Hanns Farenburg

Hanns Farenburg (born February 28, 1900 in Steinau , Lower Saxony; † June 3, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German television director who also frequently acted as a producer for the North German Broadcasting Corporation in television productions and has worked for the North West German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) since the founding earliest experimental TV programs was involved.

Life

He wrote the first television play Vorpiel auf dem Goethe, which was broadcast live in March 1951, lasted only around 15 minutes and only reached a very small number of viewers. Farenburg also directed the very first TV crime thriller Inspector Tondi based on a book by Siegfried Lenz . In the 29-minute television game that was broadcast on the NWDR's experimental programs on August 11, 1952, Alfred Schieske played the title role alongside Karl John , Carl Voscherau and Maria Martinsen. At Christmas 1952, Farenburg's production Silent Night, Holy Night , which told the story of the world's most famous Christmas carol, ran.

Farenburg can be seen as one of the founding fathers of fictional television , he brought many materials by well-known authors into the living room for the first time, in addition to Goethe also Siegfried Lenz, Ludwig Thoma, George Bernard Shaw, Curt Goetz, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde and Leo Tolstoy. His productions were mostly top-class, in addition to international stars like Albert Lieven , theater greats like Ida Ehre , audience favorites like Rudolf Fernau , Dieter Borsche , actors like Richard Häußler , Werner Bruhns , Hilde Weissner and young stars like Heinz Reincke , Günther Schramm , Uwe were to be seen Friedrichsen , Ursula Lingen , Gerd Baltus or Katinka Hoffmann . He also brought popular folk actors such as Fritz Strassner and Henry Vahl in front of the camera. He also did not shy away from making television productions of well-known cinema classics, such as The Caine Was Her Destiny in 1959.

Farenburg also worked in the early 1950s for the Tele-Brettl series , which was moderated by Peter Frankenfeld and others and in which cabaret artists appeared.

As a producer, he made the Edgar Wallace film The Man Who Changed His Name . In his younger years Hanns Farenburg was also active as an actor, for example he played supporting roles in the films Togger (1936) and Künstlerkameraden (1937).

Filmography

as a television director for the NWDR / NDR

• March 2, 1951: Prelude to the theater , based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• October 6, 1951: It was the wind according to the story 'The Monkey's Paw' by Wolfgang Martin Schede
• August 11, 1952: Inspector Tondi Krimi by Siegfried Lenz
• December 25, 1952: Silent Night, Holy Night , television play by Johannes Kai
• February 12, 1953: First class , after Ludwig Thoma
• February 27, 1953: The Man of Destiny , comedy by George Bernard Shaw
• August 30, 1953: The invisible collection by Stefan Zweig
• October 22, 1953: Minna Magdalena after Curt Goetz
• October 31, 1953: crackers
• April 23, 1954: The oyster and the pearl according to William Saroyan
• October 8, 1954: A postman passed by , based on the radio play by Walter Kolbenhoff
• January 13, 1955: Nora or A Doll's House , after Henrik Ibsen
• February 2, 1955: Seventeen and two , after August Hinrichs
• October 28, 1955: Road junction , based on the radio play by Paolo Levi
• April 29, 1956: Ship without a port , based on the play 'Schipper naast God' by Jan de Hartog
• April 13, 1958: Black silk , played by Lesley Storm
• June 8, 1958: An Ideal Husband , Oscar Wilde comedy
• March 1, 1959: The Caine was her destiny , based on the play by Hermann Wouk
• April 18, 1959: Minna Magdalena , remake from 1953, based on the comedy by Curt Goetz
• August 20, 1959: Dreyfus Affair , based on the real case
• January 28, 1960: The fall of 'Freedom' , according to Jan de Hartog
• July 28, 1960: Crosses on the horizon , based on the play by Traugott Krischke
• September 30, 1961: Advokat Patelin - The Mutton Comedy , based on Gert Hofmann
• April 27, 1963: The happiness of marriage according to Leo Tolstoy