Hanns Anselm Perten

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Hanns Anselm Perten 1982

Hanns Anselm Perten (born August 12, 1917 in Schleusenau near Bromberg (today: Bydgoszcz , Poland), † November 29, 1985 in Rostock ) was an actor , director and theater manager in the GDR .

Life

Hanns Anselm Perten was born Johannes Franz Piotrowski as the son of the innkeeper couple Franz Simon and Helene Piotrowski in Schleusenau, today a district of Bydgoszcz in Poland. The father was a member of the SPD and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In 1919 the parents moved to Hamburg. Here the father took over an inn after having worked briefly for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The bar served as a party venue for the SPD and the Reichsbanner until 1935. In 1924 Johannes Piotrowski started school and in 1928 he switched to the Catholic High School in Hamburg . In 1934 he finished school with the certificate of the 10th grade and in 1935 began an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt in Hamburg. From 1936 Johannes Piotrowski attended evening courses at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and was a guest student at the University of Hamburg in newspaper studies, art and literary history. The first drawings and a large number of poems were created in the 1930s. In 1938 Piotrowski was released without notice from the Hanseatic Publishing House for an offense against the treachery law and was briefly imprisoned for a few weeks in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , which at that time served as a police prison. After his release he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was employed as a clerk in Stettin , where he met Henny Wilke in August 1939 . While working in the attack on Poland , Johannes Piotrowski was wounded and after his stay in the hospital was classified as no longer fit for use in the war. He was used in the General Command in Stettin.

Henny Wilke's father refused a connection between his daughter and Piotrowski, partly because of the Polish-sounding name. During his home leave in Hamburg, Johannes Piotrowski asked his father to agree to the name change. In 1940 he had his name and that of his son changed to Perten . He borrowed it from a label on furniture vans from the Pertenreiter company that caught his eye in Hamburg . At the beginning of December 1941, Johannes Perten and Henny Wilke married in the Catholic Church in Hamburg-Hamm. At the beginning of 1942, Perten was transferred back to Stettin and the couple moved to Greifenhagen in West Pomerania. Their son Hanns-Rainer was born in October 1942. Johannes Perten was posted to Romania and later to Rowno .

When Hamburg was badly destroyed during Operation Gomorrah in the summer of 1943 , the Pertens parents lost their business and apartment on July 28th. They found temporary accommodation with the Wilke family in Stettin. In 1944, the Pertens parents took over the train station restaurant in Boizenburg / Elbe in Mecklenburg .

The Johannes Pertens office was relocated to Neustrelitz . As in Szczecin, he often went to theater performances here. So he got to know the actor Josef van Santen and his wife Anny von Orelli . He told van Santen that he wanted to become an actor himself. Van Santen was impressed by Perten's enthusiasm for the theater and invited him to his apartment. Here and on long walks he laid the first foundations for Pertens acting. In April 1944 he obtained the professional license of the Reichstheaterkammer as an actor and got his first engagement at the Neustrelitzer Theater . In the spring of 1945 he was drafted into the artillery again and was taken prisoner near Tangermünde , from which he was released on August 27, 1945 because of his poor health. He went to Hamburg, where he hoped for the resumption of theater operations.

The comedy in Altona , which belonged to the Good Templar Order , was reopened on December 30, 1945 and Perten got an engagement. In February 1946 he moved to the Hamburger Volkstheater. One advantage for Johannes Perten was the versatility of the demands on the actors. The repertoire included drama, opera and operetta and the actors had to switch between the branches. In addition, there were long guest tours in which the ensemble had to take care of all the work, from performing on stage, setting up and dismantling the stage, organizing the trip, etc. Perten had the opportunity to change direction during a tour of Schleswig-Holstein. During this time he joined the KPD and founded the drama collective Die Laternenanzünder of the KPD district association Wasserkante . This cabaret gave Perten the opportunity to develop his skills as a writer, actor and director.

Perten became a delegate of the 1st culture conference of the KPD in Neumünster and represented the KPD in the committee for civic education as a member of the zone advisory board of the British military government . During this time he also worked as a freelance critic for the KPD newspaper Hamburger Volkszeitung .

In December 1946 Hanns Anselm Perten went to the Soviet occupation zone in Boizenburg / Elbe. The KPD Wasserkante recommended Willi Bredel , the founder of the Kulturbund in Mecklenburg, to use Perten for “higher tasks”. This joined the SED and he was entrusted with the management of the puppet theater, the cabaret Die Lunte and the Kammerspiele of the Kulturbund in Schwerin.

He later became head of the theater section in the Kulturbund. His tasks included the organization of theater performances, financial issues, programming and even the organization of vacation stays for the artists on the Baltic coast in Ahrenshoop . This section had an important sub-organization, the Pre-Censorship Commission . This was responsible for the approval of pieces and manuscripts after consultation with the Soviet military administration. This enabled the Kulturbund to create a style and taste. Hanns Anselm Perten also worked as an editor for the Mecklenburg magazine of the Kulturbund; he wrote several articles on different subjects. There were also reviews, articles and poems in the Schweriner Landes-Zeitung , the Tälichen Rundschau in Berlin and in the Ostseezeitung Rostock. On September 1, 1947, Perten was appointed artistic director of the regional broadcaster in Schwerin. For this station he wrote short scenes, comments and reviews. He was one of the founding members of the Society for the Study of the Culture of the Soviet Union , which later became the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . To support this society, the Maxim-Gorki-Bühne was founded in 1948 , and Perten became its deputy director. With the performance of classic Russian and Soviet contemporary and revolutionary pieces, reservations about these pieces in the population should be reduced. As director of the house and deputy director, Perten had great difficulties because of “human weaknesses”, and there were “many complaints from leading comrades”.


He later worked as artistic director in Wismar for four years and also held cultural offices until his death.

His work for the Rostock Volkstheater (1952 to 1985), which he made known beyond the borders of the GDR, has not been forgotten . He is considered to be the creator of the Störtebeker Festival in Ralswiek on Rügen , but also repeatedly worked as an actor and director for radio and television .

Hanns Anselm Perten had one of the most interesting programs in the GDR at the Rostock Theater. Pieces were performed here that were not or were not allowed to be played in the entire GDR.

The Volkstheater in Rostock became the home stage for the playwright Peter Weiss . For Rolf Hochhuth , Hans Werner Henze and others, Perten was a kind of father. Many plays by these authors were premiered or premiered in Rostock.

The theater in Rostock became the most important travel theater in the GDR - especially after West Germany.

From 1970 to 1972 he was director of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

From 1954 until her death in 1984 Hanns Anselm Perten was married to the actress Christine van Santen .

The circumstances of Perten's death have not yet been clearly clarified. His corpse was exhumed in the 2000s because it was suspected that someone had acted or committed suicide.

Awards

Filmography

actor

Director

theatre

Director

Text book for the GDR's cheerful music theater

  • A woman who likes , operetta - music by Gerhard Großkopf - text book by Hanns Anselm Perten - premiere: September 25, 1954, Theater Schwerin and others.

literature

  • Hanns Anselm Perten: Valse Melancolique - poems . Edited by Michael Stefan Pietschmann. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-4674-4 .
  • Renate Meyer-Braun: Holes in the Iron Curtain. Theater exchange between Bremen and Rostock during the Cold War (1956–1961). A piece of German-German post-war history. trafo, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89626-678-1 .
  • Michael Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten. Life and work of a theater man in the mirror of the GDR cultural history. University of Rostock, Rostock (dissertation) 2003.
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten. Life and work of a theater man in the mirror of the GDR cultural history. mbv, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96729-011-0 .
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 .
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten and Peter Weiss. Letters. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-5907-2 .
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten, Günter Kochan and Kuba (Kurt Barthel). On the history of the Störtebeker Festival on the island of Rügen. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-6356-7 .
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten and Bertolt Brecht. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-6386-4 .
  • Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Artist friendships: Hanns Anselm Perten, Rolf Hochhuth and Hans Werner Henze. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-6226-3 .
  • Renate Rätz, Leonore Krenzlin :  Perten, Hanns Anselm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 2-6
  2. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 7-8
  3. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 9-15
  4. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 16-19
  5. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 21-28
  6. ↑ Michael Stefan Pietschmann: Hanns Anselm Perten - A life for the theater. An artist biography. Tectum, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4381-3 . Pp. 28-30
personal data
SURNAME Perten, Hanns Anselm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perten, Hanns-Anselm; Piotrowski, Johannes Franz (maiden name); Perten, Johannes Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleusenau near Bromberg (today: Bydgoszcz , Poland)
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1985
Place of death Rostock