Hans Krendlesberger
Hans Krendlesberger (born June 17, 1925 in Scheibbs ; † November 17, 1995 in Vienna ) was an Austrian radio director, playwright and author of radio and television plays .
Life
Hans Krendlesberger spent his early childhood in Scheibbs (Lower Austria), from the age of thirteen he attended the Realgymnasium in Vienna. In 1943 he was drafted. After two years at the front and nine months as a prisoner of war, he studied theater, newspaper and musicology at the University of Vienna . In 1950 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the theater of the United States - from the Civil War to the Present Dr. phil.
In the same year he was entrusted by the broadcasting group Rot-Weiß-Rot with setting up the radio play and literature department in Studio Linz. After his play The task of the Theater der Josefstadt was selected from 80 pieces for the Wiener Festwochen and became a stage success in 1966 , Austrian television brought him back to Vienna.
In 1968, Krendlesberger returned to radio as director of programming. From 1976 until his retirement he was director of literature and radio plays at ORF I. He directed the Du holde Kunst series in the Vienna area and staged a total of over 1200 radio plays.
In 1980 he received the important RAI radio play award at the Prix Italia . His most important production is the complete recording of Karl Kraus' monster drama The Last Days of Mankind with the participation of 200 actors, including almost all theater greats in the German-speaking area.
Since Krendlesberger had already edited many pieces for radio and television, including a. Pieces by Scribe and Nestroy, it was obvious that he would not only appear as a radio play writer, but also as a dramatist. His successful plays such as The Task , The Question , The Interview , The Monsters , etc. a., were played in Paris as well as in Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Helsinki, Sofia and Krakow.
All of these works were also broadcast on TV and radio at home and abroad. In 1975 Das Interview was awarded as the best Bulgarian radio play. In the production of German television ( Das Interview ), Lil Dagover and Heidi Brühl can be seen in the leading roles, the protagonist at the Bregenz Festival was Joana Maria Gorvin.
From 1975 to 1990 Hans Krendlesberger was President of the Austrian Writers' Association and member of the board of the Austrian PEN Club . Of the many awards he has received, the most important ones should be mentioned here: Austrian State Prize for TV Game (1969), 1st Prize for Literature from the Austrian Art Fund (1975), Cross of Honor for Science and Art (1981), Culture Prize of the Province of Lower Austria (1982), gold medal “1300 Years of Bulgaria” (1991), Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria (1988), Cross of Honor for Science and Art First Class and the Gold Medal of the Federal Capital Vienna (1990).
Works
Monographs
- The theater of the United States of America - from the Civil War to the present. Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1950. UB
As a playwright
- "The task" (drama) - first performance 1979 at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt under the direction of Michael Peter
- "The Open Labyrinth" (Dramas, 1982)
- Jean Baptiste Molière : The Flying Doctor (adaptation)
- The task , drama, Vienna, 1966
- The question , drama, Berlin 1968
- The interview , television play, Vienna 1969
- Die Monstren , Drama, Hanover 1973
- The interview , drama, Krakow 1973
- The bed (I've had enough, I'll stay in bed ), Drama, Sommerhausen 1976
- The Italian breakfast , (three one-act plays), Sommerhausen 1989
- The poet and the swan , (two one-act plays), Sommerhausen 1990
- The poet of silence , drama, Sommerhausen 1993
As a director (selection)
- Franz Werfel : The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1967)
- Marguerite Duras : Hiroshima, mon amour (1972)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Night Flight (1970)
- Arthur Schnitzler : The Wide Land (1974)
- Karl Kraus : The Last Days of Mankind (1974) (complete scenic realization in 45 episodes)
- Friederike Mayröcker : Bocca della Verità (1977)
- Gert Hofmann : The Flood (1980), awarded the Prix Italia of the RAI
As a radio play author
- Caprice , radio play, ORF 1963
- My sister in Paris , radio play, ORF 1965
- Real life , radio play, ORF 1969
- O sweet load , radio play, ORF 1971
Appreciations
- 1958 Schleussner-Schueller Prize from Hessischer Rundfunk for the best radio play production of the year
- 1966 The stage play "The Task" is selected from 80 pieces by the Theater der Josefstadt for the Wiener Festwochen.
- 1967 Promotion Prize for Literature from the City of Vienna
- 1969 State Prize for Television Games
- 1970 Small Austrian State Prize for Literature
- 1972 Award of the State of Lower Austria for poetry
- 1976 Awarded the professional title "Professor"
- 1980 Prix Italia (Premio della RAI)
- 1981 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 1982 Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria for Literature
- 1984 Golden Medal of Honor of the Austrian capital Vienna in gold
- 1988 Gold Medal for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
- 1988 Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria
- 1990 Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
- 1990 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
- 1991 Gold medal "1300 Years of Bulgaria"
- 1995 Franz Theodor Csoror Prize
literature
- Heinz Gerstinger : The playwright Hans Krendlesberger , Wagner Innsbruck 1988 ISBN 3-7030-0197-6 .
- The open labyrinth , dramas (the interview, the task, the question, the monsters), Wagner Innsbruck 1982, ISBN 978-3-7030-0110-9 .
Web links
- Entry on Hans Krendlesberger in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Literature by and about Hans Krendlesberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Theaterverlag Desch ( www.felix-bloch-orben.de )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Czeike, Felix: Historisches Lexikon Wien: in 6 volumes . Ed .: Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac. tape 6 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 111 .
- ↑ a b c ND archive: Neues Deutschland from August 17, 1982. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
- ^ History - Austrian Writers' Association. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Radio Play Studio: The 40 Days of Musa Dagh . Website Radio Ö1. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ Culture mirror. Professor Krendlesberger. Arbeiter-Zeitung, October 7, 1976, p. 18, bottom right [1]
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krendlesberger, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian television director, playwright, radio play author |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Scheibbs |
DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1995 |
Place of death | Vienna |