Hans Böttcher (director)

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Hans Otto Böttcher (born December 24, 1898 in Hamburg , † June 15, 1936 in Hamburg-Eppendorf ) was a German radio pioneer , radio play speaker and director (senior director) at NORAG in Hamburg.

Life

Hans Böttcher's grave

As Hans Böttcher in the foreword to his dissertation phil. (Topic: Comparative studies of the epic technique and style of Fooke Hoissen Müller and Klaus Grooth ) wrote about his career, he attended secondary school in front of the Lübecker Tor after elementary school and then the secondary school St. Georg in his hometown of Hamburg. Afterwards he was stationed on the western front in the war . From the summer semester of 1919 he attended the University of Marburg and from the winter semester of 1920 the University of Hamburg . His teachers included professors Ernst Elster , Max Deutschbein , Friedrich Vogt and Ferdinand Wrede in Marburg , as well as Agathe Lasch , Conrad Borchling and Emil Wolff in Hamburg.

He mainly dealt with the study of Germanic languages , German literary history , ancient studies and folklore . His main subject was Low German and Dutch philology and literary history.

He took the oral exam on July 22, 1922.

In 1924, Böttcher was one of the founding members of the Hamburg-based Nordische Rundfunk AG, together with Hans Bodenstedt and Kurt Stapelfeldt . As a radio editor he was heavily involved in the area of ​​the Low German language and culture. He campaigned for the broadcast-compatible processing of works by Low German authors and thus brought them to the radio stage. In these broadcast games, as the format was called at the time, he was mainly employed as a director.

His collaboration with Richard Ohnsorg , the director of the Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg , after whom the venue was later renamed the Ohnsorg Theater , turned out to be very successful . He and his ensemble were there from the start, including his "right hand" Hermann Möller , Magda Bäumken , Walther Bullerdiek , Hans Langmaack , Käte Alving and the young Otto Lüthje . The collaboration with the theater also continued after Ohnsorg's death with the later NWDR Hamburg and the NDR .

Like his fellow student Stapelfeldt, he was also extensively involved in the Low German Quickborn movement . He was also involved in a leading position in founding the Hans Bredow School , the radio adult education center. Its first branch, the school of Low German , he practically "launched".

Even after the National Socialists seized power , when NORAG was nationalized and now continued as Reichsender Hamburg , Böttcher stayed with the station.

In 1936, Böttcher fell seriously ill. He was then admitted to the Eppendorf University Medical Center, where he died of pneumonia on June 15 . The urn burial took place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . The grave site has been preserved and is located in grid square Q 8.

Associated with Böttcher is the Hans Böttcher Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in Hamburg, which was awarded from 1960 to 1982 for radio plays in Low German . In 1982 this and four other prizes were merged with the Fritz Reuter Prize (Hamburg) .

Radio plays

At the moment (end of March 2017) the ARD radio play database from the early days only records the years 1924 to 1926 and in some cases even 1927. In the early months, no information about the directors was given for the dialect radio plays . All productions were broadcast live without recording, as such technology was only available in the late 1920s.

As a speaker

As a director

  • 1925: Gorch Fock : Doggerbank. Low German drama in one act
  • 1925: Geert Teis : Master öwer Master. Comedy - transferred from the Groningen dialect and freely edited for Low German Speeldeelen
  • 1925: Georg Ruseler : De dulle Deern. A fun Burnspill in three trips
  • 1925: Ingeborg Andresen : De Roop. Spel in Dre Tög
  • 1925: Hermann Boßdorf : Dat Schattenspel. Plattdütsche Comedy in one act
  • 1925: Hinrich Wriede : Leege Lüd. A fun spillwark on a trip
  • 1925: Fritz Stavenhagen : Mudder Mews. Low German drama in 5 acts
  • 1925: Karl Wagenfeld : Hatt giegen Hatt. Low German peasant drama in 3 acts
  • 1925: Paul Schurek : Stratenmusik. Kummedi in three files (broadcast from the Noragfest in Harburg to all NORAG transmitters on August 1, 1925)
  • 1925: Wilfried Wroost : Slagsiet. Low German drama in 3 acts
  • 1925: Fritz Stavenhagen: Mudder Mews. Low German drama in 5 acts
  • 1925: Hermann Boßdorf: De Fährkrog. En dramatic glossary in three acts
  • 1925: Paul Schurek: Stratenmusik. Kumeedi in three files
  • 1925: Hermann Boßdorf: Bahnmeester Dod. A nedderdütsch drama in five acts
  • 1925: Fritz Stavenhagen: Jürgen Piepers. Low German folk piece in 5 acts
  • 1925: Bruno Peyn : Sunte Maria tou'm Schare. A hamburg singspel in fiw optög
  • 1925: Hans Ehrke : Fool's level. En eernsthafti Komeedi in veer Optög
  • 1925: Heinrich Behnken : De Verschriewung. Comedy in three acts
  • 1925: Bruno Peyn: Sunte Maria tou'm Schare. En Hamborger Singspel in fiev Optög
  • 1926: Fritz Stavenhagen: Jürgen Piepers (two broadcasts in January)
  • 1926: Alexander Baumann : The promise behind the stove. Singspiel from the Austrian Alps
  • 1926: Paul Schurek: New Year's Eve. Komedi in three Biller
  • 1926: Paul Schurek: The last cab driver. Komedi in an optog
  • 1926: Rudolf Werner : Seafaring. Low German drama in 3 acts
  • 1926: Karl Kriekeberg : Pidder Lüng . Detlev von Liliencron to'n Memorial
  • 1926: Gorch Fock: The Queen of Honolulu . Folk play in four acts
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: Bahnmeester Dod. A nedderdütsch drama in five acts
  • 1926: Otto Franz Grund : nest chicks. A funny spill in three acts
  • 1926: Gorch Fock: The Queen of Honolulu. Folk play in 4 acts
  • 1926: Ernst Elias Niebergall : Mr. Bummerlunder ( Datterich in Low German)
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: De Fährkrog. A dramatic breakout in three acts
  • 1926: Hermann Boßdorf: Kramer Kray. Nedderdütsche comedy in fiev files
  • 1926: Herman Heijermans : Keden. From Kinnerleev an irnst-Funny Speel in four files
  • 1926: Wilhelm Scharrelmann : The wedding in the Pickbalge. A cheerful play in four acts
  • 1926: Gustav Möhring : Dusenddüwelswarf. Drama in fiev optög
  • 1926: Hans Ehrke: Dat Pastür. Monedi in an optog
  • 1926: August Hinrichs: De Aukschon. En funny spill in an optog
  • 1926: August Hinrichs : Marie. Plattdütsch drama in an optog
  • 1926: Otto Franz Grund: Dat lütte Rumenken. Funny spill in 3 acts
  • 1926: Paul Schurek: New Year's Eve. Komedi in 3 Biller
  • 1927: Wilfried Wroost: wreck. Low German folk piece in four acts (also speaker)
  • 1927: Heinrich Behnken: Klaus Knipphoff . Historical drama in five acts
  • 1927: Peter Werth : St. Elmsfüer. Een Speel in 4 options
  • 1927: Fritz Stavenhagen: Mudder Mews. Low German drama in five acts (guest performance by the Low German Noragbühne Hamburg at Südwestdeutschen Rundfunkdienst AG in Frankfurt am Main)

* 1927: Bruno Peyn: Sunte Maria tou'm Schare. En Hamborger Singspel in fiev Optög

swell

  • Administration of the Ohlsdorf cemetery , here: exact life data, full name and title (Dr. phil. Hans Otto Böttcher), senior director at the Reichssender Hamburg, cause and place of death (hospital), cremation at the Ohlsdorf cemetery.
  • ARD radio play database: Everything about radio plays.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http ://www.hamburgerpersoenitäten.de/hamburgerpersoenitäten/member_file_uploads/helper.asp?id= 2291
  2. ↑ http : //www.hamburger-persoenitäten.de/hamburgerpersoenitäten/login/person.asp
  3. ↑ request from derAlfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böttcher, Hans Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio pioneer, radio play speaker and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1936
Place of death Hamburg-Eppendorf