Hanns Schuschnig

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Hanns Schuschnig (born December 21, 1927 in Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania ; † March 12, 2014 in Altusried , Bavaria ) was a German theater director , translator and actor . His work includes productions from chamber theaters to open-air plays to operas, stage sets, costumes and choreographies.

life and work

Schuschnig comes from the ethnic group of the Transylvanian Saxons . He graduated from the theater school in Bucharest in 1954 , after which he worked at the “Municipal Theater Municipal ” there.

In 1956 Schuschnig founded the German department of the Romanian City Theater in Sibiu. He made his debut on August 12, 1956 with a production of Bertolt Brecht's “ Mother Courage ” in the former Ursuline convent . It was the first performance of a Brecht play in Romania and the fourth worldwide after Zurich (1941), Berlin (1949) and Paris (1954) as well as the first open-air stage performance of the play worldwide. Because of an application to leave the country in the early 1950s, he was banned from working in Sibiu in 1962 and had to give up the management of the theater.

Schuschnig moved to Timișoara and worked as in-house director at the German State Theater there until 1969 . He made his debut with the entertainment program “Good mood in the luggage”, in which the director of the theater Johann Székler also contributed as a co-director. 24,096 spectators saw this piece in 69 performances. His early performances of Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow and Aurel Baranga were less successful because audiences were reluctant to see Russian and Romanian playwrights. In 1962 he was the first Romanian director to direct a play by a German author, Günther Weisenborn's “The Lost Face. Ballad of the laughing man ”. In 1963, Schuschnig designed the set for the production of Teofil Buscan's “nepotism”. In 1966 Schuschnig studied Hans Kehrer's humorous "It's about marriage", which was the most popular play at this theater with 152 performances until the Romanian Revolution in 1989 . In the seasons 1962/63 four pieces followed, 1963/1964 two, 1964/1965 three, 1965/1966 three, 1966/1967 one, 1967/1968 four, and 1968/1969 one piece. In Timișoara he staged his translations of Horia Lovinescu's The Death of an Artist (1963), Pierre Carlet de Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance (1965) as well as Horia Lovinescu's The Destroyed Citadel (1967) and Lucia Demetrius ' The Honor of a Woman (1968) . In the 1968/1969 season, Dan Radu took on more and more performances and remained the theater's most frequently used director in the following seasons.

On July 3, 1968, Schuschnig took part in the “Consultation at the Central Committee (ZK) of the Romanian Communist Party (RKP) with scientists and cultural workers from the ranks of German nationality”, which resulted in the Council of Working People of German Nationality .

In 1969 Schuschnig moved back to Sibiu, where he took over the management of the "German Department of the State Theater in Sibiu" (DASS). Here he staged, among others, Otto Fritz Jickeli's “Gaan von Salzburg” in 1969, Thornton Wilder's “Our Little City” and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's “Die Physiker” in 1970, Oscar Wilde's “Bunbury” in 1971 and Dan Tărchilăs : “Our Uncle from Jamaica”, and Max in 1974 Frisch's “ Don Juan or The Love of Geometry ” and Tudor Musatescu's “Sosesc deseară”. As a guest director, Schuschnig staged further productions in Timisoara, such as Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in 1972 (51 performances). His last play in Timișoara was Emil Braginskij's and Eldar Alexandrowitsch Ryazanov's comedy "Wedding without a Bride" with 39 performances in 1975 . In 1979 Schuschnig did not return to Romania after a visit to the Federal Republic of Germany. His successor in Sibiu was Gheorghe Miletineanu.

In 1986 he engaged Hans Kehrer as the author of the script “Anno 1525 - Peasants' War in Allgäu” for the Altusried open-air theater , which he then organized annually. One of his performances there in 1991 was Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen . In Altusried he founded the “Theaterkästle” stage, where he performed Brecht's “Mother Courage” in 1994, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1997 and Goethe's Faust in 1998 . In 2008 he directed Wolfgang Kohlhaase's comedy “Fisch zu viert” in Altusried . In the same year he directed Oscar Wilder's “Our Little City” and “Peer Gynt” there.

In 1987, in Heilbronn , he directed the singspiel “Bauernhochzeit in Siebenbürgen” in a stage version by Inge Rether. In 1990 Schuschnigg went on a tour through Transylvanian cities and villages. In January 1994, Georg Brenndörfer's play "The Birth of Christ Game of the Transylvanian Saxons in Donbass" took place in the mass dormitory of the former Almasna camp (see Deportation of Romanian Germans to the Soviet Union ), which was performed again in Munich in 1995. With the family's "Insel-Bühne" Schuschnig went on tour with his wife Beatrice (née Gutt) and his sons Mark and Tristan; The destinations were German language islands in Transylvania, Hungary, the former Silesia, Namibia and South Korea. In the 2013 film “Die Lebenden” by Barbara Albert , Schuschnig played Gerhard Weiss.

Publications

  • Sibiu and the German theater. In: Heinrich Zillich , Oskar Schuster (ed.): Epoch of decisions. The Transylvanian Saxons in the 20th century. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-412-07384-9 , 415 pp.
  • Goodbye, Victoria! Translation of the one-act play for amateur stages by Ludovic Bruckstein into German. Regional house for artists, folk creation, Timișoara 1964.
  • Gold beard. Roman (post mortem), epubli, 2019, ISBN 978-3-748575-48-1 , 864 S. Illustrated by Emo Schuschnig.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermannstädter Zeitung , Wolfgang Fuchs: Honey, Sugar and Salt Puppet Show in the Gong Theater German premiere ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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. , No. 2268/45, 3rd February 2012, p. 5  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermannstaedter.ro
  2. ↑ Short biography of Hans Schuschnig for the film "The Living" , 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Horst Fassel : Das Deutsche Staatstheater Temeswar (1953-2003): from supraregional identity bearer to experimental theater , LIT Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 3-643-11413-3 , 575 S., p. 184 ff .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Siebenbürger Zeitung, Christian Schoger: Hanns Schuschnig turned 80: A moving stage life , January 7, 2008
  5. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 9 of June 15, 2002, p. 12
  6. ^ Hannelore Baier : The year 1968 and the German minority ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 17 of October 31, 1969, p. 3
  8. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 5, March 25, 1970, p. 4
  9. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 19 of November 30, 1970, p. 6
  10. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 16 of October 15, 1971, p. 6
  11. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 16 of October 15, 1972, p. 5
  12. ↑ WorldCat : Search term Hanns Schuschnig
  13. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 12 of July 31, 1981, p. 3
  14. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 11 of July 15, 1991, p. 5
  15. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 19 of November 30, 1994, p. 7
  16. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 7 of April 30, 1997, p. 7
  17. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 4 of March 15, 1998, p. 6
  18. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 17 of October 31, 1987, p. 9
  19. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 14 of September 15, 1990, p. 4
  20. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 19 of November 30, 1994, p. 14
  21. ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, volume 20 of December 15, 1994, p. 2
  22. ↑ The living. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuschnig, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, actor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2014
Place of death Altusried , Bavaria