Hanuš burger

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Hanuš Burger , also known as Hans (Herbert) Burger and Jan Burger and under the pseudonym Hans Herbert and the code name Petr Hradec , (born June 4, 1909 in Prague ( Crown Land of Bohemia ), † November 13, 1990 in Munich ) was a theater -, film and television director , dramaturge and author of plays, books and scripts.

Life

Burger moved to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s . After working from 1931 to 1932 in Hamburg as an assistant director, dramaturge and stage designer and a member of the collective of the Hamburg actor, he returned because of the political situation in the 1932 Third Reich in Czechoslovakia back.

There he worked until 1936 as a director, dramaturge and stage designer in the New German Theater in Prague, which was led by Paul Eger at the time. There he staged a. a. the play Bessie Bosch , which was written by Johannes Wüsten . The two main roles were filled with Fritta Brod and Erich Freund. During his work for the Prague Urania he was occasionally used as a courier by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . After he first went to Austria and then returned to Czechoslovakia, the American journalist Herbert Kline commissioned him to make a documentary about the situation in the Sudeten regions after the German occupation. The result of this contract was the film Crisis .

At the end of 1938, Burger fled Czechoslovakia. He came to the USA via France, where he taught at Lee Strasberg's theater school in New York and shot other documentaries. In 1941 he joined the armed forces of the USA, where he later became a member of a department within the Staff Group for Propaganda and Psychological Warfare (P&PW Detachment) of the 12th Army Group, which was to publish German newspapers. This department was headed by Hans Habe from autumn 1944 . At Radio Luxemburg , Burger was later mainly responsible as director for the station 1212 , which had also started operations in 1944. It was a US propaganda station that was part of Operation Annie .

He then made a film, that of German concentration camps acted and Death Mills said before he later in New York City for the documentary program director at the United Nations was.

Now he was first examined in the USA within the Committee to Combat “Un-American Activities” , returned to Prague and there was a target of the Stalinist purges and the consequences of the Prague Spring because of his emigration . He was appointed senior director of Prague Children's Television. After signing the 2000 Word Manifesto in 1968 , he fled to the West again that year, this time to Munich. By leaving the Eastern Bloc he became a " non-person " for the KPČ. In Munich he continued his work for film and television.

Works

theatre

  • Our leg damage, time-critical review in three parts. Based on a play by JM Prigge, directed by Hans Burger, collective Hamburg actor, guest performance at the Volksoper Hamburg, May 1932
  • Tom Sawyer's great adventure. A radio play adaptation by Burger and Heym, directed by Heiner Möbius, was recorded in 1962; all rights to the radio broadcast and the public performance are owned by the henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin.
  • 1954: Hanuš Burger with Stefan Heym based on Mark Twain : Tom Sawyer's great adventure - Director: Josef Stauder ( Theater of Friendship )
  • 1962: Hanuš Burger with Stefan Heym: Tom Sawyer's great adventure - Director: Hanuš Burger (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1964: Hanuš Burger: La Farola - Director: Kurt Rabe (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1965: Molière : Scapin's crooks - directed by Hanuš Burger (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1966: Heinz Kahlau : The fairy tale of the Therese tram - Director: Hanuš Burger (Theater of Friendship)

Books

  • Spring was worth it . Autobiography, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1977
  • 1212 sends . Factual novel. German military publisher, Berlin 1965

Filmography (selection)

  • 1933: The Adjutant to His Highness , Czechoslovakia, screenplay, feature film
  • 1938: Crisis ( Crisis ), USA (Director: Herbert Kline), co-directed with Alexander Hackenschmied , Documentary
  • 1939: Boogie, Woogie dream , USA, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1940: Portrait of a library , USA, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1942: It happened here , director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1942: Education for tomorrow , USA, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1944: Kill or be killed , USA, director, US Army training film
  • 1946: Death Mills ( Death mills ), D-US zone, Director, Documentary
  • 1947: Clearing the way , USA, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1947: First Steps , Canada, director, documentary, Oscar 1948
  • 1948: Knowledge is Power ( Saber es poder ), Mexico, screenplay, co-director, documentary
  • 1951: The economic comrades from P., ČSR, direction, screenplay, template, documentary
  • 1952: A day in kindergarten, ČSR, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1953: The Song of the Road, ČSR, director, template, screenplay, commentary (?), Documentary
  • 1954: A Sunday rendevous, ČSR, director, screenplay, template, documentary film
  • 1955: The starting point ( Východisko ), ČSR, direction, screenplay, template, feature film
  • 1955: The Sportsman and the Doctor, ČSR, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1955: Der Winder ( Zima ), ČSR, director, screenplay, documentary
  • 1956: Working through play ( Hrou ku práci ), ČSR, director, screenplay, documentary film
  • 1956: Attention, I'm driving ( Pozor, jedu ...! ), ČSR, director
  • 1957: The clique does not reveal? / The gang does not reveal? ( Parta nezradí ...? ), ČSR, direction, screenplay, template, feature film
  • 1959: The Trust, ČSR, direction, screenplay, template
  • 1961: The Arctic Ocean is calling, ČSSR, direction, screenplay, technical screenplay
  • 1965: Nothing but Sin, GDR, director, screenplay, template: “Was ihr wollt” by William Shakespeare
  • 1976: Tatort: ​​Fortuna III Tatort - episode 064, FRG, original, first broadcast: June 7, 1976

interview

  • Hanuš Burger: But nothing, the connection came and I had to leave Vienna. In: Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (ed.): Departure into the Unknown. Volume 1: Austrian filmmakers who emigrated before 1945. Wespennest, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85458-503-9 , pp. 189–196, (interview on February 13, 1989).

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personal data
SURNAME Burger, Hanuš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hans (Herbert); Burger, Jan; Herbert, Hans; Hradec, Petr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German theater, film and television director, dramaturge and author of plays, books and scripts
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1990
Place of death Munich