Hanskarl Hoerning

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Hanskarl Hoerning (born December 28, 1931 in Leipzig ) is a German author, actor and cabaret artist.

Live and act

Hoerning spent his childhood and youth in Leipzig- Sellerhausen , where he attended the 19th elementary school from 1938 to 1942. He then switched to the Nikolaischule , where he graduated from high school in 1950. In addition to teaching, Hoerning was a member of the school theater group that performed his first work, a homecoming drama. He also appeared as Moliere's "Miser" and Lessing's "Young Scholar".

For a short time he worked as a painter's assistant before he studied at the Musikhochschule in 1950/51 and at the Leipzig Drama School in 1951/53. During his studies he participated in the cabaret "Die Stichlinge". A first engagement at the Junge Garde theater in Halle (Saale) followed. There he initiated the founding of the cabaret "In Teufels Küche". During his activity as an actor at the Volkstheater Halberstadt from 1954 to 1956 he founded the cabaret "Halberstädter Würstchen" with his colleague Klaus Mertens . After guest appearances in Stassfurt and a short debut at the theater in Eisleben, he switched to the radio cabaret “Tandaradei” in the 1956/57 season, which only existed for a year and a half. He worked for the Leipziger Pfeffermühle from 1958 as an author and actor until 1997. He supervised amateur groups, taught cabaret history at the adult education center, wrote with Jürgen Hart a. a. for the series "jokes" texts, performed his program "Der Brettldozent" and the "Cabaret am Naschmarkt". He was the editor of the culture magazine Treffpunkt Leipzig and the newly published humor magazine Der (kleine) Drache . In 1988 he honored Wolfgang Neuss in a staged reading. From 2001 to 2005 he appeared in a program in memory of Edwin Bormann .

Since 1999 Hoerning has also been writing as a freelance author for the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter .

Works

  • "A work of art", based on Anton Chekhov , premiered at the Leipzig Drama School in 1953
  • "Zimmerkomödie", television play (music: Klaus Fehmel ), 1960 DFF
  • "A work of art", TV play based on Chekhov, 1962 DFF
  • "Go where the pepper grows" - Three decades of mill grinding, Henschel-Verlag Berlin 1984
  • "Not worth a chanterelle?", Mushroom stories, VEB Gustav-Fischer-Verlag Jena 1989 a. 1990, ISBN 3-334-00326-4
  • "Harlekin im Stasiland", Report, Bleicher Verlag Gerlingen 1994, ISBN 3-88350-104-2
  • "Resin stations", travel report, Tauchaer Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-910074-42-1
  • "May they do that" (with Harald Pfeifer as author and editor), Forum Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-931801-47-0
  • "In the sign of the mushroom" - memories of a pepper miller , Sachsenbuch-Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-89664-023-2
  • "The Leipziger Pfeffermühle" - stories and pictures from five decades, Lehmstedt Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-937146-11-3
  • "Growing up in ruins" - childhood and youth of a Leipzig pepper miller, Pro leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-936508-38-3
  • "Dear Mr. Representative" (with Wolfgang Eckert) Eulenspiegel Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-359-02216-9
  • "What are you, and if not, how long?" - Literature cabaret, Passage-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-938543-85-6
  • "Der Schwejk von Katharinenberg" - From the life of Gerd Voigt, self-published by Engelsdorfer Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-416-2
  • "1989 or How I Missed the Revolution", self-published by Engelsdorfer Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-95744-171-3
  • "Rampenfieber" - memory of Leipzig's post-war cabaret, Pro Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-945027-17-2
  • "... and facing the future?" - Memories 1954 to 1972, Pro Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-945027-26-4