Hans Gnant

Hans Gnant (* 1920 in Vienna ; † 2000 in Altmünster , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian poet of theater plays , especially comedies .

biography

Hans Gnant was born in Neustift am Walde , Vienna, in 1920 . After school he learned the trade of baker . He was drafted as a soldier at the beginning of World War II . His first comedies, rural comedies, were written in the English prisoner-of-war camp in 1946 and were also performed in the camp theater.

After returning from captivity, Gnant initially worked in the profession he had learned. In the 1950s he founded the Traunseer Volksbühne, which he ran with Fritz Edtmeier.

After working as a material warehouse manager in industry, he moved to a beverage company in 1960. As a sales manager, he went in 1980 in pension .

Plays by Hans Gnant have been translated into Dutch , Danish , Low German and Swiss German. In addition to a large number of amateur theaters and theater associations, his plays have also been performed by professional theaters such as the Löwinger-Bühne , the Chiemgauer Volkstheater and the Kleiner Theater Ismaning.

Stage plays by Hans Gnant

• Your own judge, popular piece
• The heroes from the night of malice, rural comedy
• Bulky waste, one-act
• The wrong way, acting
• The legacy of the fathers, popular piece
• The energy savers, one-act
• The scapegoat, rural comedy
• The bypass, rural comedy
• The tax auditor, comedy
• The street cavalier, rural comedy
• Correspondence, Schwank
• The Mozart letter, comedy
• Everything is possible, rural comedy
• Millions in the hay, rural comedy
• A bell rings in the valley, in the course of the year
• Hans Ganant / Niko Eggl: The alpine hunter, folk piece
• The stranger, folk piece
• Die Geierwally, Volksstück, adapted from the novel by Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916)
• The treasure in the Grenzhäusl, Volksstück
• The shot in the Kaiserklamm, Volksstück
• The carver from the Sternhof, Volksstück
• Hans Gnant / Niko Eggl: The oath at the forest chapel, folk piece
• Hans Gnant / Anton Maly: Sealed lips, comedy
• Liaber liag'n as fliag'n, rural comedy
• Wedding in Steinfeld, rural comedy
• Except for expenses, there was nothing, rural comedy
• Vertigo in St. Wendelin, comedy
• Funny district court, rural comedy
• The b'suff, folk piece
• The living mummy, comedy
• Love and sheet metal damage, rural comedy
• Love and air travel, Schwank
• Love, tricks and healing massages, folk piece
• The Christ Child comes, in the course of the year
• Kunibert and Kunigunde or The Legacy of Falkenstein, Ritterspiel
• The bells of fate after the piece "A bell rings in the valley", in the course of the year
• The robbery of the Sabine women ... After the wall, comedy
• A totally crazy couple, Schwank
• Love, money and waste paper, comedy
• Pension Schöller, Posse
• The litigation, comedy
• The Geierwally, folk piece

Source: Theater Association Tyrol

Translated into Low German

• Gnant, Hans; Speck, Arthur [transl.]: Blickschaden  : Schwank in three acts, Verden: Mahnke, [1981]. - 72 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 836), PBuB-ID: 11701
• Gnant, Hans; Speck, Arthur [ transl .]: Roland schall fiegen  : Schwank in 3 acts, Verden: Mahnke, [approx. 1983]. - 86 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 859), PBuB-ID: 10310
• Gnant, Hans; Schepper, Rainer [translator]: Blickschaden  : Schwank in three acts / by Hans Gnant. To the Münsterland. transfer by Rainer Schepper. - Verden: Mahnke, [approx. 1984]. - 86 pp. - (Westphalian pieces [W]; 54), PBuB-ID: 12312
• Gnant, Hans; Speck, Arthur [translator]: Politics and Föhrerschien  : Schwank in Drei Akten / by Hans Gnant. Plattdt. by Arthur Speck. - Verden: Mahnke, 1986. - 87 pages - (Speeldeel [SP]; 892), PBuB-ID: 10312
• Gnant, Hans; Grant, Franz [transl.]: TV - totally twisted! : Schwank in 5 Akten, Verden: Mahnke, 1986. - 89 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 893), PBuB-ID: 10311
• Gnant, Hans; Kropp, Jürgen [translator]: Millions int Heu  : Rural comedy in three acts, Low German arrangement by Emil Sagebiel. - Verden: Mahnke, 1990. - 131 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 930), PBuB-ID: 10313
• Gnant, Hans; Kropp, Jürgen [translator]: Elisa  : A funny folk play in three acts, Niederdt. by Emil Sagebiel. - Verden: Mahnke, 1996. - 97 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 1032), PBuB-ID: 10314
• Gnant, Hans; Kropp, Jürgen [translator]: De Scapegoat  : Rural comedy in four acts, Low German arrangement by Emil Sagebiel. - Verden: Mahnke, 1998. - 93 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 1053), PBuB-ID: 10315
• Gnant, Hans; Quiter, Ludger [transl.]: TV - totally twisted  : Schwank in five acts, Münsterländer Platt transfer. by Ludger Quiter. - first edition of the Westphalian version - Verden: Mahnke, 1999. - 87 pages - (Westphalian pieces [W]; 74), PBuB-ID: 10316
• Gnant, Hans; Quiter, Ludger [translator]: Politics and Föhrerschien  : Schwank in three acts / by Hans Gnant. Transfer to the Münsterländer Platt. by Ludger Quiter. - first edition of the Münsterland version - Verden: Mahnke, 2001. - 86 pp. - (Westphalian pieces [W]; 76), PBuB-ID: 10317
• Gnant, Hans; Harrjes, Jan [transl.]: De Stratenkavalier  : Schwank in three acts / by Hans Gnant. Plattdt. by Jan Harrjes. - Verden: Mahnke, 2002. - 76 pp. - (Speeldeel [SP]; 1101), PBuB-ID: 10318

Filmography

Scripts

• 1967 The Geierwally
• 1984 love and sheet metal damage
• 1985 politics and driving license
• 1992 Chiemgauer Volkstheater (1 episode, 1992) - Love and sheet metal damage (1992) TV episode (screenplay)
• 1997 Two fathers too many

Literary template

1991: The Komödienstadel , millions in the hay , 1991 Bavarian television directed by Martin Politowski

Honors

• 1978 1st prize ORF authors' competition
• 1981 Rauris Culture Prize,
• 1983 ORF Tyrolean People's Piece Prize

Web links

• Hans Gnant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Page of the Kaiserverlag about Hans Gnant
• Overview of plays by the Tyrolean Theater Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1992 Theatergruppe Birmersdorf ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 1993 Kolping Bremgarten, Switzerland
3. ↑ 2001 Theater of the Erstfeld costume group  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ A dialect version of the play by Hans Wälti, Liebi Gäld and Altpapier , was performed in Switzerland in 2006 by the Liebhaberbühne Bern archive link ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://www.theaterverbandtirol.at/index.php?page=autor&id=205
6. ↑ Hans Gnant in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
7. ↑ The comedy nobility: millions in the hay , br.de