Hermann Naber

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Hermann Naber 1995 in a picture by the photographer Werner Bethsold .

Hermann Naber (born June 17, 1933 in Ochtrup ; † January 25, 2012 in Baden-Baden ) was a German radio play dramaturge and director as well as long-time head of the radio play department of Südwestfunk . Since 1977 Hermann Naber has been a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts , since 1989 a member of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin-Hansaviertel) .

Life

Hermann Naber studied German, English, journalism and philosophy in Münster and London. Freelance work for various daily newspapers ( Westdeutsche Allgemeine , Frankfurter Rundschau ), magazines ( film criticism , Frankfurter Hefte , Neue Deutsche Hefte ) and radio stations (WDR, HR).

Between 1962 and 1965, Naber was the dramaturge in the radio play department of the Hessischer Rundfunk. His first directorial work falls during this time: The loneliness of the long-distance runner by Alan Sillitoe (1964) and the first radio play adaptations: The Deputy of Rolf Hochhuth (HR 1963, Director: Erwin Piscator ) and The Investigation of Peter Weiss (1965, Director: Peter Schulze Pipe ). The latter was a joint production of the ARD, in which all radio play departments participated for the first time, as well as the Swiss radio DRS.

In 1965, Hermann Naber switched to Südwestfunk, where he was head of the radio play department until 1998, but also worked as a director and dramaturge. His authors included u. a. Ferdinand Kriwet , Gabriele Wohmann , Urs Widmer , Christian Geissler , Luc Ferrari , Gert Hoffmann , Barry Bermange , Günter Herburger , Antonio Skármeta , Ror Wolf . With Five Men People by Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker (dramaturgy and direction: Peter Michel Ladiges ), the trend-setting piece of the “New Radio Play” was produced in 1968 on the SWF. Large radio play series were also created under Naber's direction, including a. the second season of Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to All (SWF / BR 1991, directed by Hartmut Kirste ), Jostein Gaarders Sofies Welt (SWF / MDR 1995, directed by Hartmut Kirste) and The Lord of the Rings based on JRR Tolkien (SWF / WDR 1992, directed by Bernd Lau ).

As early as the late 1960s, Naber began to work on and stage the crime novels by Raymond Chandler as radio plays, and by the end of the 1990s more than 20 Chandler radio plays had been created (CD edition: Danger is your business: Best of Marlow & Co, DAV 2004).

From 1970 to 1998 Naber was secretary of the Karl Sczuka Prize for radio play as radio art, and between 1986 and 1992 he held a teaching position at the Department of Communication Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Hermann Naber, who has repeatedly dealt with the history of radio plays and the pioneers of radio art in his essays and several radio broadcasts, was in the tradition of the early radio play and radio makers like Friedrich Bischoff and was the idea of ​​public broadcasting as closely linked to an institution of culture and cultural mediation. His commitment to the art form of radio went beyond his direct work as a department head of Südwestfunk. Together with Ulrich Gerhardt he developed the week of the radio play at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, which he later continued in collaboration with Oliver Sturm and Hermann Bohlen .

His endeavor to make radio plays accessible outside of the radio broadcast led to the establishment of the radio play edition Cotta's Hörbühne in 1986 , of which he was editor until 1994:

“Amazingly (for the publisher) and happily (for me, because I foresaw this development), the demanding literary radio plays are among the frontrunners of the edition. They will determine the conception even more than before - that is also a valuable argument for the Discussion about the future of the radio play: it does not lie in the supposedly 'listener-friendly' junk, but in the best and most elaborate productions of radio play. "

- Hermann Naber to Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen , July 11, 1987.

In 1993 Naber's staging of the play Our Boat based on Bir Ould Brini by Christian Geissler was awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize. In 2005 Naber won the German Audio Book Prize in the entertainment category for the audio book Hazard is Your Business , an edition of ten of his radio play adaptations based on Raymond Chandler . Out of admiration for this writer, he made sure that almost all of Chandler's novels received radio play versions.

Naber was one of the co-founders of the Baden-Baden television film festival with his wife Lore . The film producer Milena Maitz and the director Johannes Naber are children of the couple.

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Radio plays (selection)

  • 1961 Today Ariadne has different names , director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (HR)
  • 1966 execution of a dead man , director: Dieter Munck (HR)
  • 1968 Cash please , directed by the author (SWF)
  • 1973 The Bumser three-channel crime thriller for listeners switching back and forth based on an idea by Georg Felsberg together with Werner Helmes , Hansjürgen Meyer , directed by the author (SWF)

Radio play features (selection)

  • 1979 10 years of radio play history - Karl Sczuka Prize 1969-1978 (SWF)
  • 1981 Friedrich Bischoff: pioneer of radio art (SWF)
  • 1985 Peter Zwetkoff - musician and contemporary with Hartmut Kirste , Hans Gerd Krogmann , Horst H. Vollmer , Gert Westphal , Urs Widmer
  • 1988 Chandler's secret - experiences of a radio play maker with the classic detective novel (DLF)
  • 1992 The secret inclinations of Max Ophüls - The film director as a radio play author (SWF)
  • 2000 The birth of the radio play from the spirit of the operetta. Karl Sczuka and the pioneers of radio art (SWF)
  • 2005 Ruttmann and consorts (DLF)

Radio play adaptations (selection)

Radio play editing and direction (selection)

Director (selection)

The Raymond Chandler range

  • 1969 Trouble with Pearls (SWF)
  • 1969 I'll wait (SWF)
  • 1970 keyword goldfish (SWF)
  • 1970 Hot Wind (SWF / WDR)
  • 1971 Heim zu Beulah (WDR)
  • 1972 target (WDR)
  • 1992 Murder in the Sage Gorge (WDR / BR)
  • 1973 The Pencil (WDR)
  • 1978 Danger is My Business (SWF)
  • 1980 No Crimes In The Mountains (SWF / HR)
  • 1983 Dead in the Lake (SWF)
  • 1984 A couple of writers (DLF / WDR)
  • 1986 Bay City Blues (SWF)
  • 1986 Murder in the Rain (SWF / HR)
  • 1988 The Man Who Loved Dogs (SWF / NDR)
  • 1990 Nevada Gas (SWF)
  • 1991 Controlled Game (SWF)
  • 1992 Spanish Blood (SWF)
  • 1993 The King in Yellow (SWF)
  • 1996 Too Sophisticated Murder (SWF)
  • 1998 street acquaintance (SWF)

Scripts

  • 1964 Memorial to an Enemy , based on the novel by George Barr , (Home Secretary's Screenplay Award)
  • 1985 Säntis , based on a radio play by Martin Walser , directed by Rainer Boldt (ZDF)
  • 1991 The Defense of Friedrichshafen , Lindauer Pietà , Help comes from Bregenz , Anger of a Goddess , The Ghost of Gattnau based on radio plays and stories by Martin Walser , directed by Hajo Gies (ZDF)

Publications

  • 1980 The author as producer , in: Traces of the New Radio Play, Ed. Klaus Schöning, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • 1980 Spiel und Experience , in: Entertainment on the radio, Volker-Spiess-Verlag 1980
  • 1989 Hear with your eyes, see with your ears , in: Max Ophüls, Film series, Hanser Verlag, Munich 1989
  • 1996 Music as Radio Play - Radio Play as Music , in: Spiegel der Neue Musik - Donaueschingen, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1996
  • 2000 The birth of the radio play from the spirit of the operetta , in: Akustische Spielformen, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2000
  • 2001 facts & fiction - A little journey into the past , in: Hörwelten - 50 years of the war blind's radio play award, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2001
  • 2006 Ruttmann & Konsorten - About the early relationships between radio play and film , in: Rundfunk und Geschichte, 32nd year, No. 3-4 / 2006

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28/29, 2012, p. 42.
  2. ↑ Long-time SWR radio play director Hermann Naber passed away on January 26, 2012 , Meedia
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28/29, 2012, p. 42.
  4. ^ German Audiobook Award 2005 in the category "Best Entertainment" , deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de, accessed April 2, 2019
  5. ↑ see Deutschlandfunk radio play magazine 4/2019 April 2, 2019
  6. ^ Naber-Film runs in Baden-Baden. In: Badisches Tagblatt from June 6, 2014
  7. ^ H. Naber trailblazer of contemporary radio play , accessed on April 2, 2019
  8. ^ Quartet by Heiner Müller , NDR Info January 6, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019
  9. ↑ Miss Smilla's feeling for snow , Deutschlandfunk February 9, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Naber, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German audio dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ochtrup
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2012
Place of death Baden-Baden