Hans Langmaack (actor)

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Hans Langmaack (born September 30, 1870 , † March 11, 1949 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , radio play speaker , director , reciter , acting and school teacher .

Life

Langmaack was one of the founders of the Low German language movement well before the First World War . He was a pioneer in this field and made the Low German dialect socially acceptable, which had not been highly respected until then. As a reciter, he performed the works of Low German poets in countless lectures.

At an early age he came into contact with Richard Ohnsorg , who had founded a stage in Hamburg on Gänsemarkt in 1902 that was primarily devoted to Low German poetry. The Hamburg Dramatic Society , which later became the Ohnsorg Theater , has now become his artistic home, and the lecture artist has also become an actor. Just like his colleagues Otto Lüthje and Walther Bullerdiek , Langmaack was a school teacher full-time and, as far as was known, did not give up this activity.

As early as 1924, Ohnsorg and his ensemble went to the microphones of the Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG). Langmaack was also there from the beginning, both as a reciter and as a speaker and later also as a director, in predominantly dialect broadcast games, as the radio plays were still called at the time. The play De Fährkrog by Hermann Boßdorf has been recorded as one of the first productions in the ARD radio play archive . Other speakers included Richard Ohnsorg, Magda Bäumken and Aline Bußmann . Langmaack himself also made a comment on the broadcast. The broadcast took place on September 24, 1924 live without recording. On November 27th of the same year he was in Goethe's Faust II. Part alongside Ernst Sattler (Faust), Erna Kroll-Lange , Hermann Wlach , Karl Pündter and other speakers in three roles ( Kaiser , Chiron and Lynceus, the tower guard ) in a High German To hear broadcast game.

In addition, he also worked as an acting teacher for many years. Heidi Kabel and Robert Meyn were among the numerous people he taught .

Langmaack died of a stroke on March 11, 1949 . The following day one could read the following in an obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt : The claim that the name Langmaack will remain inextricably linked to the Low German cause is not an exaggeration of the necrology. When the young Hamburg schoolboy began to advertise Low German poetry with lecture evenings, he was very alone. He filled innumerable people for the disregarded "dialect" with the same love that drove him to serve his mission without concession for five decades. In truth, he was a pioneer, without whom the revival of the Low German drama triggered by Richard Ohnsorg's stage is hardly conceivable. As an actor and director, in front of the radio microphone and as a speaking teacher, Langmaack was able to broaden the work that was pioneered at the beginning of the century to an extent never expected.

Radio plays

As speaker:

Note: The radio plays between 1927 and 1945 (end of the war) have currently (September 2015) not yet been recorded in the ARD radio play archive. His directorial work apparently fell into this period.

Recitation on the radio

  • 1949: Hans Langmaack reads Low German poems - Editing and direction: Hans Freundt

The recording, which was made shortly before his death at NWDR Hamburg , is still preserved.

literature

  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch: Theater-historical year and address book. - 58th year - Berlin: Cooperative of German Stage Members , 1950
  • ARD radio play archive: All information about the radio plays

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The trailblazer. From: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 12, 1949, about Langmaack, who died the day before
  2. ↑ Sound archive of the North German Broadcasting Corporation upon telephone request
personal data
SURNAME Langmaack, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play speaker, director, reciter, acting and school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1870
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1949
Place of death Hamburg