what would later become NDR.

Awards as a radio play director

He also made a name for himself as a director of radio plays at the NWDR . In 1946 he directed his first radio play: Treasure Island with Hardy Krüger as Jim Hawkins. In 1953 Burmester received the renowned war blind radio play award for Günter Eich's play The Others and Me . Cläre Schimmel produced the text for the SDR in parallel . Four years later, in 1957, he received the same price for the breakdown of Friedrich Dürrenmatt . In 1958 he produced for the NDR Verwehte traces of Hans Rothe (1,894 to 1,963), a radio play by 55 minutes. The subject matter dealt with in it, which can easily be interpreted as a justification for the Nazi euthanasia program , was actually notorious because of the Nazi film adaptation of 1938. At that time, Veit Harlan had reworked Rothes model into a film script with the National Socialist Thea von Harbou and with Felix Lützkendorf .

Filmography

As a director

  • 1956: Thérèse Raquin - TV
  • 1957: The hostel - TV
  • 1958: Moment of Truth - TV
  • 1959: Blooming Dreams - TV
  • 1961: Unfortunate Summer - TV
  • 1961: An eyewitness - TV
  • 1962: Fiftieth birthday - TV
  • 1963: Stalingrad - TV
  • 1963: You can't scratch your heart - TV
  • 1963: What's going to happen, Harry? - TV
  • 1964: Campsite TV
  • 1967: The Bicycle TV
  • 1970: Thomas Chatterton - TV

As an actor

Radio plays

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ Blown tracks. In: hoerspielkrimi.net. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ online, by Hans Schmidt
personal data
SURNAME Burmester, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, but above all a television and radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1978