Hans-Werner Gyßling

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Hans-Werner Gyßling (born January 10, 1904 in Königsberg , † October 3, 1954 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the newspapers Der Demokratie and Märkische Union and head of the feature pages of Neue Zeit as well as a publicist.

Hans-Werner Gyßling was a leading member of the youth organization of the DDP during the Weimar Republic . For a time he was "Executive Chairman of the Reichsbund" and in this capacity he held an accountability report at the Reich Youth Conference of the federal organization in 1925 in Altenburg . On a group picture from the meeting of the Reichsführerrat of the “German Democratic Youth” in October 1926 in Bamberg , Hans Werner Gyßling was shown together with Ernst Lemmer and other youth functionaries. He gained journalistic experience as an employee of Otto Nuschke in the editorial office of the Berliner Volks-Zeitung . In 1934 he was expelled from the Reich Association of the German Press by the National Socialists . In 1947 he wrote a commemorative article for Walther Rathenau under his full name Hans Werner Gyßling , addressing the psychological roots of anti-Semitism that the liberal politician had exposed.

In 1950 he took over the management of the culture department of the CDU central organ Neue Zeit . Under the pseudonyms Ypsi., Quaro., Smolk. and Sebastian Ott he was active as a journalist. He used the latter when reviewing films, including those that were shown in the western part of Berlin. For example, the American film adaptation of the Hemingway novel “ Whom the hour strikes ” in the Filmbühne Wien . He had taken the character “Sebastian Ott” from the 1939 German crime film “Ich bin Sebastian Ott”. Gyßling paid tribute to Ypsi under his pseudonym . the Viennese actress Erika Pelikowsky , who made her successful debut as “Katharina” in the performance “ Das Gewitter ” by Ostrowski at the Deutsches Theater in 1951 , as an enrichment of the Berlin theater life. The review of the Berlin theater year 1951/52 with the presentation of the development of the Berliner Ensemble , in particular with the answer to the question by Ypsi “What national prize winner Bert Brecht played and what he held back”, was recalled in 2014 by the publicist Günther Rühle . Gyßling wrote his reports on the development of the Volksbühne visitor organization under the pseudonym Quaro . As head of the arts section, he protested - not without personal negative consequences - against the intended elimination of the Volksbühne visitors' organization in East Berlin , which had been revived in the four-sector city in 1947 with a Soviet license on January 15 of the same year . This visitor organization gave all Berliners inexpensive access to the theaters and was to be replaced by a new subscription system in the eastern sector .

In his personal "memories" of the Berlin Rose Theater , the theater critic went into the play of Hauptmann's " Die Ratten " played there in 1936, praising Traute Rose in particular as the actress of "Frau Johns" and mentioning the caretaker "Quaquaro" whose name part "Quaro" he also published this article.

From his apartment in Potsdam, Gyßling attended premiere evenings in the western part of the four- sector city , such as the premiere of Garson Kanin's play “Not of yesterday / Born yesterday” directed by Boleslaw Barlog in the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin-Steglitz with the actors Peter Mosbacher , Edith Schneider and Alfred Schieske . As a master of the fine ironic undertone, Gyßling used a contribution to this American comedy that had previously been published in the Tagesspiegel for his review of the “lively anti-plutocratic laughing play ” and drew his theater review with the pseudonym Smolk. In his theater reviews, Gyßling also dealt with "essential Potsdam premieres", including the plays that the "Landesbühne Brandenburg" staged in cities without theaters.

As head of the features section of Neue Zeit, he corresponded with GDR cultural politicians, among others. A typewritten page of letters to Johannes R. Becher with Gyßling's handwritten signature has been preserved in the archive of the Academy of Arts . In the letter, Gyßling declared his interest in wanting to take part in the meetings of the so-called "Wednesday Society". Under the patronage of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin , the Faustoper project was critically discussed from May 13, 1953 onwards. In the cultural section of Neue Zeit , for which Gyßling was responsible , it was previously reported that contemporary opera production was being promoted by the GDR and that national prize winner Hanns Eisler had already completed the libretto for his Faust opera .

Especially his theater reviews in New Times found strong consideration against him were the end of January 1953 - at the time of arrest Georg Disability Ingers - ridden violent attacks, so once in Koenigsberg born journalist in Berlin at the age of 50 years for a einundeinhalbjährigen sick bed on the third October 1954 passed away in the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin . The then Neue Zeit editor-in-chief Alwin Schaper mentioned in the obituary that Gyßling, drafted in 1939, was released from American captivity in December 1945, that his home in Berlin-Schöneberg was destroyed by bombing and that he (was) back on the spot in spring 1946 to dedicate his journalistic strength to the development of the Union press. " The publicist Günter Wirth appreciated that Gyßling was "able to write brilliant biographical essays, but above all brilliant theater reviews."

family

Hans Werner Gyßling was married to Ursula, née Beckmann. The family had three sons: Ulf, Rainer and Frank (* 1947). The eldest son Ulf (* 1937; † 1962) attended high school from the school year 1951/52. and the three younger brother Rainer attended elementary school. The family of five lived in Potsdam in today's Bertha-von-Suttner-Strasse at the time of the death of the publicist, culture editor and theater critic. The lawyer and member of the Reichstag, Robert Gyssling (1858–1912) was an uncle of Hans-Werner.

The "Berliner Adreßbuch", edition 1935, gave as the address and his activity at that time: Hans Werner Gyßling, editor , Berlin SW 61, Lankwitzstraße 5 .

The journalist processed his stay of several weeks in 1952 because of his severe asthma illness in the "Impressionen aus Bad Salzungen ", which was printed in four episodes in the daily newspaper Neue Zeit and illustrated with a group photo. Among other things, he criticized the then Kurhaus am Burgsee for the fact that "two spa guests always have a common bedroom" and that after his daily breathing and bathing workload, he only had eight minutes of the day to be alone. He used this to supply the Neue Zeit "with further Salzunger impressions ."

swell

  • Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Political yearbook of the CDUD, 1st volume 1966/67, East Berlin 1966, p. 186; DNB 010099859
  • Krabbe, Wolfgang R .: The history and future of the Weimar Republic. The failed future of the First Republic. Youth organizations of bourgeois parties in the Weimar state (1918–1933) . Opladen 1995, p. 203; ISBN 978-3-531-12707-1
  • Meier, Manfred: A life in Germany. Experiences with two dictatorships , Vienna 2006, p. 58 f .; ISBN 3-902494-11-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wirth, Günter (book review): Siegfried Prokop: Intellektuelle im Krisenjahr 1953 ; ISBN 978-3-935530-19-4 . In Leibniz-Sozietät / Sitzungsberichte 60 (2003) 4, pp. (141–152) 151 f .; PDF
  2. ↑ Wirth, Günter: The Other Spirit of Potsdam , Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 184; ISBN 3-518-39634-X
  3. ↑ Gyßling, Werner: The democratic youth in the dispute of opinions . In: Der Herold , 3. (1922), No. 31/33, pp. 7-13.
  4. ^ Krabbe, Wolfgang R .: The failed future of the First Republic. Youth organizations of bourgeois parties in the Weimar State (1918-1933) , p. 125; ISBN 978-3-531-12707-1
  5. ↑ Cover image of the book The failed future of the First Republic , ISBN 978-3-531-12707-1 , and identification by Lothar Fühlrott (1927-2017) on an unnumbered inside page
  6. ↑ Hans-Werner Gyßling in memory of his 60th birthday . In: Neue Zeit , January 10, 1964, p. 4
  7. ^ Neue Zeit , September 29, 1947, p. 1
  8. ^ Neue Zeit , February 11, 1951, p. 2
  9. ↑ Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 2990 : I am Sebastian Ott (Bavaria 1939). Actors: Willi Forst , Otto Tressler , Paul Hörbiger and others
  10. ^ Neue Zeit , February 17, 1951, p. 4
  11. ^ Neue Zeit , July 26, 1952, p. 4
  12. ^ Rühle, Günther: Theater in Germany 1946-1966 ; ISBN 978-3-10-403160-6
  13. ^ For example, in: Neue Zeit , November 25, 1950, p. 3
  14. ↑ Dieter Weigert: Four licenses for re-education. The People's Stage Movement in Berlin 1945-1947 , in: Berlinische Monatsschrift (of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ), issue 12/2000, pp. (159-166) 163
  15. ^ Meier, Manfred: A life in Germany , Vienna 2006, p. 58; ISBN 3-902494-11-5
  16. ^ Neue Zeit , November 15, 1952, p. 3
  17. ^ Neue Zeit , March 9, 1951, p. 4
  18. ^ For example, Friedrich Wolf's "The Mayoress": Neue Zeit , March 7, 1951, p. 4
  19. ↑ Signature: 14616 "Neue Zeit, Hans-Werner Gyßling to Johannes R. Becher / Secretariat"; Kalliope network, info.
  20. ^ Neue Zeit , February 25, 1953, p. 4.
  21. ↑ Neue Zeit , April 28, 1990, page 9: Memories of the publicist Hans-Werner Gyßling
  22. ^ Neue Zeit , July 24, 1955, p. 4
  23. ^ Neue Zeit , October 7, 1954, p. 6
  24. ^ Obituary notices from the Gyßling family and the former Union Verlag in Neue Zeit , October 7, 1954, p. 7
  25. ^ "Private Reportage" by Ypsi. In: Neue Zeit , September 7, 1952, p. 10
  26. ^ Obituary notice in Neue Zeit , November 24, 1962, p. 10
  27. ↑ coeducation of Ypsi. In: Neue Zeit 23 December 1951, p. 8
  28. ↑ Berlin address book. 1935 edition, part I, p. 829, column 4, [today: Ruhlsdorfer Str.]; Central and State Library Berlin (ZLB), digitized
  29. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 14, 21, 23 and 28, 1952, p. 4 respectively
  30. ^ Neue Zeit , October 21, 1952, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Gyßling, Hans-Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hans Werner Gyßling; Sebastian Ott; Quaro .; Smolk .; Ypsi.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1954
Place of death Berlin