Hans Krendlesberger

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Hans Krendlesberger 1985
Hans Krendlesberger 1985

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)

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

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c ND archive: Neues Deutschland from August 17, 1982. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ History - Austrian Writers' Association. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Radio Play Studio: The 40 Days of Musa Dagh . Website Radio Ö1. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  5. ^ Culture mirror. Professor Krendlesberger. Arbeiter-Zeitung, October 7, 1976, p. 18, bottom right [1]
personal data
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