Helga Mauersberger

Helga Mauersberger, 2015 in Studio Hamburg with Günter Elste

Helga Mauersberger (* 1931 in Eisenach , Thuringia ) is a German journalist and film producer .

Life

Helga Mauersberger is the daughter of the Thomaskantor Erhard Mauersberger . She completed a degree in music history, German and psychology in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz. She then worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Neue Presse and for Der Spiegel, among others .

From 1955 Helga Mauersberger initially worked as a reporter for the TV regional magazine and for six years as the head of the editorial team for the television family program for Hessischer Rundfunk . There she developed and supervised formats such as B. the Augsburger Puppenkiste with Jim Button and the West German sandman show .

In 1962, Helga Mauersberger switched to the North German Broadcasting Corporation , where she was responsible for film purchasing and in 1963 was in charge of the editorial team for early evening series. In this role she was responsible for over 30 series, including the German-French-Japanese co-production Polizeifunk ruft , the series Hafenpolizei , Gestatten, my name is Cox , the series Onkel Bräsig, based on a model by Fritz Reuter, with Stanislav Barabáš as director, Gertrud Stranitzki and Ida Rogalski with Inge Meysel in the lead role, as well as Parisian stories based on Eugène Labiche with Dieter Wedel in the direction.

From 1979 to 1991 Helga Mauersberger was managing director of Studio Hamburg Atelier GmbH with the production, dubbing and program sales division. During her tenure, she made films such as Das Heimweh des Walerian Wrobe l by Rolf Schübel , An End of War after Siegfried Lenz , Lesmona by Peter Beauvais , the documentary A Man and His City with and about Helmut Schmidt , as well as series such as Großstadtrevier and the crime series The men from K3 .

Mauersberger has been working as a freelance script consultant since 1991. a. TV series by producer Wolfgang Rademann for Polyphon-GmbH such as Das Traumschiff , Engel der Gerechtigkeit und Kreuzfahrt ins Glück . Between 1991 and 1993 she was largely responsible for the integration of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk into the ARD evening program.

Political and social engagement

Helga Mauersberger is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and founder of the media working group on the state board of the SPD Hamburg, which she headed for many years. She was a deputy of the Hamburg Authority for Economics, Transport and Innovation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hamburg Library. Until 2015, Helga Mauersberger was a member of the supervisory board of the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund . As chairwoman of the Bildungswerk Medien eV she was responsible for the inclusion of numerous media professions in the dual training system as well as for the establishment of the Animation School Hamburg. In addition, Helga Mauersberger was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Hamburg State Opera for over 20 years and led the Hamburg Authors' Seminar together with Gyula Trebitsch .

family

The Thomaskantor Erhard Mauersberger was her father, the Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger her uncle. In 2007 the book Dresdner Kreuzchor und Thomanerchor Leipzig, edited by Helga Mauersberger, was published . Two cantors and their time - Rudolf and Erhard Mauersberger. Helga Mauersberger lives and works in Hamburg.

Web links

• Helga Mauersberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Helga Mauersberger on whoswho.de