Hans Bunge

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Hans Bunge (actually Hans-Joachim Bunge ; born December 3, 1919 in Arnsdorf ; † May 27, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German dramaturge, director and author. Bunge became known through his conversations with Hanns Eisler about Brecht .

Grave of Hans Bunge in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

Life

Hans Bunge joined the NSDAP in 1938 , was with the Reich Labor Service and the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1943 and was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949 .

After returning to Germany, he studied German, art and theater history in Greifswald from 1950 to 1953 . Through the mediation of Ruth Berlaus , he became assistant director and dramaturge at the Berliner Ensemble . From 1956 to 1962 he headed the Bertolt Brecht Archive and conducted highly regarded interviews with employees and students of Bertolt Brecht , on whom he received his doctorate in 1957.

By personal differences with Helene Weigel joined Bunge to German Academy of Arts (DAK), where he initially oversaw the historical-critical edition of the works of Brecht and later special issues of the literary magazine " Sinn und Form " and others to Hanns Eisler , Thomas Mann and Willi Bredel published . In 1965, the politically uncomfortable Bunge, who was friends with Wolf Biermann , Heiner Müller and Robert Havemann , was dismissed by the DAK without notice at the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee .

1968 to 1970 Bunge worked as a director and dramaturge at the Volkstheater Rostock , 1970 to 1978 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He then lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 1976 he was one of the signatories of the protest letter against Wolf Biermann's expatriation.

Bunge wrote the connecting texts for the Brecht evening with Wolf Kaiser and Angelica Domröse .

Theater (direction)

Fonts

  • Werner Hecht , Hans-Joachim Bunge, Käthe Rülicke-Weiler : Bertolt Brecht. Life and Work , Berlin 1963
  • Ask more about Brecht. Interview with Hanns Eisler , Munich 1970
  • Brecht's Lai-tu. Memories and notes by Ruth Berlau , Darmstadt and Neuwied 1985
  • The debate about Hanns Eisler's “Johann Faustus” (ed.), Berlin 1991

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Bunge, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1990
Place of death Berlin