Hans Schaarwächter
Hans August Schaarwächter (born February 22, 1901 in Barmen ; † February 12, 1984 in Cologne ) was a German journalist , writer and actor .
Life
Schaarwächter, great-nephew of the photographer Julius Schaarwächter and nephew of the Berlin court photographer Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter , grew up in Barmen. After an apprenticeship as an accountant, he moved to Düsseldorf , where he was a long-time member of the daily newspaper Der Mittag , especially in the feature section. He was also a member of the Kom (m) ödchen cabaret , for which he also wrote various skits, and was a guest at the Simpl cabaret in Munich . In 1927 he married Gertrud Millies (1904-2001), with whom he had two children, Georg (1929-2018) and Gerda (* 1938).
From 1939 to 1941 he was a dramaturge at the Schauspiel Köln before he was drafted into military service. At first he served as a lighthouse keeper on the Danish border, but was then forcibly transferred to Lake Como as an auxiliary customs assistant due to subversive behavior. After the Second World War he initially stayed in Italy; Giorgio Strehler arranged for the premiere of his drama The Mourning of the Altea in 1947 in the Piccola Scala in Milan .
After his return to Germany, he resumed his journalistic activities.
He gained notoriety as a film critic (he was chairman of the German Film Club ) and was one of the first regular reporters for the Berlin International Film Festival . For a short time Schaarwächter was a dramaturge at the Hänneschen Theater in Cologne .
Plays
Hans Schaarwächter's writers have accompanied Hans Schaarwächter throughout his life - he wrote plays with a wide variety of subjects, from comedies ( The undressed shirt , Petra and the model , Der Herr auf Hochglanz , Der Max ) to seemingly surrealistic works ( Am Kraterrand ) to numerous dramas in which he processed his war experiences ( The end of the Reith family , The last house , The civilian should , The thrown , Ubalda, save Ugo! ). The wedding bed follows the tradition of classical Greek comedy, The Mourning of the Altea and The Triumph of the Altea of Greek Tragedy. Bathing a Horse was published as a serial noon before the Second World War .
Fonts
- I love Hans. A. Strauch, Leipzig 1941
- Your salvation in the bathroom. Droste, Düsseldorf 1959
literature
- Gisela Schmoeckel: Always ready to jump in life. Journalist Hans Schaarwächter was a friend of the Wupper artists. In: Bergischer Almanach 1993. Wuppertal 1992, pp. 7-13
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Schaarwächter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans August Schaarwächter Portal u. a. on Hans Schaarwächter including a complete list of the dramas and numerous texts of various kinds in full text.
notes
- ↑ Meant is the "Comradely Association of Young Barmer Painters - The Wupper" around Walter Gerber, Kurt Nantke , Richard Paling , Ferdinand Röntgen from the 1920s. In the exhibition catalog Bohême an der Wupper from 1992, Bergisches Museum im Schloss Burg , there is a portrait of Schaarwächter, Fig. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaarwächter, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaarwächter, Hans August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1984 |
| Place of death | Cologne |