Harry Kruger-York

Harry Krüger-York at work at his desk in Bad Aibling

Harry Krüger-York (born December 21, 1901 in Barth as Harry Max Benno Krüger ; † November 2, 1985 in Widdersberg , Upper Bavaria ) was a German writer, playwright , journalist and press photographer. He wrote plays - including for the Low German Stage in Hamburg - and radio plays in Low German . He published Heimatromane under the pseudonym Andreas Stephan .

Life

Harry Krüger was born as the son of Captain Max Krüger and his wife Maria in Barth , in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He left his home country at the age of 18 to study at the film school in Munich. At this time he met his future wife Anna Niedermeier. At first he lived with his wife in Munich, later in Hamburg and then in Berlin. The marriage produced three daughters.

In the twenties Krüger-York worked for newspapers and magazines and, with increasing success, wrote plays in the Low German language. He later got a permanent position at the "Berlin Press Image Center". One of his plays, Heekt mang de Karpen ( The pike in the carp pond), was performed for the first time in Hamburg's Ohnsorg Theater . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and stationed in History of Finland # Finland in World War II .

After a short English captivity, he returned to his family in 1945, who had sought refuge from the bombing of Berlin in Altötting in Upper Bavaria . There, and from 1948 in Bad Aibling , he again wrote plays that were translated and adapted by his wife for performance on Bavarian farmers' stages . The pieces were initially published by himself.

In order to secure the livelihood of his family, Krüger-York took a job at the Upper Bavarian Volksblatt in Rosenheim and wrote until the end of his life a. a. Radio plays for Bavarian radio, entertainment literature and poems in dialect and in standard German.

Fonts

• Hect to de Karpen. 'n lütten messes from de Waterkant in 3 Uptöög. Mahnke, Verden 1938.
• De blackmail. Kummödi in 3 upt. Mahnke, Verden 1940
• Vertruunslüüd. 'n lütt funny Spill in 3 Uptöög. Bad Aibling 1946.
• De rode cap. A fair comedy. Mahnke, Verden 1951
• Kikeriki. Kumedi in 3 trips. Mahnke, Verden 1955.
• The legacy of the Wiesholler. Berg-Roman, Widukind, Balve iW 1957.
• The bad guy from the Ödhof. Berg-Roman, Widukind, Balve iW 1958.
• The Sonnleitnerhof. Berg-Roman, Widukind, Balve iW 1958.
• De rode cap. Comedy in three Uptöög. Mahnke, Verden 1960.
• The suffering of Anna Luger. Lore-Romane No. 650, Marken, Darmstadt 1961.

Radio plays

• 1950: Streek dör de Reken - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg ( RB )
• 1951: De Fundunnerslagung - Director: Werner Perrey , with Walter Scherau , Erna Raupach-Petersen , Hilde Sicks , Erwin Wirschaz , Heidi Kabel and Heinz Lanker ( NWDR Hamburg )
• 1953: Dat Jubelpaar - Director: Hans Freundt , with Georg Pahl , Magda Bäumken , Ingeborg Walther , Heinz Lanker, Walter Scherau, Elisabeth Wolf and Ludwig Meybert (NWDR Hamburg)
• 1954: Traces in the Snee! - Direction: Günter Jansen , with Hartwig Sievers , Liesel Pockrandt , Erna Raupach-Petersen, Heinz Lanker, Rudolf Beiswanger , Hilde Sicks, Otto Lüthje , Heini Kaufeld and others (NWDR Hamburg)
• 1959: Tracks in the snow - Director: Walter Netzsch , with Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Maria Stadler , Ulrich Beiger , Elisabeth Biebel , Michl Lang , Fritz Straßner , Erik Jelde , Gusti Kreissl and others ( BR )

literature

• Kruger-York, Harry . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 247.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Stephan (pseudonym) in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harry Krüger-York in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)