Hans Balzer

Balzer (left) in 1955

Hans Balzer (born October 28, 1891 in Handorf , † October 6, 1960 in Kassel ) was a German playwright and writer .

Life

Hans Balzer was the son of a teacher and first attended the village school where his father taught. After graduating from secondary school in Lüneburg , he studied German from 1911 until the beginning of the First World War . After the end of the war, Balzer worked in various professions and from 1924 traveled through Germany as a reciter, especially with works by Wilhelm Busch . At the beginning of the 1930s he began to write Low German theater pieces, some of which were also edited for radio. He wrote the radio play Reinke de Voss himself . Balzer was also the editor of various reading and lecture books, including works by Fritz Reuter about his character Zacharias Bräsig . Balzer later lived in Leipzig and died in Kassel in 1960 a few weeks before he was 69 years old.

Hans Balzer's plays De verflixte Strump and Dat Lock in'n Tuun were shown as High German productions by the Ohnsorg Theater on television, the latter under the title Hühner in Nachbars Garten .

Works

Plays

title	Alternative title	premiere	stage
Dat Lock in'n Tuun		August 31, 1930	Low German Stage Hamburg
Revolution against de Wiwer	De Deern in Büxen; Kruse and company	September 30, 1931	Low German Stage Hamburg
De Dör close buten		October 1, 1932	Low German Stage Hamburg
Just a Vittelstünn	You are dangerous Vittelstünn	September 20, 1933	Low German Stage Hamburg
Fleitenpeter		November 29, 1936	Low German Stage Hamburg
Klaas Klütenkamp's shirt		November 27, 1937	Low German Stage Hamburg
De stupid Hans	Stupid Hans blends their happiness	November 30, 1940	Low German Stage Hamburg
Dat ole sofa		January 2, 1949	State Theater Oldenburg
De darned Strump		1953	Fritz Reuter stage
viola		1957	Low German stage in Kiel
That scoundrel		1958	Low German stage Bremen
Tippelbröder	Revised by De Dör nah buten	May 9, 1959	Ohnsorg Theater
Unkel Bräsig un de strategy		17th September 1960	Low German stage Bremen
Över Krüüz		5th August 1983	Low German stage "Waterkant"

Plays without proof of a performance

• 1932: Bumbo with a magic shoot
• 1933: Kinnerhannel
• 1936: fate, go ahead!
• 1950: fate, three o'clock!
• 1950: Don’t give us anything
• 1951: So'n Kröt von Deern
• 1954: Spöök
• 1957: De Moorkönig
• 1957: De Dullworm or Where one can piously make evil Fruns
• 1960: Vineta
• 1960: De darned pann
• 1960: Here go, there go

Radio plays

• 1946: Över Krüüs - Director: Hans Krüger
• 1951: Lock in'n Tuun - Director: Günter Siebert , with Carl Hinrichs , Erika Rumsfeld , Ernst Waldau and others
• 1957: De verflixte Strump - Director: Walter A. Kreye , with Jochen Schenck , Ruth Bunkenburg and others
• 1958: Reinke de Voß - Director: Walter Bäumer , with Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , Wolfgang Schenck , Bernd Wiegmann and others
• 1962: viola. Low German Singspiel based on Hans Balzer's comedy of the same name - Director: Günther Siegmund , with Walther Bullerdiek , Heidi Haronska ,

Edgar Bessen , Otto Lüthje and others

literature

• 1938: Dat plattdütsche Lachen , A happy reading and lecture book (publisher), Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg
• 1952: The Laughing Muse , A lecture and reading book of cheerful poetry, Deutscher Laienspiel-Verlag, Weinheim / Bergstrasse
• 1960: That you keep your nose in your face , experiences, speeches and opinions of Inspector Zacharias Bräsig (ed.), Petermänken-Verlag, Schwerin

Filmography

• 1976: Chickens in the neighbor's garden
• 1997: The darn stocking

Web links

• Hans Balzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hans Balzer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Balzer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)