Harry Moss

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Harry Moss (also: Harry Moß ; June 3, 1886 in Stade ; date of death unknown) was a German actor , drama director, Gaufach advisor for drama at the Gauleitung Südhannover-Braunschweig, radio director, officer and television director .

Life

Born in Stade during the founding of the German Empire , he studied art and theater history after attending the secondary school there . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, but was seriously wounded as a lieutenant in the reserve .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic he joined after 1918 as an actor, including in Berlin in the ensemble of Max Reinhardt , but also during a guest game in New York at the Rotter stages .

Harry Moss joined the NSDAP as early as 1928 . Around three years later he founded the National Socialist theater organization NS-Bühne . “[…] Due to mental instability”, however, on January 7, 1932, his acting license was revoked. Nevertheless, he took over in September of the same year the management of the previously Ewald Schindler in bankruptcy previous Deutsches Theater in Hannover . But this activity ended in the following year when the theater was closed.

Also after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, Harry Moss was temporary as the new head of the Municipal Theater provided Hanover, but was instead first Gaufachberater in its management of Gaus Südhannover Brunswick . In August 1933, Moss was finally appointed - as the successor to Otto Ebel von Sosen - to head the NORAG subsidiary station in Hanover .

Harry Moss only worked for a little more than a year at NORAG, was dismissed in Hanover in 1935, and then worked in Königsberg under the artistic director Alfred Lau both as broadcast manager and chairman of the radio department and at the same time as deputy Laus.

When the position of the broadcasting manager there remained vacant at the Reichssender Hamburg from November 1938 to March 1939, Moss moved there for a few months on April 1, 1939, after the beginning of the Second World War as broadcasting manager at the Berlin headquarters of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft , where he worked with Martin Schönicke from the beginning of 1942 .

After Herbert Engler left on April 20, 1943, since 1939 director of the television station Paul Nipkow , which also broadcasts from Berlin , the "[...] old deserved broadcaster" took over as the fourth and last - provisional - director of the Berlin broadcasting station . But despite this position, Harry Moss also played “[...] only a marginal figure” there. The tasks at Nipkow were limited more to representation than to intellectual achievement, especially since creativity was hardly required with the introduction of standard television.

literature

  • Lilian-Dorette Rimmele: Radio in Northern Germany 1933-1945 (= dissertations in the humanities and social sciences , vol. 41), also dissertation 1977 at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg: Lüdke, 1977, ISBN 3-920588-44-4 ; passim ; Preview over google books
  • Reimar Hollmann : From the Hannoversche Rundfunkgeschichte , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): 60 years of broadcasting in Hanover. 1924-1984 , accompanying document to the exhibition 60 Years of Radio in Hanover in the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer , Hanover: Historisches Museum, 1984, pp. 32–71
  • Klaus Winkler: TV under the swastika. Organization, program, staff (= media in past and present , vol. 1), also dissertation 1994 at the University of Mainz, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-412-03594-7 , p. 415f. u.ö .; Preview over google books
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , 175f. u.ö.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Moss, Harry in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  2. ↑ a b c Lilian-Dorette Rimmele: Radio in Northern Germany 1933 - 1945 (= dissertations in the humanities and social sciences , vol. 41), also dissertation 1977 at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg: Lüdke, 1977, ISBN 3-920588-44- 4 ; passim ; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen : Moss, Harry , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 261
  4. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Winkler: Television under the swastika. Organization, program, staff (= media in past and present , vol. 1), also dissertation 1994 at the University of Mainz, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-412-03594-7 , p. 415f. u.ö .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Moss, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Must, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, National Socialist theater and radio director and television director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH 20th century