Helmut Hellstorff

Helmut Hellstorff (born May 9, 1923 in Nieder-Lindewiese , Czechoslovakia) is a German radio play director and actor.

Life

Helmut Hellstorff completed his training as an actor in Vienna and Brno before making his theater debut in Mährisch-Ostrau in 1941 . After 1945 he started working as a stage and radio worker in Hamburg. Finally he moved to Schwerin in 1948 , later to Eisenach and from 1954 to East Berlin .

Hellstorff is one of the most productive radio play directors of the former GDR radio station at the State Committee for Radio and Television. He was active there for about 35 years. According to HörDat , he was involved in over 200 productions that were carried out between 1956 and 1991, the year when the GDR radio station succeeded it.

In the 1960s, in addition to directing, he also acted as an actor in television plays and films. Among other things, he participated in Police Call 110 . He is married to the actress Sabine Hellstorff (graduate of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art. Participation in numerous theater, radio, film and TV productions).

Filmography

• 1962: The bald gang
• 1966: Trick 17b
• 1967: The Timo Rinnelt case
• 1990: Police Call 110: The Death of the Pelican (TV series)

Theater (direction)

• 1959: Werner Heiduczek : Jule finds friends - ( Theater of Friendship )

Radio plays and features

Director

• 1955: Zdzislaw Skowronski / Josef Slotwinski : The director's birthday (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1958: Gerhard Stübe : The first word (radio of the GDR)
• 1980: Mikhail Bulgakov : The Cabal of the Hypocrites (Charron) (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1960: Bernhard Seeger : Paradies im Krähenwinkel (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1960: Joachim Goll : A doctor on the go (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1961: Ferenc Taar : The battle in Veréb-Gasse (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1961: Käte Seelig : As he likes it (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1961: Karl-Heinrich Bonn : Nocturnal visit (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1962: Rolf Schneider : November 25th. New York (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1963: Rolf Gumlich / Ralph Knebel : interim balance (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1963: Manfred Bieler : Night Watch (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1964: Ephraim Kishon : Der Blaumilchkanal (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1964: Fred von Hoerschelmann : Die Saline (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1965: Ján Solovič : It will be midnight in five minutes (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1965: Rolf Schneider: Company Plate-Rack (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1967: Leonid Leonow : Professor Skutarewski (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1968: Day Keene / Warren Brand : Naked Fury (crime radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1969: Dimitar Gulew : On the way to the other bank (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1969: Wolfgang Kohlhaase : Questions to a photo (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1970: Finn Havrevold : Disaster (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1970: Michail Schatrow : The sixth of July (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1970: Hans-Ulrich Lüdemann : Trial without judgment (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1970: Emil Manow : Der Mandelzweig (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1971: Zofia Posmysz : Ave Maria (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1971: Bruno Gluchowski : Stahl von der Ruhr (radio play based on "Bloody Steel" (3 parts) - GDR radio)
• 1972: Afanassi Salynski : Maria (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1972: Pawel Geordiadi : The sun over the minaret (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1972: Kai Himmelstrup : The Dandelions (radio play (2 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1973: Paul Everac : Die Mitgift (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1974: Ján Milczák : The Last Three (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1974: Jeremi Przybora : The lady and her little dog Tesoriono (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1976: Rodney David Wingfield : On a commission basis (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1977: Carlos Coutinho : The last week before the festival (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1981: Giorgio Bandini : Our inhuman house (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1984: Ran Bossilek / Maria Georgiewa : Goltscho-habenichts (children's radio play - radio of the GDR)

speaker

• 1964: Horst Grothe : Men of Honor - 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial ( Feature - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1967: Wolfgang Rödel : Encounter in the Palas - (speaking role: Heinrich Heine ) (Feature - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1970: William Shakespeare : Othello - Director: Gert Andreae (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1971: Heinrich Mann : The Completion of the King Henri Quatre - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1978: Erika Runge : The metamorphoses of a hardworking, always reliable and ultimately inconspicuous chief secretary - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1979: Horst Berensmeier : ransom - director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1980: Lia Pirskawetz : Stille Post - Director: Horst Liepach (Biography - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1981: Joachim Priewe : Heinrich Vogeler (intelligence officer) - Director: Barbara Plensat (biography - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1991: Gerhard Rentzsch : Scenes from Germany, introduced and provided with interim reports on the journey of a man with a cardboard box - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play series: Moments No. 4 - DS Kultur / BR)

Awards

• 1974 GDR Art Prize

Web links

• Helmut Hellstorff at filmportal.de
• Helmut Hellstorff in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
2. ^ Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964–1991 . 2nd edition Berlin: Askylt, 1999, p. 9. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 ( digitized in the Google book search)
3. ^ Winner of the GDR Art Prize 1974 , In: Neues Deutschland , June 20, 1974, p. 4