Hans Fleischer (radio presenter)

Hans "Hannes" Fleischer (born April 27, 1896 in Schwerin , † January 28, 1975 in Hamburg ) was a German reciter and radio broadcaster .

Life

Born in Schwerin in 1896 as the son of a watchmaker who loves recitation , Fleischer was able to recite works by John Brinckman , Fritz Reuter and Rudolf Tarnow by heart to his schoolmates at a young age .

Initially active in the trade, he came to Hamburg via Rostock and Berlin , where he decided in 1923 to make reciting his profession. As early as 1924 he was hired by the radio, which from then on broadcasted the program Chat with Hannes with him three times a week . Readings, children's radio hours and colorful evenings, at which Fleischer mainly brought Low German literature, followed. Soon he was considered one of the most popular performing artists in the Low German-speaking area.

After Fleischer's Hamburg apartment was destroyed in 1943 by bombing, he first lived in Bremervörde , but soon returned to the Hanseatic city of Poppenbüttel back. He lived there in a small apartment in the hospital of the Holy Spirit.

On September 16, 1970, Hannes Fleischer spoke again for the record, Johannes Gillhoff's Jürnjakob Swehn , one of his most famous recitations. Years before, Hermann Claudius had reported on exactly this recitation in his sketchbook of my encounters , which Fleischer, like many things, was able to speak from memory:

And who, as the narrator, leaned forward in the lamplight, was the longer the clearer it was no longer Hannes Fleischer from Bremervörde, but Juernjakob Swehn, the old Mecklenburg farmer who let his homesickness leak in letters over in America in order to be able to endure it. The sound of the language, the rhythm of the words, every gesture of the hand and the hidden grin.

Fleischer also recited Fritz Reuter , Otto Metterhausen and Richard Wossidlo on record.

Award

• In 1966, Fleischer received the Richard Ohnsorg Prize from the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS