Hans Joachim Hildebrandt (director)

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Hans Joachim Hildebrandt (born September 27, 1929 in Magdeburg ) is a German director .

Life

childhood

Birthplace at Irenenplatz 7 in 2010

He was born in the Lüttgen-Salbke settlement belonging to the Salbke district of Magdeburg . The father was a trained locomotive fitter , became an engineer and, interrupted by periods of unemployment, worked in heating engineering. The family later moved to downtown Magdeburg, where he also attended school. In 1936, his father got a job as a civil engineer for heating and plumbing with the Air Force . For professional reasons, he was mostly no longer at home. Later, the father joined the NSDAP , probably for formal career reasons . Hans Joachim Hildebrandt, who remained the only child of his parents, came to the Jungvolk, later to the Hitler Youth and attended high school in Magdeburg. Due to several illnesses, operations were carried out repeatedly in childhood and adolescence. An abdominal operation for intestinal tubercles took place at the Marienstift Clinic . Heart valve inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis later developed . A tonsil operation followed. During a hike with his mother in the Giant Mountains , he happened upon Gerhart Hauptmann as a teenager in Agnetendorf .

War experience

In his 1944 conducted screening he was afflicted, to the Waffen-SS to report what he was doing voluntary and regretted shortly afterwards. However, due to a bomb hit in the military district command , this report was not followed up. During a military training camp in Zerbst in January 1945, he denied the draft that had already taken place and volunteered for the Air Force in order to avoid the Waffen-SS report. During the great air raid on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945, the family's apartment in downtown Magdeburg was completely destroyed by fire bombs. Hans Joachim Hildebrandt was sent from the military training camp for three days to clean up the badly destroyed city of Magdeburg. He experienced the extent of the destruction as traumatizing. During the last days of the Second World War , he stayed in Stendal with relatives living there. In order to avoid the draft that was planned at the beginning of April 1945, he decided to take the train to Magdeburg. As a tank alarm had already been given there, however, he was unable to reach his relatives in Lüttgen-Salbke. With various trains and on foot he reached Brandenburg (Havel) , Dessau , Köthen , Bernburg through the front line to Nienburg (Saale) , which was already held by US forces , where his mother was staying. Here he worked in agriculture. After the war ended, the family moved back to Lüttgen-Salbke in July 1945. The British prisoner-of-war father also returned soon.

education

In the post-war period, Hans Joachim Hildebrandt first studied at the school now known as the Kloster-Berge- Schule. In 1947 he switched to the Berthold Otto School . A brief arrest and interrogation by the Soviet military authorities was a burden . In addition, Hildebrandt worked as a trainee in the dramaturgy with Fritz Wysbar at the Magdeburg Theater and from the end of 1947 as a freelance reporter for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). Among other things, he wrote a report on the find of the Buttergasse in downtown Magdeburg. Hildebrandt later joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Society for the Study of Culture of the Soviet Union and took speech lessons .

After graduating from high school, Hildebrandt continued to work as a freelancer at MDR in the Halle / Magdeburg studio from 1948, while working as an auxiliary fitter. An application to a theater school was unsuccessful. In 1949 he then took a position at the Berliner Rundfunk , where he was trained as a director. An application to the RIAS was unsuccessful. After six months of training, he became an assistant director in 1950 and also worked on radio play productions .

Professional career

In 1951 he married the widowed Brigitte , now a radio director , who brought a son into the marriage. Their daughter Sabine was born in 1952. From 1953 he worked as a director and author for German television and later for television in the GDR . At first he took over the announcement. His mentor was Gottfried Herrmann . In the repeatedly repeated gloss in the spirit of humanism , he was the first to direct his own. Had great success in 1955 was made staging of the play process Mary Dugan of Bayard Veiller for the German Television with Marion van de Kamp in the lead role. A challenge was the staging of the four-hour revue Frau Luna on New Year's Eve in 1955, which went live with six cameras from three studios. He then became known primarily for his work on GDR series such as Polizeiruf 110 and Blaulicht . As early as 1956, with the direction of the television play The Man Who Changed His Name to Edgar Wallace , Hildebrandt showed a fondness for the crime genre. There was a collaboration with the author Günter Prodöhl . In the first crime television film from this collaboration, It happened in Berlin , Hildebrandt cast the role of Zamorra with the later famous actor Manfred Krug . From 1959 Hildebrandt directed 15 episodes of the then successful series Blaulicht. Prodöhl, with whom Hildebrandt was on friendly terms, was an author. After the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, the Blaulicht series got into a crisis in terms of content. The deeds or the perpetrators usually had a connection to the West, since crimes in the socialist society of the GDR should be overcome. Shaken by the division of Berlin, Hildebrandt took advantage of an offer to help set up the Rostock Baltic Sea studio and became senior director there in 1962. However, there was little scope for television game productions. In addition, there was a serious argument with the general manager of the Rostock Volkstheater, Hanns Anselm Perten . Hildebrandt returned to Berlin after nine months and moved to Kleinmachnow . Various television games for television followed. Several works were also carried out outside of the GDR. Hildebrand was in Vienna for the Gymnastrade and later for a production in Hamburg . In 1969 he worked on the multi-part television film Rottenknechte , although there were differences in content between Hildebrandt and government agencies. The production was canceled and later re-staged by Frank Beyer .

Hildebrandt then worked on the six-part series dangerous journey by Wolfgang Held , in which he worked for the first time as a scenario and added additional storylines. From 1972 Hildebrandt worked for the series Polizeiruf 110. He later described the two-part episode Schwere Jahre , written by him and filmed in 1984 , which dealt with the immediate post-war period, as the highlight of his collaboration . The film fictitiously linked the Magdeburg judicial scandal of the 1920s, which was dealt with in the DEFA film Affaire Blum from 1948, with an eightfold murder of the Mittag family , owners, in 1945 in Beyendorf , only about two kilometers south of Lüttgen-Salbke the watermill on the brawn . In 1945 Hildebrandt walked from his family's home in Lüttgen-Salbke to the crime scene after the crime became known. The film ties in with the real events and lets the murderer from the 1920s, who escaped from prison in 1945 and then lived for a time in the Magdeburg Börde , also be responsible for the Beyendorfer murder. The film met with concerns at the Ministry of the Interior and should be banned because the criminalists shown are not sufficiently committed to the class enemy and life under a false name in the GDR, as shown in the film, is unrealistic. However, the film was shown.

In 1982 an attempt was made to advertise Hildebrandt as an unofficial employee of the State Security , also taking advantage of the knowledge of an extramarital relationship in Quedlinburg , but he ultimately refused. From 1988 to 1991 Hildebrandt worked on the seven-part series Luv and Lee . His last job as a director was a performance of The Robbery of the Sabine Women at the theater in Annaberg-Buchholz .

In 1991 his wife died of kidney cancer. He has been retired since 1992. Today he lives in Kleinmachnow. In 2010 he published his memoirs under the title Lüttgen Salbke .

Awards

He received several awards for his work. Such as the medal of honor of the German People's Police , the Heinrich Greif Prize and the medal of merit of the organs of the Ministry of the Interior in gold and bronze. In 1982 he received the Theodor-Körner-Preis, along with other 110 contributors to the police station .

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildebrandt, Lüttgen Salbke, page 202
  2. ↑ Hildebrandt, Lüttgen Salbke, page 207
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg